How to Use whippersnapper in a Sentence
whippersnapper
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And there may be clams around cold seeps or on the Antarctic sea bottom that make Ming look like a whippersnapper.
—Steven N. Austad, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2022
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Trains make all these cars look like whippersnappers; fellow Hall member Lionel Trains dates all the way back to 1900.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 12 Nov. 2019
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That whippersnapper, in other words, would look fly af.
—Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 6 Mar. 2018
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In modern-day literature, whippersnappers who wouldn't know a mule from a hole in the ground are killing mules by the caravan.
—Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2011
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In modern-day literature, whippersnappers who wouldn't know a mule from a hole in the ground are killing mules by the caravan.
—Southern Living, 1 May 2017
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The day is fast approaching when Tiger Woods and Brooks Koepka will be chasing these whippersnappers at majors, not leading the way.
—Tad Reeve, Twin Cities, 6 July 2019
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The space is now occupied by the flagship of Hackett, a company that is a relative whippersnapper at 37 years old.
—David Segal, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2020
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Saturday, the Sharks were finished off by an Oilers’ squad of young whippersnappers, many of whom had never been involved in any postseason games.
—Mark Purdy, The Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2017
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Cook, 32, acknowledges that most young whippersnappers just don’t print out photos as part of their regular routine.
—Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2018
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Now stop being such an ungrateful whippersnapper, and call your grandma.
—Courtney Shea, refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2020
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Help impart some old-school championship lessons on his young whippersnapper teammates.
—Evan Grant, Dallas News, 25 Mar. 2021
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The makeup artist turned beauty-brand entrepreneur is an undeniable legend — a luminary in a way that a teen TikTok whippersnapper could only hope to be.
—Marci Robin, Allure, 9 Mar. 2022
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A bunch of West Coast whippersnappers go into your site, figure out when your customers are spending money, tell a robot to take additional amounts out regularly and then invest the money someplace else.
—Ron Lieber, New York Times, 6 May 2016
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There are certainly octogenarians who are physically fit, sharp as a tack, and as competent at work as any whippersnapper.
—Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Oct. 2017
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Would this shirtless whippersnapper rob Timothée of his title?
—Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2018
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For a relative whippersnapper (he’s 38), Reihan Salam has been writing about the relationship between the Republican Party’s policy agenda and its electoral coalition for a long time.
—Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 1 May 2018
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In many of the most popular clips, these whippersnappers engage in adultlike conversations, amusingly given their babyish voices.
—Katherine Rosman, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2017
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