YOUTHFUL in a Sentence

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Wednesday she listened carefully as Attorney General Janet Reno testified in a subcommittee hearing on youth, violence and drugs.

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 Meanings and Examples of YOUTHFUL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
youthful
 a.  suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  As spectators there assembled one youthful grocery clerk, stopping his Ford delivery wagon to stare from the seat, and one solemn small boy, tugging a smaller sister who had a careless nose.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
2  Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 102. A Bower in the Arsacides.
3  Major Heyward was mistaken only in suffering his youthful and generous pride to suppress his active watchfulness.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
4  At the next instant, a youthful warrior passed between them, with a noiseless step, and seated himself on the bank of the rapid stream.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
5  If anything could add to my own base love of life," said Heyward, suffering his unconscious eyes to wander to the youthful form of the silent Alice, "it would be so kind an assurance.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
6  He pointed toward the youthful military captive, and described the death of a favorite warrior, who had been precipitated into the deep ravine by his hand.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
7  Cora could not resist the desire to look upon her youthful sister, in whose eyes she met an imploring glance, that betrayed the longings of nature.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
8  To these ardent and nearly innocent words Cora made no other answer than by straining the youthful speaker to her heart, as she bent over her in melting tenderness.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
9  He was, however, anticipated by the voice of the ingenuous and youthful Alice.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
10  Cora was seated nigh them, a calm and amused looker-on; regarding the wayward movements of her more youthful sister with that species of maternal fondness which characterized her love for Alice.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
11  As soon as the usual ceremonials of a military departure were observed, the veteran and his more youthful companion left the fortress, attended by the escort.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
12  But the youthful Uncas continued a silent and respectful listener, until Hawkeye, in complaisance, demanded his opinion.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
13  Thou art gone, youthful warrior, but a hundred Wyandots are clearing the briers from thy path to the world of the spirits.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
14  It was a new and special revelation, explaining dark and mysterious things, with which my youthful understanding had struggled, but struggled in vain.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  There was a youthful private who listened with eager ears to the words of the tall soldier and to the varied comments of his comrades.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence: (87 in 6 pages)
16  Some youth today do not allow any criticism at all.
17  We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
18  The youth continued to gawk at her and did not answer.
19  I spent most of my youth hanging around the bars of Dublin.
20  Wednesday she listened carefully as Attorney General Janet Reno testified in a subcommittee hearing on youth, violence and drugs.
21  Don't drone away the precious years of youth.
22  He is a fine type of the youth.
23  To youth I have but words of counsel -- work, work, work.
24  In her youth she was an active member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
25  This choice of language is for example particularly important in communicating to youth and senior citizen markets.
26  It is necessary to get the youth to have a high ethical concept.
27  Her latest documentary is concerned with youth unemployment.
28  In the corner, one youth sat alone, softly strumming a guitar.
29  Beauty is forever yoked to youth in our culture.
30  As young people started to have more money, a significant youth culture developed.