The boys on the Under Fifteens felt the conflict between the two worlds more strongly than their younger siblings, if only because they had spent more time in their home countries. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Harry didn’t so much worry me, but what if the younger brothers discovered that Granddaddy was a trove of weird and fascinating facts about Indian fighting, the larger carnivores, hot-air ballooning? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

If finishing college and becoming an artist had been a dream for my father, he quickly redirected his hopes, using his wages to help pay for his younger brother’s degree in architecture instead. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Fannie reported that her younger daughters attended school that year, that she was a widow and mother of four, and that she worked as a seamstress. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

It made you seem older than sixteen and made me feel way younger than eleven. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Living in a Black Belt district, he is younger than most boys of his age, for he has not come in contact with the wide variety and depths of life. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I was younger one of my favorite activities was imagining alternate-universe versions of myself. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had two younger daughters, and Alice, the eldest, was seventeen. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There's no Mirjam, but there are girls her age or younger, surrounded by young couples and middle-aged men. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It makes her look much younger than almost-eleven, and makes me feel like I’m a babysitter. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I'm surprised at how young she looks, even younger than when I first met her. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The hideous gray uniform made her look much younger than she really was, despite the fact that her womanly curves showed through the design. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in jail, I had Malli for a friend, who was so much younger but never asked questions as ignorant as Junaid's. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

After the War, Cudn Vanna married three more husbands and lived to bury them all, even the one that was forty years younger than she was. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It be like meeting other women—older and younger, living and no more breath. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Beto left his younger, happier self by the river and walked back up the path, searching the memory for the tree Naomi had taken him to. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She’s younger than me by years, and when she sees me, she doesn’t look away. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A small boy—younger than Alan—lies in soiled clothes, his eyes sunken and closed, long lashes flickering. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The inmates ran into a farmhouse and seized an eighteen-year-old girl and her younger brother. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Don’t open the stove door,” he cautioned the younger children. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled in her lips, as if she was going to chew them, and she looked so much younger. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It might have looked a little like Mrs. Klein when she was younger, so perhaps it was a brother. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

This one was a little younger than me, maybe twelve or thirteen. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Another little girl, much younger than the first, sat in front of a deck of cards at a picnic table covered with a polka-dot cloth, a friendly looking couple beside her. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

His younger brother, Thomas, also had the disease but survived. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Back on the platform, they found Lily and Hugo, Rose’s younger brother, having an animated discussion about which House they would be sorted into when they finally went to Hogwarts. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They seemed written by a younger, more passionate Jorge, a man she never knew well. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when the younger kids weren’t around, Mom would tell Chess things she wouldn’t tell them. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Cymbeline was two years younger than her brother, and Magdalys thought she was the most beautiful person in the whole world. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He would have thought her younger than twenty-three. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When he was younger it was ‘Boy’ —but now it was ‘Uncle.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

People like my father couldn’t see that the younger generation wanted Cuba to change for the better. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I used to like her when I was younger, but she’s become a bitter, resentful woman over the years. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I open the door to a cluster of people- young, younger than I am, and all sporting factionless armbands—gathered around a young man on the ground. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He had never seen another fox before, but he knew: younger and smaller and a female, but fox. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

That kind of admiration between men was either effeminate or disrespectful, and then a little shameful, if the object was a younger man. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They clicked on the pavement with the sound of a younger woman’s stride. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

With ashen faces, some of the younger, prettier girls reach into the bags we have vomited into and scoop out handfuls of it to smear on their hair and clothes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until the visit I had remained apprehensive that he would look gloomy, being unhappy that we had seized part of the glory that should have gone in full to him and his younger colleagues. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

In fact, Mitch, you remind me of someone I knew who also liked to keep things to himself when he was younger.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She, in turn, suffered more, having no one to help her keep the younger ones in line. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A slighdy younger Old Babylonian clay tablet, dating from 2000-1700 bc, gives basic details on how to learn and time a four-stringed fretted lute, including instructions for the notes to play. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The sun had set, and I could hear my younger brothers preparing for bed, so I reckoned it to be eight o’clock or so. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Robin was a little younger than Ivy’s mom, and she always wore stuff that had fruit patterns on it, but not in a weird way. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was remembering the times when they were younger. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She’s a couple of years younger than me, but we were very close. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He grabbed his winter coat and soft, peaked brown trench cap before rushing out of the service quarters on the factory grounds where he lived with his father and younger brother. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She looked like a younger version of Zafoona, but her hair was cut fashionably short and her eyes were leaf green. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I have two brothers: Mike is one year older, and Lindell is younger; and three sisters: Sophia and Precious are older, and Erica is younger. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

James was as ruthless and brutal as any white man but he was the portrait of moderation compared to his younger brother. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It says Brian realized he had two choices: Quit the team as he’d done in a similar situation when he was younger or think of something else quick. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She looked younger than I’d seen her in a long time, maybe since before the accident. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Black told us about how he used to watch Brother cut when he was younger. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Around this same time, my parents learned that my younger brother Simba had started to beat up other kids to give him money or to bring extra food for him to school. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When Ptolemy I started to show evidence of favoring succession to one of his younger sons, the future Ptolemy II Philadelphus, Demetrius opined in favor of the interests of Eurydice, the old king’s first wife. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, I was constantly the butt of everybody’s jokes. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He is younger than most of the other men on the crew. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I busied myself by studying the shadows on the ground, the corners of buildings, and how, as people crossed the courtyard, their shadows imitated everything they did, just as younger children imitated older ones. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

There were too many of us for adults to take care of, so the adults put some of the older boys like me in charge of the younger ones. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was younger than you, me and June and May—and April, too, because she was still alive then—all of us would visit our grandmother for the whole summer. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malachy is in that class and I don’t want to be in a class with my brother who is a year younger. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Chess guessed there was a big difference between him being just one year younger than Natalie and Emma being three years younger. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Especially the younger ones, who ain’t built up a callus to it yet. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A girl walked in after him, tall and thin with long red hair, just a little younger than Mark. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He gathered up the younger children and walked off down the street with them. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prince Dain, about to be crowned the High King, does not have time to indulge in the petty sport of pretending to take me into his service just because a callow younger brother wishes it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Maya would go to sleepaway camp in the Catskills, and then on vacation with her parents and younger sister. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

They both were younger than Minli; she realized that they were twins — their round faces, dancing eyes, and pink cheeks were exactly the same. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He was a decent, sweet-tempered fellow without any prejudice and he became like a younger brother to me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He steps closer to Charlise as if he’s about to grab her hand, and this little exchange makes me raise my eyebrows, because Colin and Charlise used to hate each other when we were younger. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Hawkers, girls much younger than I, defied the school gate men, edging closer and closer to the cars to offer peeled oranges and bananas and groundnuts, their moth-eaten blouses slipping off their shoulders. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Goodness no! We used to go out. When you were younger. And I guess I realized that we hadn’t been out in a long time. And I’ve missed it.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Her younger stepsister paused and gave her a skeptical look, but she did not ask again. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was the easy one when I was younger. Now I’ve got three kids and I’m alone.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The two younger people working with him, George and Julie, were graduate students in biology. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Pilar Ternera, who lived alone at that time with her two younger children, did not ask him any questions. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

When I told my cousin that I had decided to report him she confided that a younger friend of ours had also been molested. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Next, a boy wearing a fuzzy white Kangol cap, who was slightly younger and shorter than Train Ear but definitely older than the twins, squeezed himself past the lanky teen and into the car. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He’s a year younger than me and goes to university in the city. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Then it would be better if your younger boyfriend wasn’t grounded so he could take you on a date to the drive-in and buy you presents.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My three younger brothers, my baby sister, and quite a number of my cousins had followed my lead. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I don’t feel younger than these people. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I used to, when I was hiding here, I kept thinking of when I was littler, you know, younger, before I was good friends with Link. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy sitting across from me seemed no older than I was, perhaps even younger. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She made me think of my sister, though, because Amanda would have been the same age, only one month younger. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure what he was talking about when I was younger, but now I get it—I don’t think my life is too hard-knock after all. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it didn’t go off for a matter of minutes, during which we sat tensely, with frozen-faced smiles, while we tried to keep the younger children from squirming. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t sure she could do this herself, but she was watching how the younger generation pulled it off. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Lupita asked herself for the third time, as she looked over her shoulder at her mother, who stared sadly at the three younger children lined up against the wall. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

She held the hand of a younger child whose eyes were thick with yellow mucus; it was a common ailment of new ones, quickly healed with herbal mixtures. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She looks younger with her hair down, the shadows around her eyes more pronounced. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

By not telling Father Olufemi about his plans, Kamau was helping him, but also giving up the one thing he had fought so hard to hold on to—his younger brother. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, Jack also teased Jakob, his brother, who was five years younger than he. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I only said he might be,” said James, grinning at his younger brother. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Not as silly as Hirohito spinning around but too old to wave my hand frantically as all the younger kids around me were doing. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three of them, maybe a little younger than us. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He never talked about it, so all I have to go on are hints from my mother, who told me that, in his younger years, Grandpa-down-the-hill had been violent, with a hair-trigger temper. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I can’t stay long, I must get back,” said Lupin, beaming around at them all: He looked years younger than Harry had ever seen him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Plate, mate, fate, plate, ” I say as Gertie, biting my lips, gurgling, playing not so much Elliott’s adorable younger sister but, like, an idiot monkey starved of nutrients. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He was two years younger than I was, but he was about fifty times as intelligent. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Her best friend exhaled, his eyes sliding between the cold rage and a younger hurt. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

But that experience made Mommy bear down on the younger ones like me even more. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The younger ones make such an effort to be funny, she says. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once, when she was younger, Amah had taken her down to the village to see some traveling entertainers, and Pinmei felt as if she were watching a performance again. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was also why he had organized the house on an efficiency basis, so that it would operate smoothly without supervision; so that the older children would be responsible for the younger ones. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though they led by a goal, they knew they were being embarrassed by the younger team. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He took the younger man by the shoulders, began propelling him back to the door. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The younger was a likeable-looking man of thirty, clearly an American. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind Lord Wyman stood two younger women, sisters by the look of them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t mean because he’s white or because he’s younger than me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked shell-shocked—the younger ones especially—as if they hadn’t fully grasped the unfolding nightmare. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Holding the baby in one arm, rocking him to stop his crying, the widow pointed to the three younger children. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“Just the dame school. For the younger children, in the summer months. With you to help me I can take more pupils.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Reverend and Mrs. Price and your children!” cried the younger man in the yellow shirt. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked suddenly younger, energized, full of purpose. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It peeks curiously over the bigger moon’s shoulder, like a younger sibling. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I went outside with the blood all over me and saw my mother, father, older and younger brother. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, Mom and Dad always tucked me in. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want the younger ones to look up to me when I was a loser. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Normally the films had talking dogs or kids who were younger—but already smarter—than us. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He had deep-set, brooding eyes, and his face was more thoughtful, more solemn, than his younger brother’s, a face as suggestive of early maturity as his brother’s was of lingering boyishness. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Eating part of the root will only make me younger, he thought. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“We have to follow protocol,” the younger man says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And the younger bears, was she talking to them? The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The boy and girl were even younger than they had seemed at night, maybe even sixteen. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other wolf, he is a boy, younger than me. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

She goes off to join her friends, a couple of younger girls who are just as well-dressed as she is. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Why do you fool with these politics?” he once asked Oppenheimer’s younger brother, Frank, a member of the Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As for the aging of the population, because of heavy immigration to New York in the 1980s, the city was getting younger in the 1990s, not older. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus she was in a lower grade and a whole year younger than he. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

From this deficiency of nourishment resulted an abuse, which pressed hardly on the younger pupils: whenever the famished great girls had an opportunity, they would coax or menace the little ones out of their portion. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The younger children scoured the beach for pieces of wood. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Lorena’s mom are the most mismatched couple in the world, because he’s fifteen years younger than she is, making him only ten years older than Lorena. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Dorcas, at sixteen, has yet to wear silk hose and her shoes are those of someone much younger or very old. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His parents and younger brothers are all in El Salvador, and he misses them. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

One of the younger kids snickered before being shushed by his older sister, who looked to be around my age. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Even their little sister, Gina, who was a few years younger, emanated a robust femininity that I came to think of simply as Gore-like. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They were accompanied by a middle-aged woman who had been Aurelia’s nurse when she was younger, and who now lived in retirement in the palace and assumed privileges that no one had given her. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Tellwright did, in fact, pay for cooking classes for Joyce, and she took them herself, right alongside the younger woman. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

On the contrary, the older player always showed the younger one affection and respect, often sending him friendly little notes and asides. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra saw little old couples tear it up, putting some of the awkward younger folks to shame. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

And there were two younger children, a girl and boy, sitting on the floor eating with their fingers. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was convinced that one day, little old Persian me would get famous and I would get to play her younger, less attractive, somewhat ethnically ambiguous sister in movies. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But I felt terribly embarrassed when Daddy made my two younger brothers go with me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was sixty-four, but aside from his gray curls, he seemed decades younger, with smooth hazelnut-brown skin and youthful green eyes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But then the older students would tell us that was exactly what the guardians had told them when they were younger, and that we’d be told the ghastly truth soon enough, just as they were. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Dad, with the car finally stowed away, appeared on deck, three of the younger children were sobbing. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The younger sat up on his bed eternally cracking his fingers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The younger birds began crowding over to the edge of the roof and looking down at the great canyons beneath them. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Though they are far more experienced, army surgeon Dr. Charles Sabin Taft and Dr. Albert King defer to their younger colleague because Dr. Leale was first on the scene. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

But one night soon after I began to get better, Auntie Fatmata made one of the younger children go to the bathroom on my hair and face while I was asleep. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Dicey and James each carried the weight of a younger one floating beside. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I listen, shaking my head at the strangeness of the priestly conversation, another priest comes running up, younger than the others, pulling his outer robe on as he comes. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Callow had been a logger in his younger years, and like most lumbermen he believed that cedar was only good for making shakes and shingles. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They were a good bit younger than me and I was glad to give them some work. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Exactly the same thing as you would—that is, if I were younger and not so old and stiff.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Other times, the younger boys sat by rocks weeping and telling us that the rocks were their dead families. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Once the younger students had filed out, Ms. Udell spoke to the fourth graders and the family members in the audience. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

This left the younger boys to lead units of five hundred to six hundred boys. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps not all his younger colleagues would have concurred with his calculation of the balance, but at least he was trying to strike one. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

My uncle Howard was my mother’s younger brother. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She was the second of three daughters and remembered how her younger sister had died of tuberculosis one winter; they’d buried her on Indian Knob Hill in the Lutheran part of the cemetery. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Von Linden has a daughter only a little younger than me. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Often they are younger sons, who will not inherit their father’s lands. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Protect their younger siblings from the harsh realities of the world. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She seemed younger than the rest of the board members. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Elizabeth’s older brother, David, is babysitting all three boys: the twins and Elizabeth’s younger brother, too. They’re going to make popcorn and watch superhero movies.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

When they were younger, the sisters used to joke that they would likelier be virgins than find a palm tree in their neck of the woods. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

A boy not much younger than she was, caught up in a war he hadn’t chosen for himself. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Tally couldn’t tell if she was younger or older than the Boss, but she certainly wasn’t as terrifying to look at. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Two years younger than me and look at him! Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the younger warders took me quite far afield, and we would walk on the beach and even stop at a cafe and have tea. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She never forgot her irrational rage at the other two younger children who had for some reason been spared. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean,” he said, “in the old days, before homes were completely fireproofed” Suddenly it seemed a much younger voice was speaking for him. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

This totally used to happen to me when I was younger. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She was younger than the others, slim and pretty, with long silvery hair. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But he looked younger now; like a boy just past twenty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"This is no way to speak in front of our noble guest, Father," one of his younger sons said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She says it reminds her of when I was younger and needed her. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

We used to spar when we were younger, with practice sticks. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

If it had not been for her hardened cheekbones and a few missing teeth, she would have looked much younger than she really was. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

By fun, Ms. Udell was referring to the play version of Charlotte’s Web that the two fourth-grade classes would perform for the younger grades. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The Fifteens, badly outplayed by the younger boys, held the lead, 1-0. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Newt was taller than Alby too, but looked to be a year or so younger. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I saw two kids younger than me working on a snowman, except it was so cold, the snow wasn’t packing and it looked more like a snow heap with branches sticking out for arms. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Behind him sat a younger woman with a headscarf, her hands around the man’s waist. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

God, he was a good sheepdog when he was younger.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Sandra were closer when they were younger, but they were still cool. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

As for their children, the younger ones had been mewling babes for most of his years at Winterfell. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And he took the meat out of the pot with his two fingers and threw it upon the ground and was heedless of the younger lad’s howling. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Now he crept along the wall looking at a man who was as tall as he was—and forty years younger. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks no younger then, but there is an openness in his face that I have never seen. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Two younger girls that seemed closer to Anya’s age followed, one looking just as enthused as the adults, and one looking sour. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

My mother and younger sisters met me at the airport with a bouquet of flowers and a single balloon that read “Sweet 16.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Romance was floating in the air like moondust and the two lovers, for some reason we younger ones could never understand, did not seem to be very keen on us tagging along with them. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a young woman, younger than herself, no older than Moon Orchid the day the sisters parted. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

People had raised their eyebrows when Ali, a man who had mem­orized the Koran, married Sanaubar, a woman nineteen years younger, a beautiful but notoriously unscrupulous woman who lived up to her dishonorable reputation. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were three of us preschoolers, but the other two were younger than me, so I played by myself. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even the younger Richardsons had it, this sureness in themselves. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This time, a younger white man opens the door. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"I told Trademaster that I wanted to be younger, and handsome. I wanted Stocktender's widow to fall in love with me." Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The younger and smaller cub, still lacking a name, spent the night alone in his cage, in the city menagerie where he was to live. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

"As I feared. Ah, well. I believe I was younger than you the first time I got truly and sin-cerely drunk." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Fat Barry has brought his son, who is the only person in the room younger than I am. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She felt a certain amount of responsibility to Ernestine and the younger girls, since she knew they would never be emancipated until she paved the way. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also have to cheer up my mom and my younger brother. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I guess the paper that he had would of made me seem younger, too young for the World War. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That knocked all of us younger kids down at once, with fevers and vomiting. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

We did have one blood relative in Princeton, Dandy’s younger sister, whom we knew as Aunt Sis. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The name of the other, the younger brother, the father, his name is not known. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They didn’t mean well. The older one is an unpleasant conniver like her mother and the younger one is a simpleton. It never entered their heads to mean well.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Definitely not like they were on their way to school, but more like fighting wolf pups, batting and nipping at one another for exercise, especially the younger two. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

But mostly, it was freaky to look back into the eyes of the younger me. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The younger girl started to cry, her hands hanging useless at her sides. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The night he had stopped by her father’s party and spotted her in the shadows with one of her father’s younger, but still way older than her, staff members. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When we dug our foxholes in the yard, the monks did not seem upset or displeased, though the younger one performed a washing motion with his hands. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He settled back in his place on the bench among the younger squires and drank. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A woman—younger than Val and pretty in the neon bar light—barely noticed Toby as she came up to the bar and asked for a pitcher of beer. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It opened the doors for the younger generation. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The sun above the ruins of Charn had looked older than ours: this looked younger. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

With his damp hair combed back and his face clean-shaven, he could have looked a good two or three years younger than he had the day before, but his eyes told a different story. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In addition to the knife fight when he was younger, Wes had been arrested a few years back after being caught stealing a car. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

There was a massive stone wall with a doorway in it, and in the farther part of the garden, the trees were younger and the planting less formal. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And even though he was younger than the rest of the staff, Diana knew Tim was right to be worried about her father’s bill. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He looks years older; he looks years younger. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

After twenty years of working separately, the younger members of both groups began to see the wisdom of joining ranks and working on suffrage together. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Later, in Paris, I was to meet Richard Wright’s widow, Ellen, and a younger daughter, Rachel. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents, my older brothers and sister work in the rice field while we younger kids stay behind to work in the community garden. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Regrettable. And understandable. I have a younger sister myself. Your mistress, am I to assume she supports the rebel cause?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here was a girl sixteen years old; six years younger than he. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His sister is a few grades younger than us. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I look across the dining room, and three of the younger people—the big girl, the girl with dark hair and blue streak, and the blond girl with cuts—are all sitting together. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Most of them were our age and younger during the war. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

His smile, as he leads the younger boys around campus, should perhaps have a hint of a sneer underneath. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

And ‘Mei,’ this is common mei, as in meimei, ‘younger sister.’ The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s far younger than I expected, closer to my age than Sana’s—which might explain why she bristles at his tone. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

My opponent was a few years younger than me, smaller, and looked like he’d only been playing a year or two at most. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Alice, my sister who is two years younger than I am, is going to live on the mountain with me—for better or worse. “The way I look at it, she’s here by default. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack saw no one younger than he was. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The younger man hesitated, dug in his pocket and tossed a handful of change into the cup. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like she said, we are the heroes and it is up to us to let the younger generation know what’s going on. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

One of the children was a girl, younger than Alby, still with her mother’s arms around her. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When he spoke, they listened,” and not just in the way that younger kids in that community did when coaches talked. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The younger one looked up at me and gasped. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She was neither older nor younger than She had been in the beginning. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Met Bong is training the younger children to protect themselves now. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many look about the same size as me as they rush over with naked younger siblings bouncing on their backs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smirked and turned to the younger woman, who was standing by the door, arms folded and eyes still downcast, as if waiting for orders. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was dark-skinned with a muscular frame that made him seem much younger than he was. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Perhaps more fitting was a short note from one of the younger monks in the monastery: “Gentle, free-handed, and kindly....Flowers he loved.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In Tom Smith’s younger days, the Indians would watch him picking his way over the open plains, skirting the mustang herds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a place of bugs aplenty! It is sheltered from rains and winds,” the younger spider said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Sad faces filled the audience, and younger kid swiped their eyes on their sleeves. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Three members of the Senile Brigade wearing beat-up old cowboy hats sat in the front seat, and another younger man neither Bloom nor Linda recognized squatted in the back, smoking a cigarette. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me he was twenty-one, but I would have put money on him being younger. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She appeared, vividly, to grow younger with each step. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“It will not play tricks on you. As for you, Ranofer,” he turned interested eyes on the younger boy, “come with me. I have a task for you.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The voices of the younger of the Young Men burst into the night; and the laughter of damsels; a youth yelling, “There is the Negro boy.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But tonight the younger women were huddling together under the quilts, the ghost room with its door open steps away. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Haydn was so adept at sculpting a tune from small beginnings that the younger Mozart and Beethoven simply copied the technique in their own way. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Walking next to Collins was his slightly younger sister, Ethel, a plump but pretty registered nurse who was almost always by his side. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Noor took a piece of cheese and looked at her younger sister with a raised eyebrow. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

First he said good-by to all the younger penguins. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

The younger children sat in a line beside the boy, waiting to hear. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another family went over to comfort her—a father, mother, two older girls, and two younger boys. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t had a successful season, but they still weren’t about to lose to the younger team. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

My mom's older sister and my dad's younger sister had become close friends after marrying into the same family. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

They were all bruisers and brawlers, culled from the younger members of the Dregs, the people Kaz trusted most. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Uncle Jack, who is Auntie Ying’s younger brother, is very keen on a company that mines gold in Canada. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As older brothers, fathers, and neighbors were drafted into the service, younger boys and girls took over various jobs. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Cora had seen little children, ones younger than Maisie, use the same primer for their lessons. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then everybody climbed into rickshaws, the younger children sitting next to their amahs. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Volpe tells me about his younger years, I imagine them taking place in black-and-white, like in an old movie. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The younger Deborah said she was glad that when she died, she wouldn’t have to tell her mother the story of everything that happened with the cells and the family, because Henrietta already knew. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The younger Halley, however, straddled the transition and produced some of his best work in the new century, after the Newtonian revolution. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The older children of the family would have been surprised and, according to their several natures, pleased or outraged by their father’s consideration of these two younger ones. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ah, then, then Your almost-brother love will cool; The cousin smile must grind out lean Where younger cousins rule. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The girls, they drink all this milk with cow hormones,” I say between bites, “and they develop a lot younger.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Audiences may well have flocked to new, younger Puccinis, had they come along, but composers didn’t want to be new Puccinis any more. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

When they came by the window again, I could see Ronnie’s sweating face framed in concentration, counting out the waltz steps while Ralph struggled to lead his fat younger brother around the room. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

A younger woman who couldn’t have been a few years older than them had said that without a proper permit, they couldn’t be associated with the farmer’s market. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The boy told the younger man what he had seen, and the man asked him to wait there. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At ten, I was one of the younger kids on the bus, though there were certainly a few kids younger. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I managed to break away from him for a moment just as the younger of the two weeping women spotted me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

And so the task of watching over my younger brother and me fell to my sister. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The hammer lands over and over again, on his arms, shoulders, and knees, before the younger woman moves toward him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Try as he might, Axel can’t picture Dr. Taylor M. Martin as younger. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Throughout childhood my younger sister said, “When I grow up, I want to be a slave,” and my parents laughed, encouraging her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was stabbed. There’s two fellas they’re looking for. One older, one younger.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

When he returned, he would be much younger than the one who stayed on earth. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting at the control board was my dad the engineer, years younger, examining a printout no larger than a grocery receipt. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

To the seaside they went, after much discussion, and though Beth didn’t come home as plump and rosy as could be desired, she was much better, while Mrs. March declared she felt ten years younger. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if having lost his brother and his parents when he was younger made him care more about people. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

In my younger years I had learned that grown men cry only when they have no other choice. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

An indigenous girl a couple of years younger than me— maybe twelve or thirteen—appears at the door to the patio, her hands red and wet, probably from washing clothes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, she didn’t have many ideas; but then, she was younger and hadn’t had a chance to learn much about ancient history. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though she looked no younger, her face had the same ageless quality. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The two families really don’t like each other, except for all us younger cousins because we don’t know any better. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But instead of waiting my turn to use any of these toys, I took my frustrations out on a younger girl who was also named Ashlee. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The rest of us had won it at least once—even Hugo, who was six years younger than Harry and L He’d won it three times already. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Are any of your younger sisters out, Miss Bennet?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Because my parents were so high up in the government, my brothers attended one of the best private schools, and my younger brother and I had our own baby-sitters. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

From that day, Lord Randyll ignored Sam, devoting all his time to the younger boy, a fierce, robust child more to his liking. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If she did have an elilith, she wouldn’t want a serpent swallowing its tail like Tzara and many of the younger women had who’d come of age after the liberation. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

"He told me his father was king, but not ... I thought him perhaps a younger son." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Klaus walked over to the lump of curtains to wake up his younger sister. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

In her younger years, with prescience and good management, Mammachi had collected all her falling hair in a small, embroidered purse that she kept on her dressing table. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one sounded much younger and much more human, like a teenaged mortal girl getting exasperated with her friends at the mall. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Clare had the crib, and her younger sister, Lucy, slept in the master bedroom. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

"The ones you need are hard to find ... so young, to know their letters . . . perhaps older . . . not die so easy : . "No. The younger are safer . . . treat them gently ..." "... if they kept their tongues . . ." ". . . the risk . A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He is in his fifties but looks many years younger. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He also had become friends with Kyung’s twenty-something children: Eunice, a human rights activist he had met in Seoul, and her younger brother, David, a recent Yale graduate also interested in human rights. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The son sought to calm her—berating us for troubling her—and now the younger child began his bleating and wailing, that he would not leave his father’s house. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The Bible has been a comfort, and one of the younger girls has even started a school for the little ones. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Some girls and boys obliterate their rooms as they grow older, thinking they have to banish all their younger incarnations in order to convincingly inhabit a new one. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

"I barely saw Mrs. Westing. Violet was a few years younger than I, doll-like and delicate. She was not allowed to play with other children. Especially the skinny, long-legged, black daughter of the servants." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

My younger brother, Roman, can't explain why paint melting on his tongue feels good. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, he took me to the zoo—all I can remember is the authority in his voice as he told me about the lions and the bears. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Beside the woman sat a girl, a little younger maybe than the twins, but not much. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The younger Kaltenbrunner was an avowed liberal and had no interest in discussing his father, the camps, or anything else concerning Nazism or anti-Semitism. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The younger children were presented in groups: all the Sevens, for example, receiving their front-buttoned jackets; the Nines, brought to the stage and given their first bicycles to great applause. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A slightly younger, slightly thinner Hollis was standing in front of Niagara Falls. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He's only younger than Needles by a year, so it's more like they're twins, but the kind that look different. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He wrested the branch away from the younger boy. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Now she was the senior squinting across the room at the younger girls. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He’s one of a pack of siblings, the second son, a younger brother, a proper and well-behaved middle child. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He yawns at meals, is short-tempered with the younger children. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Since the day we were born, twins like Jacob and Esau, the younger had ruled the older. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new Mag- nar of Therm was a younger, shorter version of his father- lean, balding, clad in bronze greaves and a leather shirt sewn with bronze scales. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Louie was twenty months younger than his brother, who was everything he was not. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

When it was off, he looked younger and nicer and more like a countryman and less like a London cabman. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was not like the way a wife loves a husband, but more like the way a sister protects a younger brother. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wooden desks of the younger children sat closest to it, but the whole room felt toasty. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But he seemed considerably younger than his sister, with all his teeth and hair. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

All the while, neighbors and relatives popped in to say hello to the younger Obamas and to congratulate us on our engagement. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Grandpa, do we not face troubles today?” the younger spider said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“But that’s not fair,” I said, sounding younger than I felt. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Her mother or father would scoop her up along with her younger sister, Janet, and take them down to the damp and musty cellar. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Not like younger men who talked nonsense probably, not meaning half they said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Standing outside, I found there was only one person taller than I, and that I was only a few years younger than any of them. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the mornings when Ashley and Tevin got dropped off at school and us younger ones got dropped off at day care, my baby sister would cry inconsolably. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

After that, I was always younger than the other kids in my class. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Dorian forgot how little he looked like his father—it was his younger brother, Hollin, who took after the king, with his broad frame and his round, sharp-eyed face. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

MacGregor entered, looking thirty years younger than the last time Matt had seen him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he is a generation younger than my father, both he and his elder brother Max always symbolized a genuine and authentic continuity throughout the struggle. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some lied and said they’d gotten rich, or sent pictures of themselves as younger men; at any rate, wives came across the ocean. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I remember sitting on the damp pavement next to the pool and seeing my mother, in the spectators’ bleachers, holding my younger sister on her lap. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and her younger sister were separated from their parents when they arrived at the death camp. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had been brought up alone with Morgause, because he was so much younger than the rest of the family. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neeley, who was a year younger than she, grew suddenly and got to be a head taller. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was undisguised greed in his thin face as he watched the younger of the two girls swinging higher and higher than her sister. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He looks younger without it, and the weariness in the lines around his eyes is more pronounced. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He was a young fellow, younger than the lieutenant and the staff sergeant, but he was bald and his countenance made him look much older. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Downstairs I see kids my age, some younger ones too with their mothers, sitting at smaller tables, looking though books. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

George was only a few years younger than the girls smiling at her from the glossy pages. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Hyung,” I began, using the title younger brothers use for older brothers. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He wore jeans and a T-shirt, and with his brooding expression he looked almost human—like the younger version of Luke I’d seen in the vision, pleading with Hermes to tell him his fate. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

"Beth, you shouldn't make up stories," Sansa corrected the younger girl, gently stroking her hair to take the harshness out of her words. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Amar knows that my father taught me how to start a car with just the wires when I was younger. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“He’s ten years younger than me,” I say, straightening up indignantly. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

However, one night I overheard an argument concerning Claudius, the king’s younger brother. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I mean, Mom is spending her days at the clinic cracking backs, and Dad is meeting with other teachers and professors to ready a makeshift school, beginning with the younger kids. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

There’s a picture of Dr. King and a much younger Mr. Reuben. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

All I know is that it affects her kidneys and makes her too weak to watch my younger brothers, or do anything for that matter. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You know,” said Granddad, “I’m not getting any younger, despite my good looks.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Already, apart from many younger lads, more than a hundred sturdy hobbits were assembled with axes, and heavy hammers, and long knives, and stout staves; and a few had hunting-bows. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Blanca, weaker than her mother although she was taller, younger, and heavier, sighed when she was awake and sobbed while she slept, in an uninterrupted lament that had begun the day of the beating. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The younger children looked, saw nothing, and asked, “What is it?” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas, his attention suddenly snapped up by a new detail, turned to face the younger boy. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Arek said that Jack’s uncle Sigmund, his father’s younger brother, was alive and staying in a displaced persons’ camp near Munich. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped back and looked at it, gazing at it as if she were remembering Wood playing with it when he was younger. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Policeman,” said the younger boy, and stepped in beside his brother. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She found Salvador sitting on the edge of the high curb, talking with a younger boy. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Winston whined and grizzled, made futile demands for food, fretted about the room, pulling everything out of place and kicking the wainscoting until the neighbors banged on the wall, while the younger child wailed intermittently. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Stories circulated that she had conjured grave magicks to make herself look far younger than she actually was and that beneath her youthful face lurked the scowl of an elderly hag. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

