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

Occasionally, however, he overdid the youthful bit: after all, at the age of fifty-two, he is hardly a stripling.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 20, 2015

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

The Bay of Pigs debacle left Khrushchev convinced that Kennedy was a callow stripling whom he could bludgeon at will.

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2011

The other sellsword—a stripling, hardly more than a boy, with fuzz on his cheeks and hair the color of dirty straw—scooped up Penny under one arm.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin