youngsters

Example Sentences

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An estimated 46,300 youngsters a year, or 127 a day, lose a parent, according to Child Bereavement UK.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

There were transferable skills, with youngsters learning the sports in robust fashion, with matches taking place between various estates in the town.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

But unlike the tradwife with her gaggle of youngsters underfoot, the orangutan mother sustains this intense caretaking by spacing her kids seven or so years apart.

From Slate • May 10, 2026

Another California baby has contracted measles — this time, in Orange County — raising questions about what parents should do to protect their youngsters as the notoriously contagious disease continues to spread nationwide.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

When an embarrassed police department and Bull Connor, Birmingham’s commissioner of public safety, saw that they were losing the battle to youngsters, things started getting nasty.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry