How To Use Younger In A Sentence

In her house apron and with her hair a little ruffled she looked younger, startled and then angry. THE WHITE DOVE
A lot of younger people sat in the aisle amid the fag ends, gum and dust.
Brunhild, a mischievous, strong-minded goldfish (the voice of Noah Cyrus, Miley's younger sister), is determined to become a little girl when she's rescued from a jar and befriended by Sosuke (the voice of Frankie Jonas, the Jonas Brothers 'kid brother), a plucky, self-reliant 5-year-old. No Time's Right for 'Traveler's Wife'
His eyes have a certain amount of little-boy-lost about them and his slightly nervy, jumpy presence also helps him appear a lot younger than his 43 years.
Lonnie and Aggie are a good deal younger than Roberta here. HOMELAND AND OTHER STORIES

Flossing your teeth daily (or, at a pinch, using a mouthwash) can make you 6.4 years younger.
The fact that these rocks were not supplying detritus to the sedimentary basin is consistent with the geological observation that they always appear covered by the younger deposits, with little or no discontinuity until the Devonian.
He then accused the powers that be of failing to appreciate younger people's culture.
I joined other escaping mums - and dads and younger folk and older folk too.
The channel's viewership is ageing, and attempts to attract younger watchers have yet to bear fruit.
Ireland is younger, more sallow, better educated, more vibrant and more in need of joined-up thinking than ever before.
He will have noted the height, build, and general appearance of the two men: one was fat, middle-aged, and bald and had a scar over his left eye; the other younger, fair-haired, more athletic, and had a moustache.
I wanted to know because she looked old enough to be in junior high but acted so much younger.
Educational standards in the area are high, particularly among younger people.
I understand that there is a huge upswing in the sales of hair colourants, especially for the younger girls and boys.
The evening takes the form of a memory play told by the elderly Kat, now a shoeshine boy working the streets, who looks back at his younger self.
The Year 9 mentors are trained by children's charity Childline and run lunchtime support clubs as well as a drop-in centre where younger students can call in for advice or help.
Not only are policemen getting younger, but people are living longer - ten years more on average than a generation ago.
I think the younger generation have obtained from somewhere or other the impression that I am uncool.
After initially dismissing the likelihood that consumers would "cut the cord" by turning off their pay-TV subscriptions, media executives are starting to acknowledge the need to sell smaller bundles of TV to lure younger, and more cost-conscious consumers. Cable-TV Honchos Cry Foul Over Soaring Cost of ESPN
And a younger, sprier Edwards fearlessly taunted his tormentor, U.S. Attorney John Volz, once rising to his feet for a toast in a French Quarter bar while trilling, “When my moods are over, and my time has come to pass, I hope they bury me upside down, so Volz can kiss my ass.” FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER
His name was James and he was younger than me...perhaps by a year. *cue cradle-snatching jokes* He was my friend's cousin, and I remember thinking he was gorgeous when I first met him. Archive 2010-07-01
Lively, pretty, and pleasure-loving, Carie had married the saintly younger brother of the minister in her hometown of Hillsboro, West Virginia, because he was preparing to go as a missionary to China, and she wanted to give herself to God. PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
Small wonder younger people are so disinterested in serving the community.
Ruddy-faced Frank, looking far younger than his 90 years, recalls how he worked with teams of Clydesdale horses, sometimes in pairs and threes for ploughing.
However, he conceded that the Government was yet to get a handle on the situation, as younger offenders were getting their hands on illegal guns.
I think we can eliminate blacks, women, and the younger voter from our enquiries.
In the countryside, on the contrary, more hands were needed to work the fields in grain-growing regions, and males contracted marriages at younger ages to increase the rural labour supply.
The council wanted a handy city centre venue where younger mums could share a coffee and discuss matters with other people facing similar challenges.
I am a 63-year-old woman whose husband of 31 years has left her for a younger number. Times, Sunday Times
'As the fight began some witnesses heard him say,'Go on youngers '. The Sun
My mind was clear and the only words flowing were the words my younger sister had just said.