A lot of people thought so, because she was eight years younger than me, and my parents weren’t “trying for another child,” which is kind of gross if you think about it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Several of the younger boys with whom she had been on eye-gouging terms only a few years ago made self-conscious conversation with her. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Hop in,” she told me, “and hurry it up. I’m not gettin’ any younger.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Following the doctor came a younger man who knelt beside him and waited. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma dropped out of elementary school to care for her younger sisters. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

The family was represented by Mr. Clutter’s younger brother, Arthur, who had driven a hundred miles to be there. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The younger rebel raised my head with his bayonet, still in its scabbard. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Her younger daughter with Ernest, Anna, whom a relative had been raising since Mollie became seriously ill, had died. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When he’d been moved to tears at home, when he was much younger, his mother had known what to do: she gathered him into her arms and rocked him gently till the crying faded away. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t that Jinny hadn’t tried to teach the younger girl to read. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Fannie had one older brother, a younger sister, and three younger brothers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

His wife was approximately a hundred years younger than him and attractive in her own way, and was mostly quiet. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked much younger and smaller than I had imagined—like a little boy in his green shorts and shirt. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They almost invariably did their hours on Recreation Duty first, helping with the younger ones in a place where they still felt comfortable. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

There are lots of pictures of Daddy when he was younger wearing mink coats, playing with expensive toys, flashing jewelry, and Grandpa Don isn’t in any of the pictures. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“I was always a very good pianist when I was younger. Remember all those recitals I had?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They were younger than most of the children by the tower, Lyra thought, and she joined them in the water, with Pantalaimon as a little silver fish glittering beside her. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older people around, like my mother, had two children, and the younger, more prosperous ones had four, but nobody but Dodo was on the verge of a seventh. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The fugitive was younger and stronger, but the man held his ground and seized Caesar by the waist. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

According to my mother, as a younger man Southside had made a point of pumping jazz into his seven children, often waking everyone at sunrise by playing one of his records at full blast. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When the excitement over the message had died down, and the wedding present had been found, some round games were immediately arranged for the younger members of the party. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a few seconds he was followed by his younger brother Billy, who at age twelve was noisier and had an annoying habit of skimming rocks across the grass at anything that moved. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

When an old Aché woman became a burden to the rest of the band, one of the younger men would sneak behind her and kill her with an axe-blow to the head. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ordinarily if anybody was saying hush up around here, it was Aunt Loma, despite she was fourteen years younger than my mother. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to leave Atlanta, Mama,” Ben heard his younger sister whine to his mother. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, a younger cousin who had tried to imitate him had fallen down the red clay staircase in Ashoke’s house and broken an arm. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They need to learn a few things first before they start making so many remarks about the younger generation! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The younger woman is looking restlessly into the distance, as though she just wants to get this over with and leave. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she said: “I’d like to be able to say no. But to be honest, I did smoke for a little while. For about two years, when I was younger.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

By then, my grandparents had a volatile relationship, plagued by the fact that my grandfather had engaged in an extramarital affair with a younger woman. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The younger brother rudely ordered me to look the other way. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The younger man came out with a dirty cardboard box and set it on the counter. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Blackwell, who was seven years younger than Stone, promised her that marriage did not have to involve submission of the wife to the husband. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Robbie Ray, Mr. Ray’s younger brother, was the MC for the funeral, kind of like how the preacher is when you have one at a church. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Clyde Livingston, who had once lived at the shelter when he was younger, was going to speak and sign autographs. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The younger children appear bewildered by this litany, but those of us older than six or seven had already heard a version of it several times at the orphanage before we left. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I taught today,” she explains, aware that he is looking at her—she preferred to wear a suit when she taught, she says, given that her students were only a decade younger than she was. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A woman was crumpled next to her, holding a child, a little boy younger than Baby. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As we got closer to Montauk, she seemed to grow younger, years of worry and work disappearing from her face. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, I’d had this idea that I wanted to keep a journal. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

That was altogether too much from a lad younger than herself, and Meg walked away, saying petulantly, “You are the rudest boy I ever saw.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he had been younger, Harry had dreamed and dreamed of some unknown relation coming to take him away, but it had never happened; the Dursleys were his only family. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It gave him an odd, empty feeling to remember those times; it was like remembering a younger brother whom he had lost. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“They look a stringy lot, and my teeth are not as sharp as when I was younger.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Nico was several years younger, half a foot shorter and fifty pounds lighter. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Johnson’s obvious vulnerability encouraged Senator Robert Kennedy, President John Kennedy’s younger brother, to jump into the race. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Her sister was just as problematic as Luke was, and I was not only younger than Daphne, but I had better grades. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But the bicycle incentive was great, and there was always the fear that a younger brother or sister would skip and land in your class. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The younger boy licked his lips in a most animal-like fashion, while the elder boy merely stared at Penelope. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He can eat, at least: when he was younger, he had a feeding tube. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“The population will start getting younger again. Get ready.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He was Lord Hoster's brother, younger by five years, but the two of them had been at war as far back as Catelyn could remember. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Once the hogs disappeared, Georgina and some of the younger women took the children to the barn for games and sing-alongs. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Gary Daniels, down the road there, who used to always pick on the younger kids after school. He was big for a child. Hell, he was big for a grown-up!” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He put Cleopatra’s younger siblings, Arsinoe and Ptolemy XIV, in charge of it so that everyone would be happy. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s just as important as your team or your friends. You are an example for the younger kids.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

So on her own accord, she called Ahmad one day and asked him to take his younger brother with him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I asked Morrie why he hadn’t moved somewhere else when he was younger. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Victor was the younger son and brother— with a temper which invited violence and a will which no ax could break. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cyril Ramaphosa was elected secretary-general, evidence that the torch was being passed from an older generation of leadership to a younger one. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to confide in one of the younger women. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore and Ludo Bagman stood beaming at Harry and Ron from the bank as they swam nearer, but Percy, who looked very white and somehow much younger than usual, came splashing out to meet them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, he loomed large and scary, like a character in a horror story. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Of course there’d be eleven years between us, but my father had a sister, my Aunt Margaret, who was twenty years younger than he was. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were younger, coarser men who enforced every niggling regulation, whose job was to harass and demoralize us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

How he’d been so patient with his younger brother, who wasn’t quite right. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Your eyes are younger than mine, young man,” she said. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He was wearing striped pajama bottoms that made him appear much younger, as did his dazed expression. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

There ain't enough horses to go around, and a few of the younger men have to run with the colored folks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I was conscious of my unruly hair that would not be trapped in a neat braid and my enormous eyes, which my younger brother called owl eyes. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the younger two and their constant arguments, she found a-way to be patient. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I wondered if she knew I was younger, and if she did, how come she didn't care? When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The younger ones went to school, and that was my dream too: to go to school and learn to read. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is forty-eight, older than Claire, but she looks about ten years younger. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

My other aunts and uncles were already there, having gone away with the younger cousins back in June. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

It was shameful to have a younger brother who was faster, stronger, smarter, and better. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the dorm was younger than Tally now, and she’d already taught all of her best tricks to the next class. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A bunch of the younger men were up on top of the church-schoolhouse patching the roof with palm leaves. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He let the younger man settle him behind his books and papers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She was not much younger than the Conte and she wore her hair in a tight bun. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, I would wrap my doll in the lace from my first Communion and I’d show her off to all my neighbors. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some younger girls had joined them and the line was twisting and turning to the rhythm of the song. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this instant the younger of Wang Lung’s two sons came creeping to the doorway upon his hands and knees. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

After that beating, students who were younger and smaller than Shin began to insult his mother. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’s just paying attention, or maybe he remembers she was this way even when I was younger. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I was surprised he’d said anything, since Byron thought it was cool not to answer stuff when someone younger than you said it. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not at all certain, then, how he would fare against the younger breed of highly professionalized butlers looking for posts. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The younger children couldn’t understand why they had to leave their parents. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any of you younger siblings who are hoping to forge a better connection with your older brother or sister, here's all that's required of you: don't sell them out to Mom and Dad. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I meet my mom’s eyes as Julie puts the O₂ mask back over my mouth, watching as my mom reaches out to gently stroke my hair like she did when I was younger. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Here is my hope for the younger pilots,” Bull continued, eyeing the lieutenants and captains. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them spots us and approaches, a younger official following close be hind him. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Another woman, a younger version of the Matron, stepped out from behind the stall carrying a tray of raw chicken to add to the roaster. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Some days the younger men would talk and talk about sex, and they would howl at women who drove by in cars. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brian was almost six by then, a year younger than me, and wasn’t afraid of anything. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

What was the point of having a younger sister if you couldn’t make her do your dirty work, after all? Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I have a younger brother,” he told her. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

This was an interview she was preparing for, the post of beloved younger sister. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was younger than the one who led them, she noticed. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Last week I saw him chew out Mamá’s younger coworker for texting instead of finding something “useful” to do on her break, like tidying up the break room. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

My younger brothers and sister complained about the noise because they could not sleep, so I placed a towel underneath it to keep the clatter down. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“My sister and my dad don’t like people going into them and knowing who they are,” said Inam al-Mufleh, Luma’s younger sister by eleven years, now a researcher for the Jordanian army in Amman. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

There, standing in her Sunday best, was Aunt Rose—only she looked much younger. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

We sat like that for hours, listening to the gunshots and the screams in the street, my younger cousins huddled next to their mothers, weeping on and off quietly. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Often, the younger guys, the more recent arrivals, were more talkative. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked younger than the other guests, always wore a pair of shorts, and had bushy hair with a parting at the side that stood higher than Master’s. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Older children cheat more than younger children, and those from stable and happy homes cheat a bit less than those from unstable and unhappy homes. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four younger hobbits were, however, in high spirits, and the party soon became very cheerful in spite of Gandalf’s absence. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The younger, fatter cook gave him a shrug that time. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“How do you feel?” the younger man says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

One Monday, I show up at a rehearsal after a holiday break and ask one of the younger kids in Volpe’s program how her weekend was. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I always thought she and Pa were around the same age but now she looked younger than my father. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Moss is much younger and arguably a very cute toddler.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She is younger than I am, tall, slim, dark-haired, pretty in a sharp-featured, vulpine sort of way. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am younger and stronger, Professor. It must be me.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

In the army, they didn't even accept volunteers younger than that. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even the smallest children—Lily’s age and younger—knew that it lay in the future for each of them. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, Nate was too young—Papa wouldn’t hire cabin boys who were younger than fourteen. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody knew exactly what it was that Tallow, in her younger days, had done to drive them off. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I had heard the story in my grandmother’s village when I was younger. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“You saw that big apartment complex we passed? Those are the projects we lived in when I was younger.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It is also unclear whether the younger Cleopatra went into exile with her father. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Several of the younger warriors moved up behind Crazy Horse. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Sure,” I said, because I was sick of potential parents who chatted for a few seconds, then went in search of cuter, younger specimens. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“She wasn’t always like that. When we were younger, back before she cared about being a ‘Van Helsing,’ she used to be really nice.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“You go, Lily,” he said, seeing his sister, who was much younger—only a Seven—wiggling with impatience in her chair. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

They nodded to me and turned back to Mr. Sloan, who was sitting at the kitchen table looking younger and happier after a night’s sleep. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

But the sight makes him feel strange, lightheaded, weightless, and somehow younger. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Accented by bright gold earrings, her black dress and two-tone fingernails made her look much younger than she was. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My parents divorced when I was younger, and my father disappeared. I haven’t heard from him in years.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“When I was younger, I was a runner,” she says. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

At his feet were a group of twenty children, some few my age, most younger. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her mother and younger sister will help provide Jasmin, now one and a half years old, with better care. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She had come to New York to visit when he was much younger, but he didn’t remember too much about her except for the fact that she looked like Dad. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When I be younger, I pick the tomato, the cucumber, the bean, the cotton. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached for him again, as if she might ruffle his hair the way she had when he was younger, before stopping herself. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Brave Orchid momentarily saw, like a larger, younger outline around this old woman, the sister she had been waiting for. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You kissed me when we were younger. You kissed me beneath the pledge-Oak, on your fifteenth birthday. And you kissed me last May Day, behind your father's cowshed." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“So how’d you know what you were passing, then,” his younger daughter would ask. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bow,” he said, and smiled, because when he was younger he had been under the impression that you had to say “Bow” when you bowed. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One pattern had a little girl younger than me sitting in the lap of an older girl, probably meant to be her sister. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“It is from my younger brother. He lives in Delhi, and he will take me in. He says he needs someone to look after his children and help with the housework.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, those barrettes manage to make you look older, not younger. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He has been looking younger, more handsome, something. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told the younger boys that they were trying to show off. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

A younger Dr. Atchley, an only child, with working parents, had to entertain himself. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

People in the contracting phase would live their lives backward: they would die before they were born and get younger as the universe contracted. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took it upon himself to correct the behavior of the younger children and pick them up from school. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Two of the younger ones are in carriages. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She died giving birth to what would have been my younger brother. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Widowed twice, he was rumored to be involved with a much younger woman. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I’ve heard that the younger they are the better it is.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, Mom and I used to make Easter egg animals. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Other than his mother, who sat in her shack with six. younger sons working roots, he had never met an interesting woman in his life. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there a middle-aged or older woman wore a heavy, colorless kimono, and a couple of somewhat younger women wore colored ones. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When you were younger it seemed big, but when you go back you realize how small it is. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Some King Lords sit in a gray Escalade across the street, and a younger one’s on the park merry-go-round. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The younger white man with the red derby wore a necklace adorned with pieces of shriveled leather. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I like her speaking voice; it’s younger than I thought it would be, but then the song is pulsing, her pain right under every word like always, and something else, something stronger. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Johnny was about my age, Aden was older than me, and Jimmy was younger. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the younger children are already playing with water balloons. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The fire flared up and lit their faces from underneath and I saw that they were all younger than I thought they were. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He became the boy’s teacher and invited him on Saturdays to his home, where he’d match him up with his son Tommy, just a shade younger than Bobby though a slightly better player. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sigmund Freud, who will make advances in its study and treatment, is three years younger than Vincent. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She had enough of working on a farm when she was younger. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Teachers don’t know that he makes it a point to pick on the younger kids walking home. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

His hair was longer than usual, and the sides had grown in so that he seemed younger, less severe. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The face was younger; the short beard, darker; but it was he, all right. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I have three brothers. All younger. I was changing diapers when I was still in diapers. Should we walk?" Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Most of the delegates were freed slaves, though the younger ones may have been born free. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The sound of it made me feel suddenly younger, a child. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Even the younger birds sat all day in dismal silence, and Mr. Popper could not cheer them up. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Down the street, Petra was left home with the younger kids, who were all asleep. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

As a boy, I’ve had brothers—both older and younger—wrestle me, hit me, kick me, bite me, shove me, and call me more names than I could ever catalog. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

After a while, he suggested that the younger children go to bed, while he and Cousin Eunice and Dicey made some plans. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hated the younger sister, the quiet one. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps it was her own much younger self, that pint-sized person whom she could never be again, whom she missed. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

It is something to do with the younger generation contradicting the efforts of their elders, the perennial parent-child dynamic of human civilisation: ‘whatever they did, we will do the opposite.’ The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But Maya, the younger and shorter one, didn’t seem to regret any of the words that came out of her mouth. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Even when he was younger, he asked himself, “Isn't it dumb to want only to be next to people who are just like you?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at her younger sister whose very wrinkles were fine. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The younger boy became very scared of being left in the cage, but the elder one comforted him. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The younger you were, the fewer clothes you had on. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The younger boys ran vigorously while they were in Luma’s field of vision. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

When I was younger I pretended this teapot tomb was a genie’s lamp. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The third woman grabbed Anya in a hug and kissed her a few times before releasing her, and the two younger girls slid up beside Anya while the older women talked around them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

They turn their heads, looking at the younger priest in annoyance. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If this was Red China they would. The Red Chinese Communist Party don’t play. Kids younger than that Little Girl turn their mother and father over to the Reds for treason and reeducation.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old goblin behind the counter clapped his hands and a younger goblin approached. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Victor looked once more at the photograph of the two very different faces—the tall, serious boy and the carefree smile of the younger one. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The other man in the room that night was Bernard Zuckerman, only twenty-two days younger than Bobby, a fellow Brooklynite, and an international master. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My younger brother, Ji-yong, jumped up from the table and saluted me. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We used to hunt them in the fields around Chisamba Singles when I was younger. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Because of my weight and my big mass of curly hair that the kids made fun of, and because I was younger than the others, I was an easy target for Addison. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Experiments show that the younger the animal is when it is subjected to a cancer-producing agent the more certain is the production of cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Chess didn’t want to say that in front of the younger kids. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been trying to figure it out for years. Maybe I did something to you when we were younger and I don’t remember.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the fastest broom in the world, isn’t it, Dad?” squeaked a boy younger than Harry, who was swinging off his father’s arm. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then one of the younger folk called for a song. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

His black hair, over which he couldn’t trouble as much anymore, grew long and lanky, so that it often covered his eyes, making him look younger. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Many years ago she had taken him to conceal the shame of her younger sister. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

My younger years and boy problems pale in comparison to what she dealt with. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“If you paid more attention to yours, you wouldn’t have to blackmail younger kids for pocket money.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Others would begin at B-block, get turned off by the greater chaos factor—the younger, more transient inmates or the higher incidence of gang violence—and head back to A-block. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was younger he was always the kid who thought there were monsters in the closet. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Among the rowdiest people of all were gangs of boys, teenaged and younger, who at last had their chance to defy authority. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

During the decade following Redemption, the convict population grew ten times faster than the general population: “Prisoners became younger and blacker, and the length of their sentences soared.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It seemed to me that Tyler knew exactly what he was doing, that he had done this before, when they were younger and less evenly matched. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Obedient to the nod from his superior, the younger inspector crossed the room and presented the letter to her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was 1919, and she was one year younger than the century. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Ma and Pa and Vincent’s younger sisters and brothers are moving. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She said something to the younger woman, and she reached up and felt my hair. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bending, she touched Baba’s feet and then her own forehead in a pranam—the gesture of honor younger people gave elders on special occasions. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was told to measure pills with the younger children, and his quota was twice theirs, “to teach him the value of labor.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went to move her hand away but Lola tightened her grip and seemed to read the younger girl’s mind. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He likes to remain that way to keep himself from being too tempted by a younger man’s passions.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s different for you children. You’re younger, the world is changing.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But even the younger boys who didn’t have relatives wanted to earn the older boys’ respect. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

They were the ones the younger kids—the later arrivals to Thurmond—claimed were trying to take down the camp system. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was hard to tell, but she looked about my age, maybe a little younger. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He wondered if he should feel a stab of jealousy—Dimple bonding so well with his muscled, much cooler younger brother—but all he felt was this warm, almost gooey feeling in his chest. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Salted kitten and shrew’s liver!” another said, to which the younger children responded with gagging sounds. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

On another occasion the younger monk presented us with four ripe watermelons from his garden. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joffrey feigned a yawn and turned to his younger brother. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But it doesn't feel great when your younger sibling surpasses you. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

When he was younger, Farmer had traveled to and from Cange in jeans and a T-shirt, until he realized this upset his Haitian friends, who always dressed up to travel. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He also told him that children were healthier if they were born to younger parents and Charles wasn’t getting any younger; he was nearing thirty. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As their eldest, I have pledged time and again to care for their daughters, my younger sisters, in their memory, in their honor, and with their celestial guidance. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near him stood his friend Ramon, with his parents and younger sister. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Some old hustlers did love to hype younger ones. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Grandma,” I was still trying to feel my way, “you were a lot younger than the Captain.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After my younger brother was hurt”—he pauses—“I took first aid at the Y.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Anyway, he did his elephant, which was exactly the sort of picture a kid three years younger might have done. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

My intention was to give younger people a context for the hate surfacing in the news and in political discourse and to give them a reason to hope. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She had seen boys and girls younger than this beaten and had done nothing. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Anya suspected she was looking at a pair of them, and that the younger one was the idiot she had spoken of. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Many of the younger lieutenants and several of the captains had never attended a Mess Night; they had only heard. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one closer to her was the younger of the two men. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The younger children remembered not to ask anything except, looking in the empty box, one said, “Nothin’ in here?” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I liked how you sounded on the phone. I am sure with you on board our circulation will soon surpass Glass. You know we are a much younger publication but already catching up to them!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He’s as tall as Bo, but his round cheeks tell me he’s at least a year younger. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Even the teachers are different: younger, more casual. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If silence and gloom is what you want,” put in one of the younger boys, “you could always try the Tower.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

By Elizabeth’s instructions, she began to comprehend that a woman may take liberties with her husband which a brother will not always allow in a sister more than ten years younger than himself. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

When he was younger, he had admired people with moneyed childhoods and foreign accents, but he had come to sense an unvoiced yearning in them, a sad search for something they could never find. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But the worst of my humiliations was my younger brother Reginald’s attitude: he simply never mentioned the fight. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was glad when Shay and David took her outside to the cooking fire, where a group of younger uglies hung out. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The driver was a woman, younger than Mom. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

He shooed the younger kids back to the sliding glass doors. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

If Epsilon-5 has been here that long, he was younger than me when they took him out of stasis. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Richard is younger than I am by a year, and a bit shorter and broader, with dark, serious eyes. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He said, “Listen, you’re fast, you can run. Run and tell the people at the other camps to come and help. We only have three real warriors here; the rest of you are younger.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just possible I’d somehow picked up the idea when I was younger without fully registering it, and that’s why I heard what I did when I listened to that song. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Jeep and two Japanese cars say some of the younger generation are also here. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“The younger sister married. Stole her sister’s beau, I’ve no doubt.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I have almost all the MidMerican scythes—but you were younger in the picture.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I would have enjoyed it, if I were a younger man. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were older women, younger women, men Walter's age, and several men much older. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He knew that Ebright was looking beyond this year to ’36, looking for younger talent, just as he was. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“And Reggie isn’t a boy. He’s only a year younger than you.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Little Hawk, Crazy Horse’s younger brother, was the only teenager in the group. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Behind me my brother-—a year younger than I—was playing placidly upon the floor with a toy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The obvious difference is the level of formality: irrealis I wish I were younger is fancier than past-tense I wish I was younger. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They ordered everyone to line up: men, women, even children younger than I. They walked up and down the line trying to make eye contact with people. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Her younger brother, Rana, studies for a physics exam on the bed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had played there many times with Henrik and other boys when we were a few years younger, imagining we were defending Willemstad against pirates or even the British. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I don’t expect is how much Mustafa sounds like a younger version of our uncle. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I should get a little present for each of them, as I always did when they were younger and I went away. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he looked back up again, there was a softness in his eyes that made him seem younger, like a curious boy who’d discovered something new and intriguing. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Extra butter for the youngsters, the problems facing today’s youth—you name it, and Mother defends the younger generation. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Whatever you wanted, he’d get it for you—brand-new toys, as many as you could think up in your poverty, all the toys you never had when you were younger. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So,” she said, “yours is a younger world.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The village school for younger children was a bleak brick building called Crunchem Hall Primary School. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

They're both my friends, but Noodles, the younger brother, is my ace. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

It was when I was a kid, chasing my younger brother, Tommy The one in the city with better prospects and better taste in coffee tables than me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The longer you watched that man doing things, the younger he looked. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s studying art, something she missed out on when she was younger. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

She was seventy-four years old, but in Nye’s opinion, “looked younger— maybe ten minutes younger.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Melon Head was a laundryman in Oakland—he had gotten that name because he had gone Completely bald in his younger days. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

At eleven years old, Denise was a few years younger than I was, but I thought she was pretty and smart, and I always liked the way her mom fixed her hair. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Levy was a bit younger than Wes but had managed to get out of the hustling game a few months back. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But the younger lad grew adept and indeed more adept at petty thieving than at begging. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Her husband, Nelson Davis, was more than twenty years younger than she. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was younger I thought that I was immortal. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I’m sure some of the younger fencers didn’t understand my tenacity or competitive nature during practice, but fencing was my only way to seek revenge on an enemy with no name. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“I have one older sister and a younger brother. But they don’t see things like I do.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“These are wise men, father,” said a younger man, “seafarers, voyagers. Maybe they know of a land we do not know of.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The difference it made was startling, as though a person ten years younger were shining through the starved mask; for a moment, he was recognizable as the man who had laughed at Harry’s parents’ wedding. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Mom and younger son get ready to skip town. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a clearing, two hundred feet from the shed, were three people—a man, a woman, and another, younger woman. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He was younger than me, but on that farm everyone was my boss. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But these men are your brothers—your lost, younger brothers. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Petra sighed heavily and got up to help her younger sister. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

My dad would bellow his younger sister's name over and over again. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The enmity between them was the younger, and smarter, boy’s fault. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If God really aims to punish you, you’ll know it when He sends you not one but two sisters who are younger than you but already have memorized the entire dictionary. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Natalie raised an eyebrow at Chess, like he was supposed to understand something the younger kids wouldn’t. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Looking back at his younger self, Hall would later call himself a “rather arrogant” teenager. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dimly remembered seeing an elderly woman’s body during a wake when I was younger. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every mouthful she ate was displayed to her admiring younger cousins, half-chewed, mulched, lying on her tongue like fresh vomit. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was younger than Candice’s mother, with dark skin and a short, stylish bob, and she wore a pair of stretchy jeans and a Carolina Panthers jersey. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Inside the cabin the younger children sat huddled together near the stove. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His equally absolute defeat of the younger, highly respected Larsen proved that Fischer was in a class by himself. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The younger woman was old enough to be his mother, and the older was likely her mother. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A much younger creature, also a boy, came running out of the house immediately ahead of the others. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Traditionally, the members of the senior class invited their younger brothers and sisters to the Commencement Dance, held the night before the Junior- Senior Banquet, which was always the last Friday in May. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

When we were little, I didn’t mind sharing a room with my three younger sisters. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But when I was younger, I used to wake up at night in April dreaming of Halloween. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Uncle Henry was a head taller than Papa, but he was five or six years younger. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And looked at his younger brother, through the mirror. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She grabbed at the younger woman by her braid, cursing in her language and dragging her back to their room. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, most of the younger psychologists were staying at the Independence, and that was where the big first-night parties were. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Women emerged from cottages to stare at us guardedly, keeping their younger children behind their skirts. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man with a big red nose is telling the jokes and two younger men are laughing at them. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

With every word, she put more and more pressure on the Assassin’s wrist, until the joint began to buckle and tears welled in the younger woman’s eyes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Alicia takes the arm of the younger man, and I turn and walk away fast. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maureen was five years younger than Brian, and Mom said that since she didn’t have any allies in the family around her age, she needed special treatment. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Or my even sadder crush on Jessie’s very slightly younger brother. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

These were smaller heads, and the faces were younger. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He touched the husk of his younger face and thought about his beloved Blanchepon. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Thomas might be several years younger than Metias and a subordinate on his patrol, but he’s more disciplined than anyone I know. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

"Eight isn't so much younger than fifteen, and I'm the heir to Winterfell, after you." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But almost always, the older brothers and sisters had secretly taught the younger ones. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nana had become an ageless woman still in full possession of all the strength of her younger years. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, my brother and I divvied up the world when we were younger,” I tell him. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Katie’s younger brother, Ben, hung around us all night, but he wasn’t even that annoying. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Papá, Mamá, and my younger brothers and sister used it, but Roberto and I did not. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She chose Jamie, the second youngest of her three younger brothers. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought Love Simpson would marry Son Black. I know his mother don’t approve, but he’s not gettin’ any younger, and they been courtin’ a year or more.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I’m not embarrassed to admit I think Shoji is a lot cooler than I am, even if he is younger than me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

After all, wasn't that a younger sibling's primary reason for living? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

They had contests to see who could catch the most fish in ten minutes, and the younger lawyer won with an average of 2.1 fish a minute. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abel’s mother and his sisters were all traditional, stay-at-home moms, and Abel and his younger brother, who was a policeman, supported the family. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The younger boy’s ears tilted slightly, making him look a little elfin, just like Finn. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was tall, and seemed to be one of the younger Ents; he had smooth shining skin on his arms and legs; his lips were ruddy, and his hair was grey-green. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The oldest were making for the storerooms where the clothing was kept, and herding the younger ones with them. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He was the only boy, and far younger than my sister and me. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

For example, Hawaiian history was repeatedly punctuated by revolts against repressive chiefs, usually led by younger brothers promising less oppression. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the oldest students participating, the fourth graders put on a play of the book for the younger grades as well as for the parent- teacher association. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The younger of the two was already at the top of the zoos border wall. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A new youth, a boy younger than me by a year or two, enlisted this day. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The younger fox gazed at the older one for a moment, then turned and trotted into the grass. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was twenty years younger than Calvin, but found himself unable to keep up the pace. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks at the boy sitting on one of the bottom bunks—he is a fewyears younger than we are, and he’s trying to undo a knot in his shoelaces. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

But, forgive me, son, I knew what she meant and when you were younger I thought the same. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I think I recall that,” he says, as if not entirely willing to be reminded of his former, younger self. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Didn’t this look as though Malfoy had more important things on his mind than bullying younger students? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

A younger girl with puffy red curls similar to Khaled’s ran up to them. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But both crews had been rowing for hours, and as he trailed them in his launch Ulbrickson waited for the younger, less experienced boys to fade. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The younger brother fell behind, then followed at a distance. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

His last match of the day was against the younger Royce. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Beside it is a much younger face, white petals jutting out of her bright yellow scalp like a daisy. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

By contrast, the younger man, said the judge, was “lean, Cassius-like, and copper-colored, he seldom smiled....All he asked of life was an open field and a fair chance. He was strictly business.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The boys he had led and lorded over were all ahead of him now, because of the months he had lost, and that spring and summer he studied with lads younger than himself. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

When I was younger and these brothers started coming along, I had a little talk with God. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I leave such ventures to you younger men with the fever of life still in your blood.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

The younger, no more than fifteen, had an even longer braid, dyed a garish green. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At twenty-five, Karen was eighteen years younger than Walter, and she was married. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Other riders Sansa did not know; hedge knights from the Fingers and Highgarden and the mountains of Dome, unsung freeriders and new-made squires, the younger sons of high lords and the heirs of lesser houses. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The younger one held out a blanket wrapped around something. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was tall and weak like Billy, might have been a younger brother of his. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed younger than Mary herself, though Lyra had said she was hundreds of years old; the only hint of age came in her expression, which was full of a complicated sadness. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Confronting his younger brother—less vicious but powerful in his own way—was more than he’d bargained for. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I was in charge of the younger kids, having been told to stay in the yard and out of the house until Doña Ana, our next-door neighbor, came to get us. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I wonder how the younger sister happened to overlook it.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

As the oldest, Shamsoun did his best to support his younger brothers. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The Paces ran the Perfect Angels day-care center in Plant City, where the younger children went while the older ones attended school. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The younger girls have their first evaluations coming up at the end of the month. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I told Esther about the shapes I used to see in the moon when I was much younger. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

His half-brother Charles, only a little over a year younger, grew up with his father’s assertiveness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The girl was younger, maybe thirteen, with amber eyes and chocolate skin and long curly hair. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then, one day at the very end of February, Mrs. Frisby’s younger son, Timothy, fell sick. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Being Caroline’s younger brother is both a blessing and a curse that way. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Hank was down at his mother’s and unavailable, and Jem had to make do with his younger sister for company. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

When he was younger, he thought his father might see the havoc of his body and ease up. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When she and her sister, Lauren, were younger, it was done behind closed doors, muffled voices and tight smiles the next morning at breakfast. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I remember best going with the younger daughter, Helga, to visit the neighboring farms, eating thick, dark bread in farmhouse kitchens, and learning to wear clogs. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Being a horse-minded boy, he noticed that there was a little trouble with a showy white horse built like Sandy, but much younger. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to him stood a younger girl, about my age, with a sharp jaw and straight brown hair. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Everybody knew that with each passing year the old goat liked them younger and younger. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madame coquetted with him in the most captivating and naive manner, with eyes, gestures, and a profusion of compliments, till the Colonel’s old head felt thirty years younger on his padded shoulders. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Morrie is older than most of the teachers, and I am younger than most of the students, having left high school a year early. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What can I get for you, bud?” the younger man asked. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He had been upstaged by the younger man. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took it in the way a younger brother takes the hand of his older sister when he wants things to be okay. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

For Robb himself, Theon did have a certain affection, as for a younger brother . . . but it would be best not to mention that. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

L. P., Paul Freeman and his brother Jake, Mrs. Scott’s twins—and Ajax had a whole flock of younger brothers. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Blossom is almost eighteen, I think. You can’t be very much younger.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

There is a younger sister they call La Cadette—think it means “the little sister.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Yet Princesse was also very responsible: She often helped Mom take care of us younger kids, getting us bathed and into bed at night. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Ruby was in her late eighties too, with a sharp mind that seemed decades younger than her frail body. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Larry, a younger brother, also refused to obey the summoning bell. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a few years when we were children, I was the taller one, even though I was almost a year younger. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The soldier in command gave an order, and the guard who’d been holding Julie down took aim at the younger of the captive men and with one bullet maimed him low between his legs. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Half the women were younger than she, half were older; they had shared no experience that she could recall, except one female with whom she had quarreled steadily all through grammar school. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A smaller group of younger chimps goes out into a small forest patch near the sanctuary with one of the Congolese keepers. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nancy fondled a hand of the younger one. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she had been younger and had more juice, the glitter in her eyes would have washed down onto her cheeks. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The perhaps surprising answer is 2A, since there are three equally likely possibilities— older boy, younger girl; older girl, younger boy; older girl, younger girl—and in two of them the family has a son. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jake tried to quiet him, but Cob brushed the younger man aside. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

For one thing, with his hair and beard trimmed and now neatly dressed, he looked a lot younger, though still much older than I. I would guess maybe thirty or thirty-two. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It’s empty except for a huge, ugly old chest that Quinton got from the thrift store when we were younger. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Dalton and his younger sister are regular flyers, visiting their dad, who lives up in Portland, a few times a year—Christmas, Easter, most of the summer, and every other Thanksgiving. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Medieval princes went to war when they were fourteen or even younger. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are the young ones older and the old ones younger?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The strain of keeping up with younger men was taking its toll. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When I was younger I even invented one but— SCORPIUS: I had one of those too. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

My mom and my older sister were all for it; my younger brothers were ready to live like surfer boys. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Mary simply sat on her bed, peeking through the blinds at the father of her younger child. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The younger one wears a half smile and a dirty T-shirt and jeans. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks younger with his close-cropped hair and his stubble-free face, but the outline of his biceps foreshadows the next few years. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But oh, what wouldn’t I give to be twelve years younger so I could b’lieve him! Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

In her mind’s eye little Oliver Twist looked exactly like a younger Charlie. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him, a younger male showed his fangs as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I came to tell you that the Germans are taking a thousand of us away. The younger men. To work in a labor camp.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He was a close friend of my father’s, and I sometimes played with the oldest Unsoeld children—Regon, who was a year older than me, and Devi, a year younger. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She has big plans for the younger ones: graduations, proms, college, professions. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“They’re getting younger all the time, aren’t they? This here’s Bud and he’s going to be our guest for a while, so I want to impress him with something special.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Two girls with jump ropes, a boy doing a handstand, a man with long arms and legs spinning a basketball on his finger, a woman standing next to a younger girl stirring a pot. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Kaprice had a toy basketball hoop on her door to give her students’ younger siblings something to do when their parents came in for meetings. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And he wasn’t that much taller than the Count either, although his stomach was flatter, but that was because the farm boy was younger. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had hoped it would nod its head or stamp a hoof, like a trained horse he had once seen on the village green when he was younger. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Big Jerome hollered and tumbled headfirst into the pool, taking at leastthree younger kids with him. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The next two girls were pretty, even younger than me. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out humiliating things that can neither be anticipated nor controlled. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She looked younger and smaller than the others, with bright-red feathers. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was because Wes was younger than Tony and Mary knew well how violent Tony could be. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

At the time, I was in better shape than she was even with my accident and though she was much younger. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Richard was always there before her, looking, oddly, much younger and less anonymous without the ugly, tight-fitting, black uniform that he had to wear when working. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“The school board came up with the idea of using the high school teachers as substitutes at the schools for the younger students,” explained Mother. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Hrothgar had done, this younger king was systematically burning and plundering nearby halls, extending the circle of his tribute power. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I seek my mother, but I find younger game,” said Hamlet. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I want to hear about the dry lands over the Stormwal,” one of the younger girls complained. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nearly four years younger than his brother, Ernest, at the age of thirty-one he looked rather the elder: his hairline receding, his face already bearing the dour expression of a country doctor. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But my parents became citizens when I was much younger, so I don’t remember it. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the daughter, Blanca, who looks a few years younger than me, plays there with her little brother. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The younger one also lacked her mother’s abundant hair; instead she had thin curls stuck tight to her scalp as though glued there. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

My younger brother, Garrett, who’s been sitting on the couch waiting for normal TV to return, makes the appropriate face, which just makes Uncle Basil laugh. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They are generally younger, white, male, mostly talking and laughing and pointing to the house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Salva’s younger brother, Kuol, was taking care of just one cow; like his brothers before him, he would be in charge of more cows every year. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lily is Jackson’s younger sister, sweet as sugar and as pretty as a summer day. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When he was younger and the anxiety got this bad, when the stakes in his life were much, much lower, this would be the point of self-destruction. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Many of the widows were old, but many were young, some even younger than I was. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her brother was several years younger and bore no weapons. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Baruch seemed younger, as Balthamos had said he was, and was more powerfully built, his wings snow-white and massive. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, we spent many a walking hour singing, making up rhymes, playing kick the can. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Actually she looks younger than she is, which is almost fifteen. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the people I saw looked like me—-about my age, some younger and some older. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I checked out the Hudsons, who were younger and more like what I had in mind. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Billy, the younger Fitzgibbon son, had been sitting on the kitchen stool, his feet up on the rung, eating berries from a colander. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The characters, then, of the younger and older generations are of this kind. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The old man was called Garikayi, and most of the others were his younger brothers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

My young mother, younger than I remember her, as young as she must have been once before I was born. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was being chewed out by a younger woman who I’d seen around the school a few times. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She was one of the younger Star Children. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“He has a younger sister,” Maa said, “so you will have help with the household tasks.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The younger of the two men hoisted the stretcher and began walking backward toward the main house. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He was older than Con but younger than Tali, and he spoke with a northern accent. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He stands it because it’s the way to feed his mother and two younger brothers and sister. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She looked like a younger version of Mom after a twelve-hour shift in the chicken factory, or Dad after a long day of baling hay. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

When she stood about ten feet away, I could see she was younger than I had thought. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Mom said the army had turned her younger brother Will from being a “nice kid” to being a “confused jerk.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I figured when Ma Charles didn’t have a name handy, she called any woman or girl younger than herself “daughter.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The younger ones admired the older boys who strutted about so tough, and they jostled with their playmates for a chance to run errands for the gangs of young men they looked up to. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Within Hildegard’s lifetime a group of younger composers working at Notre-Dame in Paris had become known for their radical approach to harmony. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

When they are away from their families — in different contexts — older siblings are no more likely to be domineering and younger siblings no more likely to be rebellious than anyone else. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was once a beautiful woman and is still quite attractive, looking far younger than her stated age. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

It filled my heart to know that my story provided hope, and it confirmed my belief that there weren’t enough people like me in the public view for younger generations to find inspiration in. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

One of the men was somewhat younger than the others and more elaborately decorated. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Mister...” she told the man, who was older than Uncle Darnell and younger than Pa. “Sir,” she started again. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He was a large, beefy man who looked like his younger son, if you blew JT up with a bicycle pump to twice his size. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anna and Dorus withdrew Vincent and Anna, choosing instead to hire a governess to educate them at home, along with the younger Van Goghs when they were ready. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Marsha held on despite these challenges and started advocating for some of the younger women. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I recognize him immediately as George Wu, Tori’s younger brother. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

When they reached the lawn, the younger ones broke out in tears. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It is no wonder my younger self chose to forget something so terrifying. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Maybe they have younger girls who can fit in it.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I told the younger boys what to do and helped care for them. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

These random gunshots sent the younger children diving between the legs of their parents. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A photo was taped to the wall just above the faucet of my mother and father when they were much younger, holding my hand on the boardwalk at Coney Island. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The three younger men looked happier at the moment as they seemed to realise the significance of her words; but Van Helsing and I, turning to each other, met each a grave and troubled glance. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

As always, even though I was younger than my brothers, she instructed me to keep an eye on them and run and get her in case of trouble. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was much younger than the others, with a thin, blond wisp of mustache. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I think about the immortal jellyfish, the one that can grow younger. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Amaranta, the younger, was somewhat graceless, but she had the natural distinction, the inner tightness of her dead grandmother. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

There was a black-and-white picture of a much younger Grandpa Sorenson showing off an enormous marlin. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They had two daughters, one my age and the other a couple years younger than my eight-year-old sisters. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Even when I was younger, she never used baby words or talked to me the way grown-ups usually talk to little kids. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The younger children were already in bed when the boy got home. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lives with a charming Christian lady who’s quite a bit younger than he is. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And the girl whose twin had died; she was younger than the yellow-haired one, just toddling, but she giggled and shrieked with the others, playing catch-me-while-I’m-running. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first he watched the younger boys with wary concentration, then he began to bait them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

If someone’s in the stall, it’s really funny to swing and kick his door in, especially if he’s a younger kid. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

I’m trying to give you some advice, from one old man to a much younger version of himself.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When she was younger, she wouldn’t have hesitated to plague Hayva with dread visions of her dead brother. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

If Polly had been a very little younger she would have wanted to put one in her mouth. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I can tell you one thing,” the doctor said, “if it was the younger sister sneaking around this house at night, she had nerves of iron. It watches,” he added suddenly. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, whenever I looked at dollar bills, I always had a strange sense that Washington was glaring at me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The younger team kept running: twenty-five minutes, thirty minutes, thirty-five...and so on. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s when grown-ups write letters to their younger selves and give advice and stuff,” I say. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

She's a little younger than him, skin slightly darker, long black hair woven in a tress. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I know Louvenia heard better than I did, cause her ears is ten years younger than mine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The principal had a blond natural grace that made him look younger than he actually was. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I imagine the woman who wrote them, I think of her as about my age, maybe a little younger. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I might be three years younger, but he's the one who is tucked away in a university. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She has a younger sister just like I do. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I explained how Mandy and I bathed the younger girls and ourselves in the same water and helped with the smaller boys. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The musical center of my family, though, was my grandfather Shields, the carpenter, who was also Robbie's younger brother. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When he stood up and extended his hand to Robert and Tayo, his motions were strong and unhesitating, as if they belonged to a younger man. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No normal girl is going to want some guy with Hulk arms,” the younger boy said. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

One of the younger kids ran forward, crying, and stroked Otto’s foot. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. We have a copy at home, somewhere. She even tried to get you to read it when you were younger, but you didn’t seem interested, and she didn’t want to force it.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

So it got to be divided down the lines of young against old, with Anatole persuading a lot of the younger men. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a year or two younger than me and at least four centimeters shorter. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Barristan the Old, did you say? Your bear knight was younger, and devoted to you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“For my younger brother’s sake,” Yitoo said, “I will show you the shortcut we water monsters use to travel between the worlds.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There were two of them, one big and burly, the other a younger fellow with a slight build. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Suddenly she spun around and darted out through the open door into the twilight to join her younger brothers and sisters. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

When she was younger, she’d supposed it had belonged to a maid, but at some point she came to understand that it had been for Isagol’s consorts, paramours, whatever you chose to call them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He looks younger, a boy still, about eighteen, with wide, friendly eyes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was younger than the others, approximately my own age. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The play was short, over before most of the younger students began to squirm in their seats. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

She drove on with bitter breathlessness, “And he’s barely thirty-five and looks and acts younger. Do you suppose he ever sees me as anything but...but what I am?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The thirty kids in the classroom—all juniors and seniors—were only a few years younger than me, and I was afraid they wouldn’t respect me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But something always fell through: the mother changed her mind; a father or a cousin or a grandmother showed up out of the blue; the agency decided another, often younger couple was a better fit. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Issues of building maintenance, and whether or not scythes should be required to announce the turning of a corner so it wasn’t so shocking when they looked thirty years younger at the next conclave. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

In Calcutta, Ashima will live with her younger brother, Rana, and his wife, and their two grown, as yet unmarried daughters, in a spacious flat in Salt Lake. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew a boy once ... oh, younger than you by far. A mere baby, really.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nonnie had sort of put her hand on the younger woman’s arm in a timid embrace, but there was a huge embroidered shoulder bag between the two of them. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The middle school office is located in a one- story building that looks like the younger brother of the high school building. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the carved hardwood doors to the king’s chambers stood Steelskin, a younger pit fighter, not yet regarded as of the first rank. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On the Seventeens’ side of the field, Peshawa had grown angry: he had no intention of getting shown up by the younger team. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“When I was just a boy, younger than you, it began to come to me. But it wasn’t the seeing-beyond for me. It was different. For me, it was hearing-beyond.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The shrinking sheik turned a bright crimson and actually cringed against the hatrack, while Ernestine picked up one of Dad’s walking sticks and started after the younger set, bent on premeditated, cold-blooded mayhem. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was right—all the kids, apart from a few like Netta and myself, were younger. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She’s holding hands with a younger boy and walking next to a middle-aged man and woman; I assume they’re her family. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He was so young then, and I was younger. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It happened around the time my younger brother Hunter was born. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when I was younger, I tried to lighten my skin with honey, rose water, and buffalo milk. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He flattered her, telling her that she was losing weight and looking younger. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

To be fair, sometimes I look younger than I am. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

My aunts argued too, and the younger children started to cry. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I am not sure if it is my favorite anymore, but when I was younger I would read it over and over.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps without realizing it I became secretly envious; for one thing, I know I could not help seeing some of my younger brother Reginald’s lifelong admiration for me getting siphoned olf to Philbert. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

At meals they chide younger children for admiring anything foreign: a British car advertisement, a French picture book. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Martha alone of the older children didn’t need to have her tonsils out, the doctor said, and the children younger than Lillian could wait awhile. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve been a ranger for a dozen years. You survived the Fist of the First Men and Craster’s Keep, and came back to tell the tale. The younger men look up to you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The younger ones would do the raking and weeding. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Mallons’ son, Jimmy, was just one year younger than Horan. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

And the galaxies are younger than the universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Archaeologists have demonstrated that the first farmers in many areas were smaller and less well nourished, suffered from more serious diseases, and died on the average at a younger age than the hunter-gatherers they replaced. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now, the ball will be open only to fourth years and above — although you may invite a younger student if you wish —” Lavender Brown let out a shrill giggle. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The younger one took forever deciding between apple juice and chocolate milk. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Night loneliness was always bad when the younger children had gone to bed, or when the father was not in the cabin. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder: Is it possible that there is more than one way to grow younger? The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, I scared my mother to death, the things I would blurt out about District 12, about the people who rule our country, Panem, from the far-off city called the Capitol. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“A lot has changed in the two years since you signed up to go to Central. You were younger then,” Mother said with a frown on her face. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the Fifteens began to wear down the younger boys and to find the seams in the Thirteens’ defense. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

When she was younger, she had asked Papa about that war, and he said he doubted it would be the last battle fought on American soil. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It was her, it was her!” the younger boy yelped. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

One big factor is that Bacon is a lot younger than most of them and as a result has made fewer movies. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, Beatrice overheard Mandela talking to his younger brother. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The younger children would bother him; they would ask a lot of questions like “Why is Sounder dead?” and “Will he stay dead?” and many more that he would not want to answer. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they woke the two younger children and told them the bad news. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

This I did not find remarkable, it often being the case due to the illness or absence of one of the younger servants that some small duties had to be performed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She played music my mother had listened to when she was younger and told her everything would be okay, even if America was not made of gold as people back home thought. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Now she could see that he was younger than she’d thought, perhaps only in his thirties, and thinner, too. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Our house is small, and I have six brothers and a sister, all younger than I. Things got a little crowded, as the mole explained when he crawled out of the anthill.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I curtsied and knocked into the younger girl. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

His younger brother J. C. “Doc” White was also a former Texas Ranger who had joined the bureau. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was like when his mother used to say go to bed so Santa could come and leave him gifts when he was younger. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Glancing at her younger sister, Nya did not say what she was thinking: that Akeer, who was only five years old, was too small and walked too slowly. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He is younger than she, you know,” began Mrs. March, but Jo broke in... Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was just a few days younger than I was, but she’d been named to the national team two years before. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He looked a bit younger than Miig and addressed him as older brother. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

As she turned to go, the younger woman added, “Because if you are, tell that boy to come around and listen to my orbs sometime.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

LeAlan: When did you first see younger offenders doing bigger crimes? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s one of the younger players—only eighteen, same as me—and is from Ireland. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I lived with boys who were mostly my age or somewhat younger. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chess slid from feeling a little younger than Natalie to feeling like he was practically a baby. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A year younger than Bobby, his notable accomplishment wasn’t in chess—he was a tournament player but not of championship caliber—but in law. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He’s joyful, he’s younger than I am now. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Besides getting himself ready, each older child was responsible for one of the younger ones. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was forty years old and a grandfather, we were told, but he looked much, much younger. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

To his friends, though, Bobby denied that there was a romantic relationship with Miyoko, who was two years younger than him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And slowly the wound began to grow numb I dreamed I was walking through the forest with plain-faced Laclith, the woodsman who had traveled with our troupe when I was younger. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The younger child, Monty, age six, noticed blood on the ceiling. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides the lifeguard watching from his perch, there’s a gaggle of girls my age patrolling the beach with younger siblings in tow. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Volpe and his younger sister, Rosemary, were exceedingly close as children, and still are. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The Countess was considerably younger than her husband. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

There are some younger members—Zoe is there, and she gives me a strained, but polite, smile when I walk in. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

In his younger days Amarante had often run a backhoe, but now he had trouble holding the clutch down long enough to push the shifting lever into gear. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He's just a few years younger than me, but he's a small boy right now. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

