tender age
Example Sentences
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She bought the first for $2.7 million at the tender age of 17, before picking up a nearby home for $6 million.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026
He did not think of himself as a precocious intellect but he took up a scholarship at the University of Chicago at the tender age of 15.
From BBC • Nov. 7, 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
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
The lives we had lived already, at such a young and tender age, gave way to many discussions about the future and what it held for us.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