Younger members gradually split off, building a separate house in the neighborhood.
The Los Zorros property covers the entire breadth of a regional anticlinorium in an area that is the locus of younger intrusive activity which intruded up through the fold-deformed lower Cretaceous section of volcaniclastic, siliclastic, and limestone formations and intrusive diorite sills. StreetInsider.com News Articles
The failure of baby boomers to effectively communicate with younger generations of soldiers is driving many captains out of the Army.
When he died in 1995, she and her younger brother, Te Rakaherea, became the guardians of Sir Maui's writings, his taonga and even his mana.
Her first book was dedicated to Christopher, but this latest work is for Nick and Billy - younger sons of Sarah and her husband, David.
But the younger sister was an actress even then; loud, raucous and playing to the crowd.
The younger you are, it seems the less intelligence is passed down, thus the decline in intelligible television. The Current State Of Science Fiction On Tv
The problem is that members are growing older and more wrinkled - and the younger generation do not quite see the point. Times, Sunday Times
They've successfully expanded that to include the 'mass-affluent' and include a younger set of customers. AmEx Looks Beyond Credit Cards
In the center is Frank, wearing a black tuxedo and looking much younger - no beard then, and certainly no gray in his hair.
This first of many direct and oblique connections between the two poets takes considerable ballsyness on the younger Berrigan's part, but it all pays off in the end.
Without telematics for younger drivers, it's 241 per month and with telematics, 336. The Sun
My sister is eight years younger than me, and did not have the Jewish education I was blessed to have had.
But a younger generation of Cuban-Americans is less fixated by Castro and his espousal of communism during the cold war. Barack Obama acts to ease US embargo on Cuba
By contrast, the authors note the emergence of a specific type of younger man, commonly called otaku or herbivore. The Times Literary Supplement
Some of the younger pop bands try to imitate their musical heroes from the past.
the old product was reincarnated to appeal to a younger market
Latex balloons, and toys or games that contain a latex balloon, must carry a warning that children younger than 8 can choke or suffocate on uninflated or broken balloons and that adult supervision is required Not just the newest toys hold risks for kids
What drew slightly more attention was his penchant for staying after class, gently proselytizing about Jesus to some of the younger lingerers.
But some younger white South Africans, especially those from anglophone backgrounds with higher education, went searching for new identities, not least Australian, British, and Canadian.
When my son was younger and had a temper tantrum, I found the simplest methods were best.
Chen, who is now playing elder sister to many of her younger classmates, has already accustomed herself to the endless backward somersaults, handstands and horse vaults.
You need to be united in addressing your younger daughter's behaviour. The Sun
As the younger became more wilful and wayward, making the most of her privileged status, the elder became more withdrawn, worried about her destiny.
My wise, knowledgeable green eyes were younger, no wrinkles marring them in the slightest.
In the late 1960s and '70s, second-wave feminists, belittled in today's conservative backlash as bra-burning man-haters, paved the way for rights younger women now take for granted.
The younger ones will probably be less nervous than the older players. Times, Sunday Times
-- They lived together; and when Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20_000L. any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learnt to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head. Mansfield Park
The drama has been heavily trailered on the main channels, focusing on the shocking behaviour of one of the younger detectives, but there is more to it than that.
Maybe it's a bit like having a stuffy, old law prof, who seems nowhere near as exciting as the younger, livelier profs, but somewhere along the line, you just start appreciating him.
My daughter started on Barbie when she was younger and while barbie is a little more normal than Bratz I still didn’t like it. The Good, The Bad, and The Bratz | Her Bad Mother
Their name, which he had long avoided mentioning, was incessantly on his lips: but always the same, always inclined naturally and systematically, to have more strings than one to his bow, he appeared to incline alternately _for the younger branch, and for the reigning branch_. Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II
He "officiated" for the first time at a dance given by one of the younger McTurgs. Prairie Folks
Most of the younger resistance fighters lived with other families who treated them like their sons.
