How to Use tender (young) age in a Sentence
tender (young) age
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Do ghosts who left us at the tender age of 38 hobble around the stage like old men?
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Feb. 2023
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Tito, Jackie, Jermaine and Marlon — in the group the Jackson 5 at the tender age of 6.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 23 June 2023
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At the tender age of 4, my arms were covered with lace gloves draping over my legs, propped for a camera.
—Laila Annmarie Stevens, Parents, 15 Jan. 2024
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My first visit to a brewery came at the tender age of 3½ with my Grandfather Miguel.
—Melissa Mora Hidalgo, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
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At the tender age of 14, I was forced to ask myself why our friends and neighbors would so suddenly and swiftly turn on us.
—Cherien Dabis, Variety, 16 Aug. 2022
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The institution caters to diverse age groups and skill levels, from the tender age of two to seasoned adults.
—Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2024
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Raven-Symoné is grappling with the loss of her younger brother, Blaize Pearman, who died at the tender age of 31 due to his two-year battle with colon cancer.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 12 Dec. 2023
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Even at the tender age of five, Kasey-Jay is already dreaming of going to a place called Howard University.
—Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 10 July 2022
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Teammate Parker Fox, in his sixth year of college basketball, marvels at what Christie can do at the tender age of 18.
—Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 16 Feb. 2024
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Even before Deon Mullen had a license to drive a car, he was called upon to assume a leadership role in his church at the tender age of 16.
—Scott Talley, Freep.com, 9 Apr. 2023
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began his musical training at the tender age of three.
—Cindi May, Scientific American, 21 May 2021
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Cocroft, now 12 games into his varsity career as the team’s starting point guard, was fearless even at a tender age.
—Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 16 Dec. 2022
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Hoffman and Streep are all-timers, but the kid (Justin Henry) is pretty damn good too, and earned himself an Oscar nomination at the tender age of eight.
—Hilary Weaver, ELLE, 1 June 2022
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Imagine being told at that tender age that your very existence is only the result of a tragedy that happened well before you were born.
—Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 6 Apr. 2023
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The news of his death eight years later at the tender age of 28 (by a stray bullet shot reportedly from someone within his camp after a dispute over a dice game) shook me to my core.
—Taylyn Washington-Harmon, refinery29.com, 4 Nov. 2022
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Hermine has been challenging herself as a baker since constructing her first solo savarin cake at the tender age of 8.
—Andrea Park, Marie Claire, 1 Oct. 2020
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To help ease that pain, six years ago, at the tender age of 24, Charlie Javice launched her fintech, Frank, with the aim of making a degree affordable and accessible for all.
—Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2023
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She is celebrated as a grandmother, a mother, an aunt, a daughter, a sister, and as a ruler forced into a difficult role at the tender age of 25.
—Madeline Hayman-Reber, refinery29.com, 21 Sep. 2022
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One of the newest employees at SpaceX has been described as a child prodigy who skipped elementary school and will graduate from college this week at the tender age of 14.
—Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 15 June 2023
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Park visitors between the tender age of three and 12 can visit the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique for a Disney-style makeover.
—Fox News, 20 July 2022
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At the tender age of 12, Jorge Baracutei Estevez had a life-altering experience.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 21 June 2023
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Days ago, Atlanta rapper Takeoff — who as a teen helped create Migos’ trendsetting triplet flow — was fatally shot at the tender age of 28.
—Longreads, 4 Nov. 2022
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Bianca Muñiz, a singer, songwriter, and two-time cancer survivor, received her first diagnosis at the tender age of 11.
—Kristin Booker, Allure, 14 Oct. 2020
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Just imagine if Walt Disney had, at a tender age, gotten lost in a magic forest, dropped acid, and made hallucinatory love to a white mare.
—Jason Kehe, Wired, 21 Aug. 2020
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Mexican clubs Atlas and Santos had scouted him and reached out, but his parents didn’t want to sacrifice the cocoon of family at such a tender age.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2023
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By the tender age of 31, Harry was completely spiraling, likening himself to his father.
—Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 13 Jan. 2023
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Angela Lansbury was recently taken from us (far too soon at the tender age of 96), but as a result of her passing, all sorts of great stories about the beloved acting legend are resurfacing.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2022
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He was left behind not only because of his tender age, illness, injury and the difficulty of being drafted in a pandemic.
—Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2023
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Williams English's daughter might have been the youngest person to technically ever appear in the swimsuit issue while her mom was pregnant, but she was also shot for the magazine at the tender age of six weeks old.
—Mark Gray, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2023
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After losing her own mother at the tender age of six, Long picked up spiritual healing by closely watching her mother’s mother practice the art.
—Nafeesah Allen, House Beautiful, 30 Aug. 2021
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