How to Use angry young man in a Sentence
angry young man
noun-
Of course, angry young men will still kill people, with pickup trucks, knives, sticks and fists.
—Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2019
-
The teachers who met James Earl Ray as a boy saw a proud, angry young man suffering from neglect.
—Héctor Tobar, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
-
Or it could be tucked into the waistband of an angry young man and used in another homicide.
—Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 1 Feb. 2018
-
Moses’s outfit is darker and dirtier, which is a spot-on look for this angry young man.
—Marilyn Stasio, Variety, 22 Aug. 2021
-
The abused 8-year-old is suddenly the blasé college student; the angry young man is soon the emotional dropout, nearly as bad as his father and halfway pickled in gin.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2020
-
At the time, however, critics and listeners mostly found the band insane—four angry young men brazenly wrecking themselves in service of who knows what.
—Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
-
The suggestion that lost, angry young men might do better to channel their energies towards basic grooming and life skills is not an unhelpful one.
—Laurie Penny, Longreads, 12 July 2018
-
The shooting Friday evening sparked protests in Mogadishu that continued Saturday with crowds of angry young men burning tires and demanding justice.
—Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 26 Apr. 2020
-
His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk, a vulnerable and angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a military colonel.
—Travis Bean, Forbes, 10 June 2022
-
To understand the gap between how Nitram saw himself versus how others perceived the inarticulate, angry young man, Kurzel assigned Jones tasks: film himself with a video camera, doodle in a diary.
—New York Times, 1 Apr. 2022
-
Fellow student Thomas has graduated into an angry young man, critical of his father and overbearing toward his sister.
—Malcolm Forbes Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 18 Dec. 2020
Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'angry young man.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.
Last Updated: