How To Use Youngish In A Sentence
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Over the years, I'd gone from what I fondly imagined to be a switched-on, youngish-minded mum to a rancid, middle-aged harridan, glaring at shrieking texting huddles in the street – youngsters I didn't even know, but would consider lightly birching.
It's all too easy to hate teens – try a little love instead | Barbara Ellen
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It's the confidential stenographer who has been tampered with — you remember that middle-aged, youngish-oldish woman, Tom?
THEFT
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His youngish stepmother, Joyce, volunteers to baby-sit gratis in view of his straitened circumstances and her recent widowing and resultant loneliness.
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Although it has a large-screen TV, Miso pulls a youngish, clubby clientele more than a sports crowd.
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Over the years, I'd gone from what I fondly imagined to be a switched-on, youngish-minded mum to a rancid, middle-aged harridan, glaring at shrieking texting huddles in the street – youngsters I didn't even know, but would consider lightly birching.
It's all too easy to hate teens – try a little love instead | Barbara Ellen
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He came from a youngish pedigree, the first foal of an unraced mare.
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I suppose it attracted a youngish crowd, but I am not so sure about drugs.
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All but Brendan, the youngish owner and barkeep, have tales to spin: tales of the supernatural in which they were involved but that may be merely delusional.
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Like tennis, it's an old sport and has likewise evolved its own distinctive language with charm aplenty to disarm this non-sporty, youngish curmudgeon.
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Instead of a mischievously lovable old coot, we get this barely Irish, youngish, oafish dude.
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The presentation of everything was always interesting, and the youngish international staff was obviously well-schooled with knowledge of the menu choices.
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A youngish red-haired man worked on a nearby farm and took to hanging around the bothies most evenings.
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My first thought was that perhaps they were turned away for their own protection, with it being quite a youngish bar.
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Iris opened it to find a youngish dark-haired woman outside, who looked disconcerted at the appearance of a stranger.
MURKY SHALLOWS
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This was a man named Harkly Young, a youngish, tobacco-chewing fellow of lowly origin and unlessoned manners, who was
Queed
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His gray hair is thick and cut in a youngish manner that sweeps both ways across his forehead.
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Gypsy Joe, his quarry, gave a cursory glance at the neat youngish undistinguished racegoer reading his racecard six feet away and felt none of the supernatural shudder of foreboding that his ancestry would have expected.
The Elvis Latte
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With her was a balding youngish man in a dinner jacket which had seen too many dinners; it fitted his portly little person like a mitt.
MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
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But thankfully, the intruder was a youngish man -- innocent if slightly unappealing overspill from the launderette next door.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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His youngish stepmother, Joyce, volunteers to baby-sit gratis in view of his straitened circumstances and her recent widowing and resultant loneliness.
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She's youngish, about thirty, but rumpled hair and baggy eyes make her look older and a bit grumpy.
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He was being passed by a youngish woman in khaki slacks and white running shoes and a yellow baseball hat tipped rakishly forward on her head, as if her hair were too bulky, too springy, to fit into it.
The Apparition
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His gray hair is thick and cut in a youngish manner that sweeps both ways across his forehead.
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But thankfully, the intruder was a youngish man -- innocent if slightly unappealing overspill from the launderette next door.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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My seatmate is a youngish widow with one young son.
A Silly Poor Gospel
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In the gauzy and fluffy and varnishy little drawing-room Reardon found a youngish gentleman already in conversation with the widow and her daughter.
New Grub Street
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He doesn't mind a youngish woman smiling and saying hello but he doesn't want an offer of assistance and until I see he needs it, I'm not going to either wound his pride or incur his wrath.
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He was a very kind, youngish, amiable scholar of great distinction, and a power in the university.
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I'll not deny I was rather smooth-faced and youngish, but I'd been a man amongst men many's the day, and it rankled me.
SIWASH
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In 15 years, when the 60's generation of priests are dead or retired and the numbers have hit bottom and start to grow again, the ones who are left will be youngish and orthodox.
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Someone like Plekhanov, or Herzl, albeit neither fit physically Herzl died youngish, and wouldn't be caught dead in a peasant shirt.
Madison windowscape and graffiti.
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But thankfully, the intruder was a youngish man -- innocent if slightly unappealing overspill from the launderette next door.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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The Sunday New York Times reported on the progress of the plot to pick youngish and extreme candidates.
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Even the youngish people around me seemed untowardly geeky and uncool, like their mothers had dressed them all.
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When you last saw me at Tempelhof on 15 May 1956 I was a youngish German woman who spoke good English.
THE INNOCENT
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As he ran up the stairs to his office a youngish man in a shantung shirt and dangerously tight jeans intercepted him.
THE ONLY GAME
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‘What's with these flies with the green heads?’ asked a youngish woman in a bathing suit while flailing at greenheads with both hands.
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A small, cocktails-focused restaurant called The Ace opened a couple months ago in the faithfully renovated remains of a long-abandoned Canadian-Chinese restaurant, and has been lined up most nights with youngish, urban hipsters who until recently would have been seen on Ossington or on the western reaches of Queen - anywhere but Roncesvalles, that is.
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in the bar, a youngish, sharp-eyed man was staring moodily into a gin and tonic
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With her was a youngish man in a dinner jacket.
