How to Use youth in a Sentence

youth

noun

• She had a troubled youth.
• He got into a lot of trouble in his youth.
• He spent his youth in the Midwest.
• Four youths are suspected of starting the fire.
• Of course, the fountain of youth is an age-old dream for our species too.
  — Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Jan. 2023
• But his church asked him to be their part-time youth pastor.
  — Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2023
• Now, dozens of youth from the area come to the Y's gym to play basketball three days each week.
  — Bailey Loosemore, The Courier-Journal, 25 Aug. 2022
• Kian Tanner, one of the 16 youth plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said in a statement.
  — WIRED, 19 Aug. 2023
• Spencer is a cis, straight white guy, and he’s been my closest friend since our youth.
  — Kelsey Smoot, refinery29.com, 8 Jan. 2023
• With his youth come some unique challenges for Mr. Frost.
  — Stephanie Lai, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
• Knox coached the youth football team that uses the park to practice and play games.
  — Fox19, The Enquirer, 21 Oct. 2022
• In this novel, the wounds of youth are carried for a lifetime.
  — Isaac Fitzgerald, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2022
• By the end of its first decade in business, the Palms’ youth hotspot status had begun to wane.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
• Well, [Pete] Townshend tapped into the feeling of the youth at the time.
  — Hannah Ewens, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2022
• For me, it’s kind of wrapped up in nostalgia, and in the idealism of youth.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 31 July 2022
• Most of the stays are short, but some youth stay a year or more while their cases work through the court system.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 7 May 2024
• The way these boots and slippers had a grip on American youth...
  — Meg Donohue, ELLE, 6 Sep. 2022
• Forty-one youths have been shot and survived this year in Kansas City.
  — Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 26 Apr. 2024
• Once, Schureman went to watch Reynolds play a youth football game.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 21 Oct. 2022
• Most people who officiate youth and high school sports do it for the love of the game.
  — The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug. 2022
• The track, which goes into the mind of a homicidal youth named Robert, is the group’s most successful song to date.
  — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 29 Nov. 2023
• Many artists have studied and still live in Hangzhou, and there is a vibrant youth culture scene.
  — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 3 Oct. 2024
• The agency deemed that the benefit to adult smokers looking to quit outweighed the risks to youths.
  — David Ovalle and Rachel Roubein The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 2 Dec. 2024
• That means China now has about 21 million jobless youth in cities and towns.
  — Laura He, CNN, 9 Sep. 2022
• The young Queen Elizabeth II, not long out of her teenage years, with the glow of youth and a tinkling bell of a voice, pledged her life to duty.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2022
• And hip-hop-loving urban youth were quick to follow suit.
  — Zandile Blay, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2022
• This law gives police a new tool to help bring home missing Black youth & Black women!
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• That’s when the memory of a Dead show from his youth came flashing back as though drug-induced.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 31 July 2024
• These three youths share goofy, creepy smiles among themselves, made meaningful when the directors cross-cut flash-forwards of domestic life, game life, gang life, and lonely life.
  — Armond White, National Review, 15 Jan. 2025
• The billionaire credits his successful career, in part, to having the freedom, and free time, in his youth to explore the world around him, to read and to think deeply without more modern distractions like smartphones and social media.
  — Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 14 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 30 Jan 2025