whippersnapper
Example Sentences
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"If one of those three players was to win the World Championship, maybe beat a young whippersnapper in the final, what an achievement that would be. Maybe their best ever achievement," said Davis.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2025
To paraphrase the delegate’s argument, she was going to do her part to encourage people to vote whenever she damn well pleased, and was disinclined to submit to scripted choreography dictated by some whippersnapper.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2024
A late-career lark for Steve Martin and Martin Short has become a beloved television institution; teamed with relative whippersnapper Selena Gomez, they form a comedy trio like none other.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2024
The whippersnapper was about 5 to 7 years old, some 4 meters long, and weighed about 350 kilograms—as much as a large domestic pig, and about 1/10 the heft of its parent.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 7, 2023
“Hundred and fifty million years? A whippersnapper among ammonites, really. What say we buy it for you?”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