Richard Kay, like Nigel Dempster before him, is paid to write a diary about moneyed toffs like David and Sam so that humbler tube-travelling folk can goggle a bit and scowl at their youngers and betters. Tory press defenders of Middle England rail against the toffs
Contrary to what you might expect, the biggest beneficiaries could be younger people. Times, Sunday Times
Behind him hurried a younger, comelier man, carefully clad in motor costume, who bent above the girl with passionate solicitude and gazed into her staring eyes until they narrowed and dropped and her face flushed deeper and deeper crimson. DARKWATER
He tried to simplify the story for the younger audience.
I can't begin to describe the horrors being perpetrated by the DJ's, their insistent attempts to incite a conga line, or the, um, "dancing" of the patrons who -- despite clearly being the offspring and younger relatives that the publisher folks had passed on their tickets to -- managed to make your dad's elbow-jiggle and hip-shoogle look like The Moves Of The Groove. Archive 2006-10-01
It should be a magnificent day of fun and frolics for the younger children of the region.
At a time when cultural events influenced by westernisation are fast becoming more popular among the younger generation, there is a growing concern that ancient and traditional arts would slowly fade away.
High housing costs have also led to a decrease in the number of younger people being able to afford to live alone. Times, Sunday Times
In the 1340s the church's presbytery, off which radiate six chapels, was rebuilt by the widow of Hugh le Despenser the Younger, who was executed for treason in 1326.
As generation gap exists, we must bear in mind that the younger people might not like that idea.
The younger bridesmaids wore pale lilac shimmer satin dresses with cream embroidered bodices, and carried pomanders of lilac and cream flowers.
And he does not take kindly to younger managers trying to muscle in on his territory. The Sun
Younger sons of noble families proverbially come off second best in this country, but if one of them found his only 'appanage' was a mine, he would surely with some justice make a remonstrance. Some Private Views
The term SIDS is defined as the sudden death of an infant younger than one year of age that remains unexplained despite thorough medical investigation. Solve Your Child’s Sleep Problems
Purists value keyboard-only emoticons, while younger generations embrace an advanced set of icons - the emoji.
Everything you own is second-hand or hand-me-downs, or given to you as a gift over the recent holidays and will become a recycle to your younger brother once you grow out of it.
A boy seriously burned in a fire that killed his older brother eight years ago has saved his younger brother and sister from another blaze at their Bradford home.
From the kitchen, she could hear peals of laughter sounding where Robert, the butler, was doubtless entertaining her younger siblings.
Anonymous said ... mungo is fifty?!?! will the test be worse than knowing that the prez of the united states is younger than you, and will be taking a lot of your money? Celebrating Inauguration Day in Style
Taking exercise every day makes him look younger instead of older.
U2 coldplay the beatles sorry I am probably a lot younger tehn most of you guys. Favorite musicians
He attacked the younger boy from behind.
After a time, the younger cuprite-worker turns and heads back to Lorn-without the blade. The Magi'i Of Cyador
She viewed herself as she was sure Jake would: a twenty-five-year-old woman, grossly tall, apparently too clumsy to hold a book, and with a demimondaine petticoat contradicting a dress sewn for a much younger woman. Hearts
They proved that to have a good sense of humour is definitely a recipe for success, especially with the younger crowd.
Many of the men one sees in audiences are considerably younger but lack the youthful vigour of conductors.
Society-wide measures of religious behavior muffle portentous change that may be occurring at the younger edge of the population, so social prognosticators just like commercial advertisers focus on trends among young adults, trying to discern which aspects of behavior are what they are because the youths are young, and which aspects are what they are because of when they are young. American Grace
Men younger than 18 years, those with recurrent or incarcerated herniae, and those with scrotal diseases (tumor, orchitis) were excluded from the study.
