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.
• But his church asked him to be their part-time youth pastor.
  — Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2023
• Kian Tanner, one of the 16 youth plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said in a statement.
  — WIRED, 19 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Savoy Brown wasn’t dreaming about starring in horror films in her youth.
  — Samuel Maude, ELLE, 25 Apr. 2023
• There’s also the wrinkle of youth for the Diamondbacks.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2023
• By the end of September, 19 juveniles had been killed in the city, which was more than the total number of youths killed the year before.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2023
• Over 10% of youth have severe depression that impacts their school and home lives.
  — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 29 Mar. 2023
• The boys know that there is value in their youth, and that their turn as findom masters might not last forever.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2023
• Tell me, what does youth advocacy or youth activism look like for a 12-year-old?
  — Mará Rose Williams, Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2024
• Tremaglio said the infusion of youth is positive for the union’s direction.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
• The video then shows the victim turning around to see who threw the chips and then turning back in an apparent attempt to ignore the group of youths, the statement said.
  — Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2023
• Demonstrate ability to increase the number of youth served.
  — Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic, 10 Jan. 2024
• The day unfolded with sights, sounds and scenes from another era — that of our youth and unspoiled innocence shared by many of us in the 70s.
  — Allen Buchanan, Orange County Register, 2 Apr. 2024
• One asked what advice Weathers had for youth who wanted to follow in his footsteps, but might not have the resources to do so.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2024
• Its mission is to ensure that youth leave the clubs ready for a career, a start-up business and homeownership.
  — Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 31 Aug. 2023
• And its youth soccer fields are often less diverse, Lightner said.
  — oregonlive, 4 Apr. 2023
• Such a joy to see an ensemble of notable Black actors striving for good while playing the favorite sport of my youth.
  — Herbert Lowe, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2023
• The show splits into two strands: in the present, there’s the recording project; in Omara’s youth there’s trouble, and musical and political ferment.
  — The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023
• This is not about nostalgia—about missing my youth, or believing in good ol’ days.
  — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 9 Jan. 2024
• The three-row van also drives like a car and has a cavernous interior for a large family or even a sizable youth team.
  — James Raia, The Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2024
• Green suggested that the school could partner with the nearby First Tee and other youth golf programs to distinguish the school from others.
  — Cynthia Howell, arkansasonline.com, 18 Nov. 2023
• In what was once a marker of adulthood, owning a home, settling down, and reaping the rewards of hard work seem distant dreams for today’s youth.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2024
• Because no one ever thought that anybody old would ever play rock and roll, certainly not in my youth.
  — Magnus Henriksson, SPIN, 18 Apr. 2023
• Police said that ‘youths’ had locked themselves inside the mosque, and then thrown firecrackers and stones as officers broke into one of the main prayer halls.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
• The woman, a U.S. citizen who had spent much of her youth in Jordan and has family there, went back to that country with Halaoh.
  — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024