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Example sentences for "young days"

  • Ah, it ought to have been in my young days, I can tell you!

  • It's just as forest-like here as in my young days!

  • Are you going to eat up the Germans again, as in my young days, or what is it you are after?

  • I, too, have known what it is to give joy, in my young days.

  • The first care of the young married wife was still, in my young days, to spin and get woven sufficient linen to make for herself and her husband their dead claes.

  • Many other stories of people swallowing asks (newts), and other water animals which lived in their stomachs, and produced serious diseases, were current in my young days.

  • Such beliefs existed in Scotland in my young days, and it is almost unnecessary to say that belief in such things is older than history.

  • It could not have been otherwise in a town as true to tradition as Philadelphia had not ceased to be in my young days.

  • In my young days a girl of her age would have wept her eyes out at the mere thought of leaving home--let alone going abroad and perhaps flying by aeroplane.

  • How many people would face one-tenth of the ordeals of my young days?

  • You can't realize the surgeon of my young days.

  • In our young days----" For once in her life grandmother was almost rude to Miss Wren.

  • In my young days such a thing was never heard of.

  • I am inclined to think that port has sensibly deteriorated since my young days.

  • In my young days it was the regular thing to bring in whisky-punch after dinner; and for many years I regularly took one tumbler and never had a second, not once to the best of my recollection.

  • It used to be much talked of in my young days.

  • He was busy helping his father to bore holes in the carved seats of the church, which were to hold sprigs of holly for the morrow--that was the idea of church decoration in my young days.

  • The fact being that, taking the average of the seven, they fairly represented their class--the governess class of my young days.

  • In my young days it was chiefly noted for its castle.

  • A learned man was held to be a ‘man of larnin’,’ a thing of which there was not too much in Suffolk in my young days.

  • In my young days Mr. John Sell Cotman chiefly represented Norwich, although in later times he became connected with King’s College, London.

  • This reference to painting reminds me of a feature of my young days, not without interest, in connection with the name of Cunningham—a name at one time well known in the religious world.

  • I must confess that the setting in which I have placed the famous old Serbian nonsense story, In my young days when I was an old, old man, is my own invention.

  • Last night she said to me: 'Stefan, you must go to the Princess and tell her the story that begins: In my young days when I was an old, old man.

  • I wish you would tell me the story that begins: In my young days when I was an old, old man.

  • Tell her the story that begins: In my young days when I was an old, old man.

  • In my young days, if you didn't eat, people told you you needed a dose of rhubarb.

  • In my young days,' Lady Lapith went on, 'I should have been laughed out of countenance if I'd said a thing like that.

  • She was inclined to fall into Aunt Katharine's ways and say, "In my young days, young people were not so blatant.

  • In my young days we were making jam at your age, and learning how to cure hams.

  • In my young days we weren't allowed to be extravagant and experiment in cooking whenever a party occurred.

  • There are plenty of Brownies," said the old lady, "or used to be in my mother's young days.

  • Many people used to go and consult the Old Owl at moon-rise, in my young days.

  • I had not noticed till that moment how much larger the hole was than it used to be in my young days.

  • The Brownies did all that in Granny's mother's young days.

  • As good men as you, son Thomas, would as soon have jumped off the crags, as spoken lightly of them, in my mother's young days.

  • I cannot help smiling when I see him in his uniform, for he reminds me of my young days, when I was a full private in Pudsey Dawson's Liverpool Volunteers.

  • Then for smuggling--fine times the runners used to have in my young days.

  • I went to a large one some years ago, in Manchester, and, on comparing it with those of my young days, I could hardly believe it was a fair.

  • The town boys were very cruel in my young days.

  • We used to live very happily there in my young days--though it wasn't such an easy life as that we have now.

  • I declare it quite makes me think of my young days, sitting out here.

  • I knew what it was to live near the surface in my young days," the Carrot went on; "but never felt solid enjoyment till I struck deeply down, where all is so rich and warm.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "young days" 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:
    about equal; thought necessary; young again; young artist; young child; young creature; young doctor; young farmer; young fella; young feller; young gentlemen; young gentlewoman; young knight; young leaves; young lieutenant; young life; young madam; young man; young mistress; young nobleman; young persons; young plants; young priest; young sir; young sirs; youngest daughter