Looks like Madonna will do just about anything to stay thin and look young. reports claim that Madge has started a salmon "retox" regimen in order to look younger. Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip blog from Perez Hilton
Kitsilano, another aspirational address, draws younger, funkier families. Times, Sunday Times
Alberti was also occupied by the dialectic of the vita activa – vita contemplativa. 33 Through his own treatise on the subject, De commodis literarum atque incommodis,34 and a study of the Florentine family, Della famiglia,35 Alberti deeply influenced a younger generation of powerful and wealthy soldier-scholars, including Leonello d'Este and Federico, who negotiated their turbulent political climate as much by tactical eloquence as by militaristic valor. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
Personals placers aren't exactly defying defined cultural roles; most women wrote ads seeking economic security, while men sought younger, attractive partners.
Patients with cat scratch disease are likely to own a cat aged 12 months or younger, to have been scratched or bitten by a kitten, and to have at least one kitten infested with fleas.
Kuang and his troupe of tyro assassins are younger and more in over their heads than they realize, and things get emotionally and operationally out of hand with a rapidity that is stunning.
The independent film community was always looking for younger mixers, rather than people in their 40s or 50s.
Younger workers tend to be at an advantage when applying for jobs.
Each terrace represents a fan of younger pyroclastic deposits infilling valleys cut in older fans.
The Arizonan is a sort of new Bob Dole; a tough but likeable old fellow who gets trounced by a younger, seemingly youthful candidate, he said. Will Mari: Mike Huckabee Supporter Ready To Get Behind McCain
Cassandra, her older sister Rose and her younger brother Thomas are living in poverty even more abject than the Bastables, in a broken - down castle.
I am a senior and when I try to tell the younger generation what really happened they smile and more or less give the idea that old people are senile and the good people of the US would never have committed such an unforgivable sin.
While pubescent males could find younger females to be on nearly the same developmental level as themselves, teenage females are not as inclined to regard younger, less developed males as sexual partners.
When older wolves can no longer hunt successfully, younger wolves share their kill with them, in what MacNulty describes as a lupine version of Social Security. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
On the arm of the chair was a diadem, one made for a younger and smaller person. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
Such experiments were carried considerably further by a loosely knit group of younger painters.
We talked about the rumble only when a safe distance away from family members, especially younger siblings.
He had to spend about six months in a class with younger students.
The main problem that Ash foresees is among the younger academic staff.
The character of the field man's work was fundamentally altered in ways unknown to younger staff.
He dispatched the younger player in straight sets.
Serious side effects, such as convulsions, are more likely to occur in younger patients and would be of greater risk to infants than to older children or adults.
The present leaders have to decide whether to stand down and hand over to a younger generation.
Zoroastrianism is in fact the role model for all the later, younger Magian religions that came after it and were influenced by it: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam included. McCain Betrayed Viet. POWs « Antiwar.com Blog
The bulk of the sediments on the outer margin are of Eocene to Oligocene age with thin units of younger sediments on top.
We know African-Americans are diagnosed at younger ages with what we call hormone-sensitive cancers, like prostate and breast cancer. News for WSAV
The younger deputies were circled up by the door to Room 9, trying to joke off the bitter aftertaste of mortality. THE KILL CLAUSE
He spurs on his younger sidekick to a career best on a rollicking blues album that's full of great riffs and inventive playing. The Sun
Differences in wealth and the superiority of elder over younger sons are ignored as they take their places according to age.
They were young men with horn-rimmed glasses and bow ties and even younger women with long braids, some serious and others smiling, but all appearing woefully unprepared for life on China's harsh northwestern frontier.
Why would they even think of using a 45 year old? in the BD when bella says that carlisle would be a grandfather she says that he looks like zeus’s younger, better looking brother. anyways peter is soo hot for a dad of three. he looks good with jenny garth. Twilight Lexicon » Peter Facinelli’s Twilight Audition
A duck (of either gender - the term drake is not used in a culinary context) is usually six months old or more, while a duckling is younger.
Titled Esau studies, the group chose that name explicitly to reflect the younger brother's undercutting of the older brother's birthright.
For younger visitors, swashbuckling pirates will be hand to entertain, along with magicians, face paintings, musicians and much more.
Knowing and wearing the correct colours is supposed to make us look healthier, younger and boost our confidence. Times, Sunday Times
The group was led by his younger brother Koki who was always popular with everyone, cool and laid back.
