stripling
Example Sentences
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Not since 1996, when Roy was a stripling of 24, have all 12 required appropriations bills been separately signed into law.
From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2023
Mbappé’s age suggests he’s a boy, a young stripling with plenty to learn, but anyone who has watched him play will tell you he already looks like a man, in body and temperament.
From The Guardian • Mar. 24, 2017
As a stripling in his late 70s, he shambled convincingly as the 87-year-old Firs in the Taper's 2006 revival of "The Cherry Orchard."
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2015
A blind stripling drifts in and out of the novel, a reproach, in part, to the finality and moral guarantees of seeing.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 16, 2014
She wondered who Lysa's "wretched stripling" had been.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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