How to Use angry young man in a Sentence

angry young man

noun

• Dissatisfied with the allocation of resources, these angry young men are prone to join urban riots, for example.
  — Mohammad Ali Kadivar, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2019
• 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

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024