--- but I humbled myself, and apologised to Redcowl; for, even in my younger days, I was no friend to the monomachia, or duel, and would rather walk with Sir Priest than with Sir Knight --- I care not who knows so much of my valour. The Antiquary
Hortensio desperately wants to marry Bianca; however, Baptista will not allow his younger daughter to marry any man before his older Katherine has first wed.
The breast augmentation was successful, and she says she feels much younger.
He had been, though a much younger man, acquainted with the late Sir Hildebrand; and whenever Mrs Rayland and Lord Carloraine met, which they did in cumbrous state twice or thrice a year, their whole conversation consisted of eulogiums on the days that were passed, in expressing their dislike of all that was now acting in a degenerate world, and their contempt of the actors. The Old Manor House
The relationship finally fizzled out when he met the younger woman who would become his second wife. Times, Sunday Times
Yet there was the sense of an older gentleman wondering about the younger generation. Times, Sunday Times
The youngers will be saying'Why would I go and work in the supermarket like my mum when I can earn 200 a day selling drugs ' Times, Sunday Times
The elder maid-servant wore a good stuff gown — the younger snooded up her hair, and now went about the house a damsel so trig and neat, that some said she was too handsome for the service of a bachelor divine; and others, that they saw no business so old Saint Ronan's Well
But, those are those over the age of 35 - most younger voters - many born in decades after the Marcos years have no memories of the those years other than the dictator label pegged on his father and conjugal nature of those years in power. Philippines: Marcos Jr files candidacy for Philippine Senate
ITV has set its sights on winning a younger and more upmarket audience.
The most expensive include an urge to travel - at 1,471 - buying clothes to look younger and joining a gym to battle middle-age spread. The Sun
Each terrace represents a fan of younger pyroclastic deposits infilling valleys cut in older fans.
They allowed him close unchaperoned contact with younger female patients.
The younger children are thriving and living peaceful lives here in Bolton.
She was accompanied by an equally red-faced and only slightly less stout younger woman, similarly attired. IN LOVE AND WAR
I feel they are aiming at older people and people in wealthy jobs more than the younger generation.
The relationship between upperclassmen and younger students changed.
Caine looked up at the younger man, his expression sharp but his tone soft. Florida Getaway
One moonlit evening she heard an old gondoliere challenge a younger one to alternate with him the stanzas of the Gerusalemme. Mrs Shelley
The problem is that members are growing older and more wrinkled - and the younger generation do not quite see the point. Times, Sunday Times
She says:'I rekindled an old romance with a younger man two years ago and we are still seeing each other. The Sun
The Younger Edda is a prose paraphrase of, and commentary on, these poems and others which are lost, together with a treatise on metre, written by the historian The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12
The fact that he is younger in years than other deserving officers should not be sufficient reason for overslaughing him again.
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The younger players were well marshalled by their opponents and did not get the same latitude as they did in previous games.
Its last assignment was to find the heliopause, where the solar wind is offset by the galactic wind, but in April 1997 it was passed by a younger, faster Voyager spacecraft.
Each terrace represents a fan of younger pyroclastic deposits infilling valleys cut in older fans.
Richard Carrier: I predict Evangelicals and Catholics (and Mormons and Baptists and everyone else) will not be able to arrest the current trend in younger generations toward liberal non-denominationalism and the abandonment of the entire church-sermon model that Christianity has maintained so far. Interview with Richard Carrier
He looks far younger and, even with grizzle around the mouth, is incomparably better looking than the paunchy Officer Peterson of the puffy eyelids. A Story of Two Wives
I had a friend who worked abroad minus his wife and ran off with a younger bird.
With the increased growth of the thyroid and cricoid cartilage, the angulation of the vocal chords decreases, eliminating subglottic narrowing and subsequent airway obstruction associated with anesthesia in younger children.
A slowdown in the birth rate has led to a dramatic decrease in the number of younger people in the workforce.
Conversely, many younger people will be the first generation in their family who can expect to inherit substantial amounts.
