YOUTH in a Sentence

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For YOUTH, below is one of 297 sentences:
She had set her feet upon that road a spoiled, selfish and untried girl, full of youth, warm of emotion, easily bewildered by life.

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 Meanings and Examples of YOUTH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
youth
 n.  the time of life between childhood and maturity
 n.  a young person (especially a young man or boy)
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Eady and his assistant were both "down street," and young Denis, who seldom deigned to take their place, was lounging by the stove with a knot of the golden youth of Starkfield.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
2  That was the year when Gerald O'Hara, twenty-eight years older than she, came into her life--the year, too, when youth and her black-eyed cousin, Philippe Robillard, went out of it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  But Atlanta was of her own generation, crude with the crudities of youth and as headstrong and impetuous as herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  For a young man cut off without a shilling in early youth, I've done very well.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  He is a thoroughly bad character who would take advantage of your youth and innocence to make you conspicuous and publicly disgrace you and your family.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  I hope and pray it was only youth and thoughtlessness that prompted such forward conduct.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  No pang of conscience at loving another woman's husband or reading that woman's mail disturbed her pleasure in her youth and charm and her renewed assurance of Ashley's love.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  She was a woman now and youth was gone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  For Ashley, spring was back again, that half- forgotten balmy spring of green rustlings and murmurings, a spring of ease and indolence, careless days when the desires of youth were warm in his body.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
10  She had set her feet upon that road a spoiled, selfish and untried girl, full of youth, warm of emotion, easily bewildered by life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  Hunger and hard labor, fear and constant strain, the terrors of war and the terrors of Reconstruction had taken away all warmth and youth and softness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
12  Georgia had taken his youth and his middle years for a crime that was no crime to him, yet he had freely given a leg and an eye to Georgia.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
13  My early youth was spent as a gambler on a river boat and I can understand people like that.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
14  His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
15  Only Ashley who shared her memories and her youth, who knew her beginnings and her present could understand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
Example Sentence: (87 in 6 pages)
16  To youth I have but words of counsel -- work, work, work.
17  In her youth she was an active member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
18  This choice of language is for example particularly important in communicating to youth and senior citizen markets.
19  It is necessary to get the youth to have a high ethical concept.
20  Her latest documentary is concerned with youth unemployment.
21  In the corner, one youth sat alone, softly strumming a guitar.
22  Beauty is forever yoked to youth in our culture.
23  As young people started to have more money, a significant youth culture developed.
24  You are my most adventure youth dream.
25  Miss dashed off into a fine record with the youth about love and hurt.
26  Keep flax from fire,youth from gaming.
27  Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth.
28  He might be influenced by nostalgia for his happy youth.
29  The minister confessed to having experimented with cannabis in her youth.
30  A growing youth has a wolf in his belly.