tender age
Example Sentences
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“Her adulthood started a little bit early when she became my mom at the tender age of 17,” he wrote at the time.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 25, 2025
Entering parliament at the tender age of 30, he became leader of the D66 just a year later, the youngest ever to hold the post.
From Barron's • Oct. 29, 2025
Open at the tender age of 20 over Harry Vardon, a British golf titan credited with inventing the modern grip and swing.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2025
In 1980, at the relatively tender age of 24, David Sheff landed a journalistic coup in the form of a multipart interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2025
Even at the tender age when I didn’t yet know my real name, I was puzzled by the hypocrisy of celebrating a people everyone looked down on.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