Kent the narrator is wise to the flaws of his younger self, if not exactly regretful.
It is quite unusual for a freshman to be younger than eighteen or older than nineteen.
To reach a younger demographic, Jensen and his ilk are eschewing mainstream acts and building brand identity with cutting-edge, forgotten, and obscure music.
Could she possibly marry this boy whom her sentimental contemporaneousness with his father naturally seemed to relegate to a generation younger than herself? The Halo
Besides a father she has a younger brother to support.
Furthermore, there was no pattern of younger to older in the carbon-dates that correlated with the evolutionary/uniformitarian 'ages'.
It is most often diagnosed in women in their thirties and forties, although I've seen it in many younger women, as well.
As the plucky younger side you expected them to gamble. Times, Sunday Times
So me and my younger bro were like "angsty" and "aimless" cuz we were trying to find a thing to "do" to forget this hunger. An hour and 7 minutes. non-stop, fingers work.
Research has documented that as offenders mature, they are less likely to continue using drugs and less likely to recidivate than are younger offenders.
They had always spoiled me when I was younger, buying me things I didn't want or need, dressing me up in clothes I didn't like.
He is unwilling to step aside in favour of a younger person.
To pry away those younger callers, Virgin is playing on their wariness of complicated plans and hidden fees.
It was only when the younger daughter finally contacted social services in June of this year that any action was taken. The Sun
I'd like to introduce my younger son, Mark.
Camilla was still carrying on a vast arrangement which she called the preparation of her trousseau, but which both Mrs French and Bella regarded as a spoliation of the domestic nest, for the proud purposes of one of the younger birds. He Knew He Was Right
The sole exception is if a younger player is drafted by an NBA team and later cut.
These new ideas are penetrating into the minds of the younger generation.
But if the city is able to replace an older and more expensive worker with a cheaper and younger worker and the differentiability factor really is simply seniority than they should do so. Spending Addicts on Aurora City Council Go Wild | Party Girl Stephanie Kifowit, Nickel-n-Dimer Leroy Keith Among Taxpayer Exploiters in $383m Budget
Nevertheless, there does not seem to be any difference in interfirm or interindustry mobility between the younger and older GMs. Both groups had spent about 90 percent of their career time in one industry and 80 percent of their careers in one company. The General Managers
He was terribly unfair to the younger children.
What we had planned for the summer was a little light gardening followed by mimosas on the patio while the younger kids disported themselves on the swing set and the 13-year-old moped in the hammock. The Case Against Summer
Another time I'd casually written that now I'd had the pleasure of ‘going out’ with a much younger man, I'd be very surprised if I ever reverted to my previous habit of dating oldsters.
It is doubtful whether our younger generation can figure them out.
Her approach and insight are so modern that they appeal to her younger readers too.
And his unlettered parents and uncle also ‘supported my younger sister Madhavi’.
It chimes perfectly with what the younger generation have grown up thinking of as entertainment. Times, Sunday Times
He also has a younger bhai, Apoorva.
Like his father, Alfonso the younger was well known as a composer of church music, writing English anthems for the Anglican Church as well as motets to Latin words.
Vicks VapoRub also contains camphor, in low, government-approved doses, although the label advises against use in children younger than 2. Salon
For younger singers it has been hard to spurn his crude advances, as their careers could have been adversely affected had they rebuffed him. Times, Sunday Times
The school captain was a god to the younger boys.
They later turned into Petergate and entered a chip shop where the younger man removed the purse's contents before dropping the purse into a dustbin outside.
Thousands of children 12 and younger ride motorcycles, ATVs and snowmobiles, which is why a lot of effort and time has gone into designing vehicles made for smaller folks. Hot Air » Top Picks
My younger sister holds to that tradition, but my older sister's boys are too old to be dragged anywhere by a women who is their mom.
These hours of drowsihead were the season of the old gentlewoman's attendance on her brother, while Phoebe took charge of the shop; an arrangement which the public speedily understood, and evinced their decided preference of the younger shopwoman by the multiplicity of their calls during her administration of affairs. The House of the Seven Gables
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