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Example sentences for "longer young"

  • When a man is no longer young, they call him nothing but an old bird, old beast!

  • Although he was no longer young, it was thought that he was still prodigiously strong.

  • Although no longer young, he still preserved all the tone and vigor of his mind, and only the habit which appeared to have been born with him of reflecting, gave him a slow and measured tone in speaking.

  • They who are no longer young endeavour to impose upon the world by the use of wigs and fronts.

  • But when people resolutely refuse to accept the fact that they are no longer young, it is not surprising that they should run into some extremes, and offend against good taste by dressing in a style utterly unsuited to their years.

  • Certainly not; but what became of the man who was no longer young?

  • At last the door with the green tablet opened with a clatter; out of it came a military man no longer young, and he walked along the corridor hastening greatly.

  • He was a man no longer young; he had an oval face carefully shaven, full of assumed dignity, and also of suffering and care.

  • The third was a simple countryman, no longer young; clearly the soldiers had impressed him to do work for another.

  • Though no longer young, she was still slender and graceful, and her languid eye and vapourish manner seemed to Odo to veil an uncommon alertness of perception.

  • Monsieur has lost a great deal of blood; he is very weak, and, between ourselves, he's no longer young.

  • I brought myself up with a sharp turn; I said to myself that, although I am no longer young, I am not old enough yet to live at other people's expense.

  • He was a man no longer young, with a small beard, now somewhat grey, and a thin face.

  • But when they went up to the house they were met by a tall, handsome native woman, no longer young, with whom Edward cordially shook hands.

  • He was no longer young, and his crisply curling, thick hair was grey.

  • His father confided him to the care of a distant relative, a man no longer young, a bachelor and a frightful Voltairian.

  • It was Monsieur Rouffignard, auctioneer, who was no longer young, but held his own manfully with the young men.

  • As you said just now, I am no longer young, I must think of my future; and an opportunity is offered me--an affair that would suit me to a T.

  • I am no longer young, having passed my thirtieth birthday.

  • She was no longer young, nor possessed of the great attractions which had formerly thrown a veil over the deformities of her temper, which, always violent, had now become soured by adversity.

  • The Duchess of Marlborough, though no longer young, still graced the court which she controlled.

  • Besides, the Palatine was no longer young; she had married her daughters, and dwelt in seclusion.

  • She likes life and love and gay clothes, and I am already twenty-five years old; a sufficient reminder to her that she is no longer young.

  • Our time is short; we are no longer young; let us end deception and concealment, even though it is only at the end of our lives.

  • For some reason they all think that you are no longer young, and no one knows who you are, as you always write under an assumed name.

  • She was no longer young, but, perhaps, more capable of enjoyment when alone with God's works for that very reason.

  • I thought of the change years must have made in him--not to regret that he was no longer young, but feeling how much grander he would be with age on his brow and a consciousness of power in his bearing.

  • They were no longer young; he found threads of gray in those golden tresses, and traces of time around the loveliness of her mouth.

  • He moves among youth, himself no longer young, and among gentlefolk, as one making no claim to equal rank.

  • The Wanderer is no longer young; it is for youth to make the stories old men tell.

  • A pleasant thing to hear, for one no longer young, for a woman getting on in years.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "longer young" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    died young; each company; good cousin; green velvet; longer alone; longer any; longer anything; longer believe; longer doubted; longer extant; longer have; longer know; longer love; longer loved; longer necessary; longer needed; longer seemed; longer stay; longer young; second round; shrank back; specimens were; that year; unless you; white witch; young miss