Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven!

What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society.

I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.

Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.

a lamb is a young sheep; these picture books are for young readers

the age of space travel is still young; a young business

[…] while the Fears of the People were young, they were encreas’d strangely by several odd Accidents […]

And thou, our Mother, twice two centuries young,
Bend with bright shafts of truth thy bow fresh-strung.

How young is your dog? Her grandmother turned 70 years young last month.

The young Mr. Chester must be in the wrong, and the old Mr. Chester must be in the right.

1922, E. Barrington, “The Mystery of Stella” in “The Ladies!” A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty, Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, pp. 40-41,
[…] Miss Hessy is as pretty a girl as eye can see, in her young twenties and a bit of a fortune to boot.

[…] while this may appeal to older, better-off shoppers, vast numbers, especially those in their teens and young twenties, still want fast, cheap fashion.

Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

My grandmother is a very active woman and is quite young for her age.

The cynical world soon shattered my young dreams.

The lion's young are curious about the world around them.

There is a logic in this behavior: a mother will not come into breeding condition again unless her young is ready to be weaned or has died, so killing a baby may hasten […]

The aging (or younging) of a population refers to the fact that a population, as a unit of observation, is getting older (or younger).

Medicare data was "younged" by a month to achieve conformity with the conventional completed ages recorded in the census.

Shoshonitic magmatism younged southwards in the Superior Province, commensurate with the southwardly diachronous accretion of allochthonous subprovinces.

The existence of magmatic belts younging northward implies that slabs of Asian mantle subducted one after another under ranges north of the Himalayas.

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you can't put a wise head on young shoulders

you can't put an old head on young shoulders

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