younger

Example Sentences

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When older quarterbacks are dealing with the younger generation of the NFL, veterans share the tricks to keeping up with the youngers on and off the football field.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2023

Literature’s actuarial tables dictate that a younger critic will tend to review, on balance, more elders than youngers.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2018

“The only rule is about the way the elders and the youngers interact. If we’re talking about my father’s cousin, if he’s older than me, then I obey him.”

From The New Yorker • Dec. 25, 2016

And now I’m subjecting you to a digression: A while back, on behalf of his readership, the Gentleman Scholar attended a panel sponsored by a hep magazine run by his youngers.

From Slate • Oct. 15, 2014

He is even something of a preacher, a praiser of the time when he was a boy, a censor and corrector of his youngers.

From Horace and His Influence by Showerman, Grant