After the two younger boys had gone, Jethro took their place in the loft with Bill at night. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe on Grands Day, they can come as special guests for the younger grades. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

When she was younger, before she went to middle school and her arms seemed to grow longer in the night, she knew the easy latitude and longitude of her world. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

One was of a much younger and thinner Coach with a player in a Sacramento Kings uniform. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The lady I had left might be about twenty-nine; the one who went with me appeared some years younger: the first impressed me by her voice, look, and air. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She was a fixture — a younger, less disturbing version of herself—in the earliest Hunger Games I can remember. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But these men are your brothers—your lost, younger brothers. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

While we were alone for a minute, Maa said, “The boy is much younger than they told us, and he is sickly.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

After an hour and a half, the younger boys came outside and ran their laps while the Under Seventeens scrimmaged under Luma’s watchful eye. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Chest voice feels like the sound is emanating from the chest, which tends to create a lot of tension in the throat, particularly in younger singers. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“What about your younger brother, the one you said sometimes helps you at work, what’s his name?” he asked, looking out the window. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I mean it literally: There is at least one species of jellyfish that can grow younger, which is something that pretty much no other creature on Earth can do. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He was probably about forty, forty-five, but he was dressed younger, in a pair of loose jeans and a Red Wings sweater. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, I had made it a point to study the location of the maize and potatoes I had planted and had snuck back to the fields to see if they had grown. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Gaunt, intense, and excitable, with Rasputin’s piercing eyes and a beard that rivaled Darwin's, de Vries already looked like a younger version of his idol. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Within a few years, she was able to move to a larger house with her younger daughter, Dorothea. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was his mother—younger than he remembered her, but very much alive. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There was a new annex on the south side of the house, where younger women were filling bottles and packaging orders for shipment. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She is ten years younger than my mother but looks older, especially now as her face turns long and prudish. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Abdulrahman, being younger, would clean the cages when necessary, and Ahmad, being older and more experienced in these matters, would find new birds, feed those who lived there, and train them when the time came. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They were younger—perhaps in their early twenties. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The younger one was shy and awkward and seemed much more comfortable simply bringing her things: bags of ice, glasses of water, tea with honey. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Daito nudged his younger brother, and they both faced me and bowed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

One so much older than her, one younger. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The three girls were a little younger than me, and they seemed to adjust to me pretty quickly. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

From that time, the descendants of the younger brother were called the Tsunga, the Steadfast Ones, because he had honored the totem.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to see them, wanted them to be much younger. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

His grandparents on Oahu doted on both him and his younger half sister Maya. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She also has a mother and a younger sister who are willing to pose. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

So many seconds had passed—thirty? forty-five?—and the younger girl could no longer hold herself back. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It happened around the time my younger brother Hunter was born. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Benny and Brad, my younger cousins, zipped around tables, pretending to be superheroes until they were scolded by my uncle for knocking over a chair. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But he had no close friends, until some of his younger cousins began to grow up. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Why he never wanted to visit Welch when we were younger. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

From this room a new wing for one of the younger families would grow. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed the younger children back out of the cold and closed the door. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A ponytail makes her look simultaneously younger, like a schoolgirl in a uniform, and older, too, the severity of just a face framed by that swinging hair. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

A younger man stood beside him in a mangy cape made from a lion’s skin, his face framed by the big cat’s mouth. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The younger monk used a yellow cloth to wipe dirt from a belt of ammunition. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The younger man led the way out of town. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I joined Farmer on the Brigham’s radiology floor, in a quiet room where he was discussing various patients with younger doctors, mostly residents, who were his students. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She supposed that she and the younger workers, including Heather, would become friends, of a sort. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A few of the younger boys drifted off to play King of the Mountain on the slope between the upper and lower fields. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Before Ork has finished, the younger priest drops to his knees and throws his hands up, shaggy lips smiling, wild. fourth priest: Blessed! Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then my three younger brothers set up their own grizzling chorus about how unfair it was that they didn’t get paid for anything. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Today, in Iran's urban areas, the great majority of the younger generation tend to meet their significant others on their own. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

In the rooms where the kids looked younger, I moved along right away. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

When we were younger, maybe five or six, he used to sit cross-legged on the floor and play with us after his work was done. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then: “There was a kid, younger than you.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

All I wanted at that moment was to be in the arms of my mother, who was on another tire behind me with my younger sister. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I need physics more than friends,” Oppenheimer once told his younger brother. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katie had the same hardships as Johnny and she was nineteen, two years younger. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But, Miss Mortimer, I thought the gifts had to be handmade,” a much younger Penelope had asked, while experiencing a shiver of delight at how completely and thrillingly store-bought the book appeared to be. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

At this, the younger man’s face goes, if possible, even darker. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

To marshal large men who were not all that much younger than him, and in many cases just as strong willed, he needed every advantage he could get. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We talk for a while about art because she used to paint when she was younger. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We were two older sisters watching our younger sisters playing games and running around making fools of themselves. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked pretty much as April remembered him and his voice was still gravelly and grave, but he seemed younger, somehow, and more lively. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What if we send the two older ones back and keep the younger ones here,” he suggested. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She was with her Nana and another child, probably one of her younger sisters. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And, Mr. Hobert,” the principal says to Stephen, “it sounds like you’ve been harassing younger students at this school. You will serve detention and community service for one week. We do not tolerate hateful language.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“You are ten or fifteen years younger than I am. What could you see to attract you in a man like me?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She didn’t like hanging out with boys her own age, much less boys who were a year younger. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I have this sick feeling like I got when I ate ice cream and played in hot weather too long when I was younger. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Only I’m not sure if that was because he looked older or I looked younger. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I walk past snuffling, whimpering sounds and think of when I was younger, crouched in my bedroom, wiping my nose on one of my sleeves. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I see a girl maybe a little younger than me—the daughter. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, to make money, Morrie and his younger brother, David, would wash porch steps together for a nickel. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

What he needed was a younger, fresher mind to assist him. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was of a seated woman and, behind her, a thinner, younger Rasheed, with black hair. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I guess its because girls are smaller or look younger or something. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She was 90, though parts of her were considerably younger.... The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Right. We used to pretend to be ‘gangster’ when we were younger, too,” Malik adds. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Tony found his younger brother and asked for an explanation for the leaning tower of Nikes. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

A centaur was standing over him, not Ronan or Bane; this one looked younger; he had white-blond hair and a palomino body. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

We step around younger boys playing marbles on the sidewalk. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Chou, the younger cousins, and I sell what they make in the market. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To prove to her younger sister how uncivilized I was, she invited me to the rectory for lunch. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jacob wasn’t much younger than me, but he wasn’t nearly as strong nor as willing to work. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knocked gently on her younger sister’s bedroom door. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

They got a buddy program for some of the younger residents. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Off you go, off you go, the bell rang five minutes ago, off to class, now,” he said, shooing some of the younger students away. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

But no one dared to challenge Reb Saunders’ tacit transference of power to his younger son. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“What do you say when you open the door like that?” her children used to ask when they were younger. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then younger kids moved in to pick up spilled food. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He gave me a quick smile and patted my shoulder, like he might do to a younger boy, and pushed his way into the flow. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls were even younger than Desdemona, still living at home with their parents. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He lives with his mother and two younger sisters, including one born just ten months ago, from his mother’s current relationship. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The most important thing, Vincent tells his younger brother, is that they have to live. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I didn't notice it when I was younger, but then I did. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There’s a giraffe in the back­ground Near the edge of the group, I recognize a younger Mr. Adirubasamy. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Type of birth defect. When I was younger, about your age, I used to be angry. At my father in particular.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Just fine. Seems younger every day. The boys must be growing up.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He would pick fights with the younger kids in the neighborhood. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Uncle Antonio gently added, “Many have gone over there. Entire families have gone. Many have been younger than the two of you.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Certainly his memory was not as good as it had been when he was younger. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And she almost looks younger than my own mother! Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, he got sick, really sick. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She was thirty-three, two years younger than my father. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, he was younger than Ba — the gray of his hair was wiped away with the cloth as well — and his beard and head were as glossy black as Minli’s. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was just easier to have her younger than me. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until they get home tomorrow and find that their younger son was sold into child slavery in New York City. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Can I sell you a Jacobean four-poster bed? Or do the tax inspectors keep getting younger?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I tried this repeatedly and then noticed that the older sister was smiling at me and looking knowingly at the younger sister as if to say, “I told you so.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, sure, a rabbit toy,” said the younger man, and he turned away. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Generose was constantly shooing her younger children out of the kitchen, and allowed only Alex, the eldest, to cook on the stove. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

To Mollie’s distress, they even held Ernest, too, in case he was covering for his younger brother. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Dad had gone off in the car, so Mom grabbed me and my younger brother, Brian, and hurried over to the trailer next to ours. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When she was younger, Laila used to sit for hours outside this door. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I used to dance like that all night long when I was younger,” she declared. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He disliked Mordred irrationally, as a dog dislikes a cat—and he felt ashamed of the dislike, because it was a confused principle of his to help the younger Knights. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The younger boys were adolescents following fast in the path of their older siblings. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

My younger brothers adored running the machine and begged to take a turn, but you had to watch them—they were murder on the crank. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes younger women came and went in the commander’s quarters and emerged with sheepish smiles. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When Aru looked into the pool, she saw a memory of her mother—a much younger version—walking hand in hand with the Sleeper. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

As I said my thank-you to her, I remembered all those nights I had spent on Grandma India's lap when I was younger. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“And you know, younger black folk don’t really do code switching anymore. The middle-class kids can’t speak Ebonics and the inner-city kids speak only Ebonics and they don’t have the fluidity that my generation has.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Thomas reached out and squeezed the younger boy’s shoulder. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They joined a group of younger and elder brothers and sisters standing around the punch bowls. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But at some point following the shootout and car chase, the younger brother fled on foot, according to State Police, who said Friday night they didn’t believe he had access to a car. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Todd made his official visit late in the week, coming over from the chemical laboratory with several younger colleagues. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The younger ones were tired and rigid in their Sunday best, and the older ones were beginning to squirm. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So she must have been at work a lot when you were younger too?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The two boys cowered in the corner of the cage, and the uncle could hear the younger one weeping. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I caught a girl’s eyes, a few years younger than me, hair and clothing rumpled and dirty. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Maya’s parents always wanted to talk about her adoption, especially when she had been younger. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They sat in the library after dinner and read the evening papers together under the droplight, while the younger people went into the drawing room near by and talked. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is a teenager, but her younger brother stands taller. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

On New Year’s Eve the parlor was deserted, for the two younger girls played dressing maids and the two elder were absorbed in the all-important business of ‘getting ready for the party’. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he’d been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself, but the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ll tell you,” Presto said, “the older I get, the younger college kids look. If you asked me, I’d say you were still in high school. What year you in?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

While in the Adams partnership Jefferson was the younger man, he was senior to Madison. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He had his arm around the younger boy's shoulder, as if he wanted to protect him from all that was evil in the world. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was about my height despite the fact that I was two and a half years younger. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Sahar, one of the younger cousins, leaned forward and puffed out her chubby cheeks. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The idea of being Charlie’s younger brother at another school is a bridge entirely too far. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She is ten years younger than I am now. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps a few, the younger arid more foolish who still believed that the gods heard the prayers of desperate men, took it for deliverance. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was a game from when they were younger. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I was glad to see the dogs there, sitting before the fire, and Jasper, the younger, came over to me at once, his tail wagging, and thrust his nose into my hand. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The younger kids looked at me with an awestruck twinkle in their eyes; I was a hero. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The younger boys, who had never been up this late, responded to the generalized slackening of discipline by either tearing up and down the stairs or falling fast asleep on the parlor rug. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The dim, dining-room light had rubbed the wrinkles off her face, leaving it looking—in a strange, sunken way—younger. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In death he looked even younger than he had with blade in hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We then took care of our younger brother, Trampita, while Mama took a nap. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“But I’m younger and shorter and you’re too big, you big fourth grader.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I had the same issue when I was younger.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Staring back at me is someone who looks like a younger version of Hideo, a boy who resembles how Hideo looked several years ago. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He died soon after making this bequest of his life’s work to the stunned younger man, who only weeks before had been a penniless refugee. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I hugged her as if she were a little child, years younger than I was. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

You looked younger, too, with your wide eyes and snub nose. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Of course not. Don’t I always tell you everything? I was ashamed to speak of it before the younger children, but I want you to know all the dreadful things I did at the Moffats’.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was because his victim had been the younger brother of a leader of Sing Sing’s Latin Kings gang and the administration feared that members of the gang in prison would kill him. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few of the younger adults stood right away and joined hands, circling the singers in a chain. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Then a group of younger campers came into the stables to start their riding lessons, and I decided it was time to leave. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Many a younger son of the King in die North had made his seat there, many a brother, many an uncle, many a cousin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The moon might be up in the pastel aqua blue overhead while the sun flamed orange in the west, and other kids, younger boys and girls on bikes, might also stop by. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nora said that no younger kids go into the Hideout, but what about the high school kids? A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“See why I always say younger brothers are better than older brothers?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

But Tycho was not about to make a gift of his life’s work to a much younger potential rival. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some children were running up and down the aisle, laughing and shouting, and a number of younger men lounged near the door, talking loudly and gesticulating with their hands. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

There are only about thirty of us in all, mostly Negroes, with a few of the younger roughnecks to round out the ranks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“You were younger when you had your first drink,” the woman said, giggling. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He would seek out the younger members of the staff “to learn about us and from us,” recalled Alvarez, who was Loomis’s junior by a quarter century. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When he was a younger man, the freezing temperatures and piles of snow hadn’t bothered him so much, but last winter was too brutal. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I wonder if they’re thinking I look like a younger version of them. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before this case, the maximum punishment in Illinois for children younger than thirteen was probation and counseling. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older girls like musical competitions, radio gymnastics, a regular spot called Seasonal Tips for Those in Love that makes the younger children squeal. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sure, Carla could use the practice with her English, but that also meant she would be in the same grade as her younger sister, Sandi. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

One of the younger boys lay on his back, sucking his thumb. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Twelve were spearwives, more than capable of defending both themselves and the younger girls from the unwanted attentions of black brothers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And when he saw his sister start bringing home younger versions of their stepfather to date. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment he thought it might be Yassen, but it was a younger man, dark haired, ugly. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Most of them are a good decade younger than me, and this astounds me. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s funny,” she said, ”you remember when we were younger and I didn’t want you to stop changing at all...Well, The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There’s a picture, framed in light gray, of Cordelia’s two older sisters, done in pastels when they were younger, both wearing smocked dresses, their hair feathery, their eyes like mist. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

If he isn’t old enough to be my father, he’s at least old enough to be my father’s younger brother. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He smiled then, in a way that made him look younger. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, Mama had given me some freshly cleaned blankets to carry. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The third one lingered back with the two younger girls, arms crossed, and said, “Dvorah, you let Mikhail bring home the goyim like stray cats now?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

After breakfast I ran up to my room with the three younger boys on my heels debating what to christen our new charge. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A group of American girls of fourteen or fifteen had dressed up as much younger girls—with pigtails and teddy bears, wearing pajamas and kiddie clothes. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The younger woman kissed and laughed and rushed about collecting our coats and getting our luggage carted off. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Talloi was a very fast runner, even when we were younger. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She was one or two years younger than he, but fully as tall. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

After we younger boys got to know those sports— which none of us had ever seen before being sent off to school—we, too, became great fans. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hrothulf, he knows, is a danger to his sons; but he cannot abandon the child of his dead younger brother. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All! What, all five out at once? Very odd! And you only the second. The younger ones out before the elder ones are married! Your younger sisters must be very young?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

But the cold had weakened him, and Jon’s men were bigger, younger, and stronger. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A couple of the younger nurses, the ones who probably listen to pop radio or watch MTV and have heard of Bikini, look up, their faces excited question marks. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took my place halfway between the younger and the older ones, who scowled at us and jammed the line forward with rough shoves. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The police officers were sitting on the sofa in the living room, a fortysomething man in plain clothes and a younger one in uniform with acne on his neck. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was younger, more recently trained, and could do a light press that lasted. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fourth possibility—older boy, younger boy—is ruled out by the fact that a girl answered the door. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’ll give him a look like she used to when she was younger. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

When a woman approached, the older men tipped their hats; the younger ones opened and closed their thighs. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

My younger brother had once caught four fireflies in a jar for me. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Certainly are,” said a third, a younger man, huge and Nordic blond. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

