How to Use the youth in a Sentence

the youth

noun
Definition of the youthnext
  • To the youth, Brando was the line in the sand, the fork in the road.
    — Ty Burr, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Tom Lynch, a D.C. police spokesman, said the youth was 14 at the time of the shooting.
    — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The Reds’ starting lineup on Wednesday was a reminder of the youth of the team.
    — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 20 July 2023
  • At the youth levels, rest your arm for a few months in late fall and winter.
    — Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
  • My son’s catch-and-release treasure hunt was a wake-up call for me—the youth have no love for the coin of the realm.
    — Wes Moss, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • When his son and nephew entered the youth program 11 years ago, Nate jumped in.
    — Zachary Lyons, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2023
  • His search for the right building for the youth center has gone slowly.
    — Annie Gowen, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2024
  • All of the youth mentees he’s talked to who have come home from fire camp have spoken highly of the program.
    — Maya Miller, Sacramento Bee, 31 May 2024
  • He is seen as the candidate of the youth, though far from young at 61; his main rivals are in their 70s.
    — Ruth MacLean, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Swift’s big-screen self-display catches the youth of the Great Reset at their most gullible.
    — Armond White, National Review, 18 Oct. 2023
  • But new research shows that couldn’t be further from the truth—the youth of today just don’t want a desk job.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
  • It’s often said that the youth are the first to adopt new technology.
    — Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2023
  • And that somewhere happened two decades back, when the foundation was laid in the youth of its founder.
    — Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 12 May 2024
  • The looks that walked down the runway were inspired by the youth on the streets of New York when Vevers first arrived a decade ago.
    — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Through her work, Washington finds that more than anything, the youth need to be heard.
    — Essence, 10 July 2024
  • The conditions were so dire that a state oversight agency ordered most of the youth in the halls out.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2024
  • So a supersoldier is dispatched on a mission to find the youth who will one day turn the tide in the war.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Sep. 2023
  • While Pleasantville is 87% white, almost all of the youth on the campus are Black or Latino.
    — Abigail Kramer, ProPublica, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Cops on Monday night said he’d been deemed the victim of a homicide — but the youth’s mother said that was wrong.
    — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 25 June 2024
  • Mack stays in touch with the youth, who at first didn’t want to participate in anything and was prone to blowups.
    — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The amount this single tweet may have just done for the youth vote is not insignificant.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 22 July 2024
  • Ready or not, the youth movement for the Giants’ roster was coming.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
  • That worries Amy Case, whose grandchildren play on the youth teams.
    — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 4 May 2023
  • The lack of acquisitions in left field and shortstop are a credit to the youth movement.
    — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Read Next National Which celebrities can sway the youth vote?
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 29 May 2024
  • The state requires the center to provide education to all the youth held there.
    — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 7 May 2024
  • The people that are taking chances are on platforms like TikTok: That’s what’s getting the eyeballs of the youth.
    — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The last were initially known as revivalists of Mod, the youth movement that gave Williamson’s duo half of its name.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
  • First, people thought the Beatles were a bad influence on the youth.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2024
  • Some of those students attended the camp and were part of the youth planning committee.
    — Alecia Taylor, Miami Herald, 22 June 2024

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