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Example sentences for "youngish"

Lexicographically close words:
youll; young; younge; younger; youngest; youngling; younglings; youngster; youngsters; younguns
  1. The youngish man and the girl were engaged in some sort of intimate lovers' dispute.

  2. The youngish man drew the girl in the tailor suit close to him and started through with her.

  3. The youngish man piloted the girl down, holding her hand, although both could have managed better by themselves.

  4. A third person stood there also, a youngish man of middle height, Mr. Donald Megbie, the well-known journalist and writer on social and religious matters.

  5. A youngish man, I understand, of about seven and twenty.

  6. Tom Slavin was a youngish fellow, and Joe's enquiry caused him to look redder than the hot-plate.

  7. High noon had just passed when a youngish man, curiously old in appearance, stood in front of me.

  8. He looked something between a youngish centenarian and a nonagenarian who had seen a good deal of trouble.

  9. The next moment Minnie and Sidney were treading the complicated measure; and simultaneously Henry ceased to be a youngish twenty-one and was even conscious of a fleeting doubt as to whether he was really only thirty-five.

  10. He was thirty-six next birthday, but he felt a youngish twenty-one.

  11. It seemed like one of the miracles of a divine intervention, that Dartrey should be free, suddenly free; and free while still a youngish man.

  12. A batch of prisoners had just arrived and were being questioned by an Intelligence officer: youngish men most of them, sallow-skinned, with any arrogance they may have possessed knocked out of them by now.

  13. We received a cheery welcome from a plump, youngish Australian colonel, and a fair-haired adjutant with blue sparkling eyes.

  14. Two girls about my age and a youngish man were the arrivals.

  15. They had an independent, easy way with them, and evidently considered the youngish man a person whom they had a right to boss.

  16. There you are, Tweedles," said the youngish man, addressing them both as he pitched his purchases into their laps.

  17. The woman who served him with tea near Uckfield describes him as a 'youngish man with a dark mustache, but otherwise clean shaven.

  18. You see I've settled up now with every one of my creditors except you and the youngish Boston lady, and I'm on my way to her house now.

  19. There's a youngish lady in Boston, and a very, very old gentleman out in Brookline, and the tiniest sort of a poor little sick girl in Cambridge.

  20. A little while after he came back accompanied by the farmer himself, a pale, languid, youngish man, who wore a stand-up collar and was smoking a cigar.

  21. A crowd of gaping children stood round the heap, and in the midst of the group stood a youngish woman, with four children, who were keeping tearful watch over the heap of trash.

  22. He maintained, with peculiar satisfaction, it seemed, that maiden modesty is a mere relic of barbarism, and that nothing could be more natural than for a man still youngish to handle a young girl naked.

  23. A youngish woman was working in the kitchen.

  24. I was thinking to-night how many youngish people were here who have grown up in the last ten years.

  25. In the gauzy and fluffy and varnishy little drawing-room Reardon found a youngish gentleman already in conversation with the widow and her daughter.

  26. Stirling, my sole protector, had vanished up the dark stairs of the house, following a stout, youngish woman in a white apron, who bore a candle.

  27. In the room to which we next came an old man and a youngish one were bent over a large, littered table, scribbling on and arranging pieces of grey tissue paper and telegrams.

  28. Then she saw coming towards her a youngish woman in a blue apron, with mild, reddened eyes.

  29. I can't tell what it will bring, but enough to put our youngish old friend easy for some time to come.

  30. The thinnish, youngish gentleman in sandy whiskers entered with a rush, but, seeing the Marquis, paused.

  31. A couple of warders, youngish military-looking men, with bristling moustaches, were sitting on wooden chairs by the fire and reading papers.

  32. Hancock is a youngish man of five and twenty.

  33. Then Mr. Oxford, the youngish Jew who had acquired Parfitts, who was Parfitts, also cut a picturesque figure on the face of London.

  34. It unnerved Priam, especially when the organist, a handsome youngish man with lustrous eyes, half turned and winked at one of his companions.

  35. Josie and Tudie went up First Avenue by Third Street to a Mrs. Craven, a rather youngish widow lady, who had two daughters of her own to educate, and who was very genteel and accomplished.

  36. They could not bring old Mary, indeed she would not come, but they had a rather youngish countrywoman whose husband had deserted her, and who was looking for a good home.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "youngish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.