"My daughter's been responsible for setting a few unnatural beauty trends among the younger courtiers. That terrible blip with the sea-blue skin tone, and the trend where courtiers matched their teacup pets." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Well, my love, I consider him a trump, in the fullest sense of that expressive word, but I do wish he was a little younger and a good deal richer.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the younger children had gone to bed, she said to the boy, “Court’s over.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No doubt it will. But please make it soon. We are not getting any younger, you and I.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It had seemed for months as if Ulbrickson had been quietly favoring the younger boys, but it had been subtle. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The younger woman wore a shiny red headscarf, and a stylish jacket that came down to her hips. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Plus he wore an eye patch, which I’m assuming would have made playing tennis difficult. But his younger brother, Glenn, was a member of the team.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s that vicious dieting cycle, like when I was younger. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“You are such a beauty, child. You remind me of myself when I was younger.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked much younger and less stern than she remembered them. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Walking to the fence, I notice the woman is younger than Mom, with short, brown hair and sunglasses so dark I can’t see her eyes. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so the pleasant evening unraveled—the noisy meal at which I even drank a little wine, the presents, bedtime for the younger children, while their bigger brothers and sisters went off to watch television. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The younger stepsister, Olive, said little, but the little was astonishing. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even though she was six years younger than me, Faizah had closely followed in my fencing footsteps. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Jack was especially fond of Uncle Sigmund, his father’s younger brother, who was only seventeen when Jack was born. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their faces faded; the two younger ones began crying listlessly from hunger and disappointment. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were followed in turn by younger soldiers, all carrying modern arms and equally proud. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baby was with the younger children, crowded near the banana trees, listening to Papa Oji telling a story of how he shot down an enemy plane in Calabar with his pistol. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His hair and mustache being dark, he looked years younger without the gray beard. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I would say probably within the last six to eight months I've seen a real increase in the brutality of the crimes, and also younger kids doing the real brutal stuff. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The younger one was under no such constraints. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw myself in Francine; I was a little younger than her when I was in the camp, and she carried herself as I did. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In church every Sunday, with my younger sister, Adria, at my side, I’d kneel with my eyes tightly shut and pray for my family and my teammates. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Everyone had her favorite; the older widows asked for the poems about the sadness of life and the younger ones for the poems about love. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when I was younger and I got sick, my parents wouldn’t let Lynn in the room with me. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He laughed, looking quite different, younger somehow and less detached. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They got a buddy program for some of the younger residents. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The younger men leaned back on their stools with their knees wide apart, taking up all the room they needed, and were quick to yell out what was on their minds. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few more unanswered texts, I decide I’ll just go knock on her door like I used to back when we were younger. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

When my mother was three months pregnant with my younger sister, Caroline, she was arrested in a sweatshop raid and spent three days in an immigration jail. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

A girl a few years younger than me, petite, fine-featured, comes down the stairs carrying an armful of linens. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The Yorks had a pleasantly comfortable home life, and Ronnie, overloved and overpraised by his parents and a worshipful younger sister, was the adored center of it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

They leaned out of the window for her to kiss them good-bye, and their younger sister began to cry. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

But a few kids are younger—third, maybe fourth grade. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The hardest people to reach, he told me, were the younger folks, the eighteen- to thirty-year-olds who seemed to have no faith in government at all. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He was like a younger brother to me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Several of his younger friends, however, trained in structural chemistry, thought the a-helix looked very pretty. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Now, normally I am very shy, but Nothing seemed like the kind of guy you could just walk up to at a football game even though you were three years younger and not popular. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t had much of the stuff you see on the feed when she was younger. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many kids were jumping off it, several her age or younger. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Who needs friends when I have my younger brother? A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

They’re running a makeshift school for the younger kids, but as of yet there is no Mobius High giving out diplomas. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The younger man was about to hear the story of the Serpent King. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It flashed across Dr. Armstrong's mind that an old man like the judge was far more tenacious of life than a younger man would be. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The younger boys would be set to picking blackberries along the road, or climbing fences to fill a sack with apples if they happened upon an orchard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Another group was trying to groom one of the younger scythes for a position on the selection committee, so that he might sway gleaning choices when they needed those choices swayed. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

"Just so, but why? Other men were stronger, faster, younger, why was Syrio Forel the best? I will tell you now." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her husband left her for a younger woman—she was too good for him anyway. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Same as the chained-up runaway boy that was younger than me, I quit talking, covered my eyes, and cried. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“And I don’t like being hunted by invisible corpse beasts,” said the clown, and he began to pry the older brother from the younger. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The younger Kleynhans advanced with the obvious intent of assaulting me, but when he was a few steps away, his brother ran over, grabbed him, whispered a few words, and the incident passed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Dimple was younger, she’d go running downstairs, heart pounding every single time, terrified something awful had happened. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Very kindly, the girl in the cloakroom called a taxi, and one of the younger members of the door staff carried my bag all the way out to the pavement. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The younger of the pair, a teen whose lambskin hat shielded eyes as dark and riveting as jet, was clearly the more talented swordsman. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He would start to move and rub his eyes with curled fists, gazing at me like a much younger child. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then, just as he reaches over to pull his younger brother closer to him, to see if he’s real, he pictures a dark shadow covering them entirely. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Grandpa Blakeslee was supposed to be next, leading the column of younger, gun-toting veterans who were to charge up North Main Street, playing like this was the Battle of Gettysburg. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He has an adoring younger brother who is also very bright. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“She organized some of the girls and younger boys to flee across the swamp,” Ben continues. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Zu gave us an apologetic shrug before tugging Hina away, back to the circle of younger kids who were engrossed in some kind of card game. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When Jaja and I were younger, from elementary two until about elementary five, he asked us to get the stick ourselves. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, I heard the most beautiful birdsong coming from the top of that tree. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I use my arcana to call the Belle-roses in the teapot back to their younger forms. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Children grabbed younger siblings and fled to the safety of their homes, where stone doors slammed shut and sealed themselves in bursts of silver light. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Had I been a year or two younger I think I should have cried. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Though K.D. was my nephew according to tribal hierarchy, I was younger and far less senior to him. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bad, but better. You are younger than I estimated. Fourteen? Fifteen?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Gibbs Elementary felt very similar to the Baptist College, except the students were much younger at Gibbs. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When Clayton was younger, about six, he thought Pastor Early was God. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

So there I sat on that yellow school bus—Erik Fishers younger brother, Eclipse Boy, visually impaired and totally incapable of following in his brother’s footsteps. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And as the eldest, it will always be your responsibility to look after your younger siblings. Promise us that you will always watch out for them and make sure they don’t get into trouble.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Brand-new clothes that should have been worn by a younger woman. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already that child seems much younger, poorer, farther away, a shrunken, ignorant version of myself. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was nothing like my friends’ parents, who were younger, drove new cars, followed the Mets, talked about civil rights, and foot-raced with us. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The younger Halliday gazes down at the corpse of his older self with mock sadness, then turns to address the assembled mourners.* Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He had shaved off the beard he had grown during their journey, and it made him look younger and more vulnerable. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

At Berkeley, Birge assured him, “the younger men now are being appointed and advanced on an entirely different plane from that of the older men.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

With her clipboard in hand, the younger woman from the registration table rushes to Hannah. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I’m only two hours thirty-seven minutes and thirteen seconds younger than Jude, but she always makes me feel like I’m her little brother. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The older girl shook her head and still cried, but the younger girl took the cheese and commenced to eat. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“You been mighty natural and considerate,” the mother said to the younger children later when she went to the woodpile and called them to pick dry kindling for a quick fire. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boys slightly older were moving on to girls and dating and fitting in with the mores and restrictions of being in their mid teens, which meant, among other things, avoiding associations with younger boys. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Griphook here told me, he heard about it from Bill Weasley who works for the bank. One of the kids who tried to take the sword was Bill’s younger sister.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The younger man stands in front of me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

At the instruction of the elder brother, Olakunde picked up the younger and carried him without. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Of course, both times happened when I was younger. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older fox studied the younger one for a moment, then began to trot. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Even though she was a year younger than her brother, she had long been his keeper. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Another door opened, and in walked a little girl, smaller and younger than all of us. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reading aloud sounds like something more for younger kids, babies almost, but it wasn’t. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

That spring Vivian, a foster child who was slightly younger than me, moved in and slept on a cot in Mrs. Chavez’s room. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

With a slightly cocky look over his shoulder at his younger brother, James took the trolley from his mother and broke into a run. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The massacre came up only briefly, when I was playing in the yard with the youngest daughter, who was around two years younger than me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Often now, Dedd slept over at Mama’s with the two younger boys. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hollis climbed into the back with Sonny and a younger boy Alfred had seen around the neighborhood. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five of the younger teachers were missing, gone into the war. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few who are on the younger side, like Johanna and Finnick, or whose bodies haven’t fallen into disrepair, like Seeder and Brutus, can still manage to maintain a little dignity. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Although I see Cordelia and Grace and Carol every day, I remember none of those things; only that they used to be my friends, when I was younger, before I had other friends. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tuesdays are the worst, because in the afternoon, she has to get Haley to gymnastics and my other younger sister, Semaj, to physical therapy. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

When he was younger, Toby had coveted the expensive basketball shoes everybody else wore. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Only the younger one had a look I recognized. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It didn’t occur to Dr. Philobosian that the twisted body he stepped over in the street belonged to his younger son. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The kid with the knife, my age or younger, quickly backed off. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

A few of the younger boys seemed uneasy, but Chacho and Fidelito proclaimed Matt a national hero after the Keeper left. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to Ruth this was because quite a few of them had done things with each other when they’d been younger, before they’d realised what they were doing. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his other life Maurice had received chastisement for filling a younger eye with sand. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

That Libby knows she is six years too old for Elliott’s younger sister. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Most of the girls stayed in the night before the social, but some of the younger ones were going out to the colored saloon that had recently opened. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, they would lock me up in the closet because they wanted to get high and beat up on each other. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Colonel,” said the peregrine coldly, “not before the younger officers.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says something at first about helping out in his neighborhood as younger kids went trick-or-treating on Halloween, but senses the answer is not satisfactory. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

My dad was younger than most of the varsity team because he was only a sophomore, and I think the team thought he was going to blow the game. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

You said yes and yes over and over even though you knew full well that she used to hide chocolate from her kids when they were younger because she had a sweet tooth.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“She’s coming,” he said to the younger children, and they crowded around him and pushed their faces against the window. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he stared at her and he said to the younger girl, “Take the broom and sweep, for your mother is ill.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

His younger brothers and sister witness his disappointment. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three years later, he enrolled in first grade—for free, because his mom taught there—at the Kalman School, merely one year younger than most of his classmates. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Before my eyes his face lost its wrinkles, smoothing out to look like that of a much younger man, and the cotton....All the cotton in the room began to tremble. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He was as old as my father but in league with the younger generation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If anything, the donations went back to being a subject to be avoided, but not in the way it had been when we were younger. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A shorter, paler, much younger man sneers at us... Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Hearing the wails of sorrow, the younger Torres children crept back inside the house and stood big-eyed against the wall under the Virgin’s altar. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

For a man who is gay, and knows that he is gay, to marry a woman may seem inexplicable now, especially to younger people. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He was only a few years younger than Robb; if his brother was almost a man grown, so was he. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But the younger children couldn’t go past the pine clump toward the big house and the town, or the bramble patch where they picked blackberries in summer in the other direction. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls screamed, turning their backs, and the younger women tried to cover themselves with their hands. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the French windows I saw Squelch playing Twister with two younger kids and a man I guessed was their dad. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Nikolai Baranov, her commander, sent her home on leave to her mother and younger brother in Moscow so she could recuperate. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Their parents congregate beneath, holding the hands of younger siblings and pointing to various marvels appearing in front of them. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He looks younger up close, but older than me—maybe Chantal’s age. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t too difficult, as the younger boys took one look at the shiny, wrinkled gray sacs and turned away in horror; you couldn’t have paid them to put one in their mouths. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She hugged herself tightly and thought maybe she could remember sitting like this before, when she was younger. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It’s not that I ever wanted to go back to live in Ohio, but I do wish she’d been able to make better decisions when she was younger. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He did have an appetite and the younger ones watched closely. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two of the younger guys had never touched a gun before but wanted to see it anyway. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The younger brother’s life had suddenly fitted into a pattern and recognized itself. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ladies, this is Ashley,” he said, placing his hand on the younger girl’s head. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The other was younger, and nearly as tall as the blond man. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The younger children were playing in the yard. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Angela and I were the last to arrive, and, as Eric said our names, I noticed a younger boy sitting on the stones near the fire glance up at me in interest. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They take him and two younger boys, sitting nearby, to a cavernous railroad shed, where seven other officers are holding twenty migrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He would have acted as the dutiful younger until the wise man was far down the road. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

On February 10, Sheriff Clark and his possemen led 165 demonstrators, mostly teenagers and younger children, on a forced march into the countryside. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was talking to my cousin, Maggie, who was a few months younger than I, when Uncle Tom entered the room. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, there was an element of autonomy in the younger girl’s unhappiness. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When he was younger, that collection of features looked strange, but now it suits him. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Now she had only a younger sister, but there had been a time when she also had a younger brother named Sota. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Victor was the younger son and brother—a tête montée, with a temper which invited violence and a will which no ax could break. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

She was younger than Sister McCandless by several years, a single woman who had never, as she testified, known a man. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

This may explain the herbal tea: some younger, more vegetarian influence, in the studio, on the sly. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“She takes you out drinking all the time, and you’re a year younger than me.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“The research shows you can take older people who aren’t functioning well and make them cognitively younger through this training,” Earl Miller, a neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology told me. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They were nonpolitical prisoners and both of our groups were ordered to halt while the two brothers had a chat; the younger brother ordered one of his men to polish his boots while he talked. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her older sister was usually beside her; their parents kept the older daughter back to protect the younger one. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Axel was younger, he would find his way into Byrd and Frank’s bedroom nearly every night. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Sirius was tall and handsome, and younger by far than Harry had seen him in life. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Next to it, there’s a painting of a much younger Granddaddy in his navy uniform. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The younger generation of my tribe, meanwhile, totally cheered me on. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He sounded so much younger than he was. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I could accept him as my ancestor, my younger brother, my friend, but not as my master, and not as my lover. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He followed her in 1868 when she and her younger sister, Tennessee Claflin, moved to New York City to work as spiritualist healers. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Somehow her gaze also took in Chess, making him feel both smaller and younger. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

At the end of the day, I sometimes would sit on a log at the village square and watch the younger boys play their wrestling games. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Although the makeup artists had done a darn good job, Curly could still tell that the old lady in the commercial was actually a much younger woman, and that she was pretty. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We split up by age—the adult class, the high school class, the middle school class, and then there’s a class for the younger kids, and a nursery for the babies. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t used to sharing it with another Emma who also had an older brother named Rochester and a younger brother named Finn. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The world we live in is much younger than you might expect. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She had been coaching some of them since her first season, when they were younger than ten years old. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

On finding Mrs. Bennet, Elizabeth, and one of the younger girls together, soon after breakfast, he addressed the mother in these words: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Elizabeth is only a little younger than you and Melanie,” Caroline said. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I watched Sohrab through the doorway, he seemed younger somehow, swimming in his pajama pants with his shirt tucked in. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“He’s younger than ever. He drank three champagne cocktails last night before dinner.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Dallas had been showing one of the younger boys how to throw a tennis ball over the roof of the Boxton Creek Home. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

There were times when he visited taverns near campus and allowed himself to act gregarious and animated in the manner of younger students. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Pelham’s face was old but she moved like someone younger, and when she smiled I could see that her teeth were still strong. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She told him about Orchid Witch and Bonfire, who were like her younger sisters, and he told her of the abbey, and the orchard, where once he’d played Tizerkane warriors. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And when I was younger, he was one of the only people who could make my mom laugh—like, a laugh that seem to come up from her feet—after we lost my father. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Sí, she would work hard to help Mamá and the younger children. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He was absorbed in a football match involving some younger boys over in the next field and at this stage his mood seemed just fine, tranquil even. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Obiora was a year younger, veiy light- skinned, with honey-colored eyes behind thick glasses, and his mouth turned up at the sides in a perpetual smile. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The younger Cooksey was a competent physicist then investigating the elusive qualities of X-rays, but he knew he was no match for the newcomer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Like I remember this one, where the oldest son, Billy, and his younger siblings are watching their grandmother talk on the phone, and it just said, Grandma’s phone is really old-fashioned. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

His mother tells him that she is a year younger than he is, that she has a much younger brother, that her father is a renowned chemist with a patent to his name. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her face is exactly her own, though forty years younger. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carol and her younger sister have matching outfits for Sundays: fitted brown tweed coats with velvet collars, round brown velvet hats with an elastic under the chin to hold them on. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The younger woman’s voice said, Thank you, Mama. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A younger girl with the same skin color and the same height takes her hand—Christina’s younger sister. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then she looked quizzically at Thalia, as if she weren’t sure what to make of this younger daughter of Zeus. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He thought the adults were the ones being taken to work, while the younger ones would be killed. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

And unfortunately, he looked much younger with his curly red hair, smooth pale skin, and the splash of orange freckles across his nose. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I'm right across the hall if you ever want to talk, kiddo. We used to be pals when you were younger. There’s no reason we can’t get back to that now that we’re roomies again.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Still, I was younger than he was and ignorant of the pressing needs of adolescent boys. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Punctuality was not his strong point—especially now that he was expected to escort his younger siblings and half-siblings to their school before hopping into a publicar and hurrying to his. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They were surrounded by younger men of various shades of brown in sagging pants. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was struggling to think of something appropriate to say when a younger woman spoke up. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When he had worn it, he had been a different man: younger, happier. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

This show, like all of his dazzling performances, delighted the younger students in attendance. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Lily’s unlined face looms, years younger, and then a man, smiling. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

She hugged the younger girl, stroking her hair. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They had had prettier teachers and younger ones, too. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, he thought, they were younger than he. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

There had been no sadness for Jethro when only the little boys were there; these three had been imaginary playmates for him when he was younger. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

From The Hague to Brussels, he puts his arm around his younger brother and says, Let’s do this together. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Everybody has a story, Nana used to say when I was younger. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The bigger boys tossed wet dirt balls at each other, while the younger ones made mud snakes and threw them at the girls. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Many states had changed their laws to make it easier to prosecute children as adults, and my clients were getting younger and younger. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I knew it must’ve been an old picture because she looked much younger than the woman in the casket. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Their passes were crisp, and they chipped their way downfield, using their elbows to control the movements of the younger, smaller team. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

When we were younger, I used to hide in Macy’s closet and scare her. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Once, we were at my pediatrician when I was younger, and a light in the waiting room kept flickering. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He looked at the younger boy who had watched mutely throughout the procedure, “You may go as well, Geri. If anyone asks, I will be in my study. Thank you.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was her mother, looking a bit younger, a bit thinner, but with the same waifish build, the same high cheekbones and pointed chin. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My uncle Velile, my mom’s younger brother, lived with my grandmother, but he spent most of his time at the local tavern getting into fights. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He ran into the pack and insinuated himself onto the younger team. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But then she had been younger when she had had so much fun there. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sirius was the very last of the line as his younger brother, Regulus, predeceased him and both were childless. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pendanski was younger than Mr. Sir, and not nearly as scary looking. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Rosa had lived there, too, when she was younger. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The younger children are restless, and the older boys stir up trouble in small ways, wherever they can find it. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

With his big belly, bushy beard, and laughing eyes, Mr. Rowan had always reminded Jess of a younger version of Santa Claus. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

The stories Eddie had jotted down in his goofy, blocky handwriting, from his own silly creations to the fables Nana used to tell us when we were younger, when she’d come up to visit. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“She has lost her family, but we are not taking her in as an orphan. She will help us with the younger children.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no telling whether Cecilia was familiar with this name, or whether she was displeased that her younger sister was training at the same hospital. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

His beloved first wife died early, in 1909, and the younger of his two sons was killed in the First World War. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

"Then do something else for me now. Ask me why I would not kiss you that night. I had kissed you before, when we were younger, after all." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Honey, it’s time I got married. I’m not getting any younger and you know Joe’s really sweet.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there are the younger ones like me: kids whose crimes cast them out of warm homes, or cold homes, or no homes, by a parental conspiracy that sees all with unblinking Big-Brother eyes. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I could use my personal experiences as an athlete to train and inspire this younger generation, truly making a difference in their lives, including in the life of my sister Faizah. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Fearing that Inka Yupanki was becoming too big for his britches, Wiraqocha Inka chose that moment to remind his younger son of his subordinate status. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And he does—he looks more relaxed, younger. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Jutta, though she is two years younger, is the gifted one. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She pulled her wig off and, with her short hair worn in cornrows, her face looked younger, smaller. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She had four daughters, and I hung out with the younger ones at the party, even though we had some communication challenges. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They’re running a makeshift school for the younger kids, but as of yet there is no Mobius High giving out diplomas. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He rode his bike from his apartment complex near Clarkston to Decatur to watch the younger Fugees team play, and to help Coach carry gear. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Retrenchment had begun at the factory—they were firing older employees and hiring younger ones, for less pay. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Even when my younger brothers chivvied them with sticks out of boredom, they wouldn’t bother to raise their heads. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Martin and Teresa would be trying to reassure the younger ones; yet they themselves would be sadly frightened. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

One of them included combing my younger sister’s hair. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Aged and frail, the maester shared his chambers with two of the younger stewards, who tended to his needs and helped him in his duties. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As he turned the bottles in his long, graceful hands the familiar motion eased a few tired lines from his face, making him seem younger, certainly not yet thirty. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I hate it when he does that. autumnlands: My parents are always comparing me to my perfect younger sister. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

An older female whom she called Donkeyberry, because of the creature’s fondness for the fruit, sat surrounded by a respectful gathering of younger females and babies. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, as their flowering bodies breach the surface, I can replant them deeper, then plant younger plants above them. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s there and I find her sitting with the rest of her family There’s a younger girl and a small boy. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he got a piece of them, but most of the time they just sidestepped him like toreadors or pushed him away as though he was a bothersome younger cousin. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was equally true that a militancy among younger blacks and a concomitant mistrust of all whites worked against Wiley and for McKissick. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the old man move toward the younger man and point outside. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He acts all cool, but the way he be talking makes me think he was more like Sunny when he was younger. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

When I was somewhat younger, working on my famous Dresden book, I asked an old war buddy named Bernard V. O’Hare if I could come to see him. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides her parents, Claire had two brothers and a sister, all of them younger than she. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, she didn’t tend to speak much to us when we were younger. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Robert was my elder brother. You are the younger." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died, his mother yelling at him when he forgot one day and had a hamburger at school. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A younger screecher would have noticed me approaching, but he probably couldn’t hear or smell as well as he used to. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Probably Piers would rather have somebody younger instead — and Maud is so pretty, even though Maud is the one who put all of those slugs in his bed. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

She asked him to go out and keep the younger ones occupied, but he flatly refused. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, I imagined that I was an Indian princess. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

A memory washes over me—Maddy’s sleepover birthday party in fourth grade, when her favorite younger cousin asked if I’m going to hell because I’m not Christian. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Back then it was the older brother looking out for the younger one. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A ripple of excited apprehension ran round the Retiring Room as, under Lord Asriel’s direction, two or three of the younger Scholars carried the wooden box to the front of the room. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She is perhaps eighteen, perhaps a bit younger. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I guess that’s possible. But we don’t know if he even knew Siobhan. He could have been ten years older. Or younger.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t have been more than a year younger than I was. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

That fierceness was gone now, and he seemed younger, maybe not much older than her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

However, some of our younger patrons wanted to know more about our fair town back in the day. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

One woman, Ruth, whose younger brother is incarcerated, says she would never discuss her brother with her co-workers or supervisor, though they have long shared information about their personal lives. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I noticed that my brother, though younger in years, was growing near in height to the prince. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“You sure about that?” the younger white one asks. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Most evenings, the younger kids in the house will gather in the kitchen to study Chinese, and a tutor uses the bamboo stick to point out characters on the blackboard. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That, unfortunately, I do not know. I think I remember reading of a younger sister of Mrs. Armstrong’s.”Poirot went on to relate the joint conclusions of himself and Dr. Constantine. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The younger boys had only cuts and bruises, but Shamsoun had a head injury that required surgery and a weeklong hospital stay. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

When Mam had Maisie there were plenty of neighbors on Elizabeth Street who’d been through it before, and all I had to do was watch the younger kids. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She was thrown into a cargo hold with a group of other children—some older, some younger, mostly girls but a few boys, too. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

One of them looked to be only a few years younger than me, so you couldn’t really say, Ay, poor Papa, he lost it at the end and went behind the palm trees. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He's eleven years younger than I am, and by the time he reached high school, the rest of us had all left home. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

A younger version of the doctor, less crude, indeed polished. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt the importance of the years—as a child measures age—which separated him from the younger children. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had listened to his brother Tom and their cousin Eb, the two younger of the grown boys in the household, and their excitement had found its way into his blood. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another colored girl, younger, washes dishes at the sink. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They do surgery in the Capitol, to make people appear younger and thinner. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

So in one day, I went from having one aunt, one grandma, and a bunch of baby dolls to having a mother, a father, three baby sisters, and two younger brothers. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The old king accepted the younger king’s gift, along with some other things—swords and cups, some girls and young men, her servants. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some suffragists—especially younger women—were open to using new, more radical approaches to reach their goals. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Usually a stickler for accuracy, she was still being cagey about her true age, almost always making herself exactly one year younger. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

After the meal, the younger students would return to their lessons while the older ones took to their chores. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Kaede remembered that the King’s first wife had died more than a decade ago, but he had not remarried until last year, when he chose a much younger bride. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

This usually meant, when I was younger, copying an author’s style. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

In particular, I will remember that as my five younger sisters and I gathered onstage for Harry Belafonte’s closing remarks, 1 remained full. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s about six inches shorter than me, trim, younger than my parents. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Jinjoo picked up her younger brother so he could see better. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, imagining age, I would think, Maybe you appreciate things more when you don’t have much time left. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soojin sighs again, extra loudly, just like she does when her younger sister pesters us to play with her. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The younger men were gathered at another table, where Pyp had stabbed a turnip with his knife. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Susan B. Anthony had outlived not only her longtime friend but all of her siblings as well, except her younger sister, Mary. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I was the kid Spoony made dance in front of his friends when we were younger. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The younger face was at variance with the music of its voice. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When, ultimately, Bobby walked into the lobby of the Astoria Hotel in Leipzig, he was greeted by a man who resembled a younger and handsomer Groucho Marx: Isaac Kashdan, the United States team captain. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Riding through the rainy night, Ned saw Jon Snow's face in front of him, so like a younger version of his own. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You’re not leaving me to carry all these platters!” the old woman snaps at the younger one. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

A boy in pants meant for a younger child follows, beret thrown back on his head, some kind of shiny jacket on. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was old enough for gray to streak his hair, but younger than Min, with a keen eye and a restless manner. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

As I stared at the woman, something in my brain told me that she seemed younger than the picture we’d seen online. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He’d heard, from friends with younger children, that the expensive doll line now had one Asian doll for sale—and a few black ones, too—but he’d never seen it. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Elodin was younger than the others by at least a dozen years. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When we were younger, he used to take us kids places, like the national park and the beach and a playground miles away that had a huge metal rocket ship. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She was almond-buttery with sweat and sun, her face corrugated with a thousand caramel wrinkles and her hair looking flour dusted, but the rest of her seemed decades younger. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her sister was two years the younger, yet she looked older now. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

My younger brother, Ram, whom I always beat at card games, said, “When you play cards with your husband, you’ll have to lose every time.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The people came into view, a mother and two children, one boy near to Roza’s age and another some years younger. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

We talked about food he liked, jobs he'd worked when he was younger. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Even though I was already taller than Abuela, she still made me feel as little as when she’d read stories to me when I was younger. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

To her disappointment, it was the younger boys drilling. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Cordelia tells me that when she was younger she broke a thermometer and ate some of the mercury in it to make herself sick so she wouldn’t have to go to school. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Both inmates and younger officers tend to be on the move. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess Mister Johnny didn’t have the heart to send him home for somebody younger. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Papá took advantage of one of those afternoons to try his new hair clippers on my younger brothers and me. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“I understand what you mean. There was a girl once, long ago. I was younger than you, Matty, but I was at the age when such things begin.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She was almost ten years younger than me, but our paths always crossed during World Cups, and soon we became best friends. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

When she’d first come, she’d overheard him talking to the younger one, Finn, about counselors and doctors and shelters for girls like her. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

About my “little” brother: in truth, Drake is only fourteen months younger than me and just a year behind in school. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Okay, I said, I’m wondering how you don’t envy younger, healthy people. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except she doesn’t say anything about my drawings—she sends three photos of her from when she was younger and asks which one I think is the prettiest. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Two children, one a girl of Lyra’s age and the other a younger boy, came out of one of the streets leading down to the harbor. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The others were younger teenage girls, around fifteen to sixteen years old. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The child was younger than Rufus—dark and slender and small. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He worked as an illustrator when he was younger, but he’s been painting for the last twenty years and has a huge online following. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Of course Sam could claim it was a hardship case—the father gone and only the younger brother left at home. But the feet that Mr. Meeker is considered a Tory won’t help.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The younger brother is hurrying to keep up, even though his shoelace is untied. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

All the younger children were able-bodied seamen who, presumably, ate hardtack and bunked before the mast. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was much younger than I, and if I didn’t take him by surprise I was done for. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pressed play while he strutted off the bus, hitting a few younger kids on the back of the head. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He said, “Bloody hell, policemen really are getting younger, aren’t they.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Jacob is not that much younger than I am,” I reminded him. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Ritu auntie reached in her bag and handed a dollar bill to Dimple, a common practice for elders when younger people were entering a new stage of their life. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Joseph was coming along to give the younger team support. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He was nothing like my friends’ parents, who were younger, drove new cars, followed the Mets, talked about civil rights, and foot-raced with us. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Lyra was younger, he had taken an interest in her spiritual welfare, only to be confounded by her sly indifference and insincere repentances. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Curled up there in a protective little ball was another kid, about my age, or maybe a year younger. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, I thought the cloud would get so heavy that all my prayers would come falling down and I’d have everything I wished for, but now I’m eleven so I know better. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Earlier in the year, a parent had come in to meet with her and had brought along a younger sibling. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Fly across the United States, and you will step from the plane a quinzillionth of a second, or something, younger than those you left behind. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, I read a book about grizzly bears. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

When my friends and I were younger and we were at the mall bored out of our minds, we used to play this game. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

One of the younger boys tried to pull him down to earth, but Vetch merely drifted up a little higher, out of reach, and sat calmly smiling on the air. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

That was just another example of why my respect for my younger brother kept increasing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Went to school with me. He’s a year younger, though,” Neil said. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

What for instance was he doing with two women fifteen years younger than himself? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As she quieted down, she seemed younger and more childlike. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m close enough to see their faces and to register that most of them are young—younger than me. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Jeremiah had never shown much interest in the outcomes of the older boys’ games, so Luma rightly deduced that Mandela was putting his younger brother up to the calls. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Joffrey feigned a yawn and turned to his younger brother. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But you know, when I was younger my favorite thing to eat was cereal. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

In a Shakespearian move, Wiraqocha Inka decided to settle the issue by murdering his inconvenient younger son. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Some of the younger fishermen, those who used buoys as floats for their lines and had motorboats, bought when the shark livers had brought much money, spoke of her as el mar which is masculine. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leo recognized her with no problem, though she looked about two years younger than now. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We knew the authorities had long resented and feared the influence we had on younger prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked, in the moonlight, much younger than he was. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

When Stanley was younger he used to play with stuffed animals, and pretend the animals were at camp. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Jeremiah, Mandela’s younger brother, began to call Luma after the Under Fifteen games to ask about the scores. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Boys get teased for having younger sisters, or sisters of any kind, or mothers; it’s like having new clothes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And there was a young man who looked so much like Mr. Taphouse, only fifty years younger, that Malcolm almost jumped up and greeted him. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Somehow his younger brother, Vincenzo, had managed to outrun the deadly wave and survive. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“It was my younger daughter, who is rather quiet herself, who convinced me of the need to speak out. She left this in my purse.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he drew nearer, he saw that the younger kids were sitting in the backseat, among suitcases, and peering out at him through steamy windows. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At his side, like a useless appendage, is his wife, twenty-seven years younger and equally poor, whose arms and legs are loaded with real and fake bracelets and rings left over from more prosperous days. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Nine,” said April, with a cool smile, “is a lot younger than eleven.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a boy that looked like he was a little younger than me. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

When I was five years old and my younger sister, Judy, was one, we all went to live in France. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes plead with me to understand, but I recognize his tone—it’s the one he employed when we were younger, to scold me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Rooster Jim claims to be “near to sixty” and he puts in days that would send a younger man straight to his bed. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

As a younger child, whenever Charlie got very scared or anxious, he would sometimes start trembling and shaking. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

With a younger brother and sister to care for, and little gold left to them, there could no longer be any question of Albus accompanying me. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Course, he didn’t have no hair, but I suspect it was chestnut, like yours, when he was younger.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

People were always doing that in movies when I was younger. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

When I was small, much younger than I am now, Pa told me that in a certain Chinese dialect my name, Loung, translates into “dragon.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was younger than the other two mamas, and in past summers we would spend hours in the nursery, doing each other’s hair. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

In it, a section of the back of my head is visible; but the hair is different, younger. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gray hair or not, he suddenly looked twenty years younger. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

When he was younger, he’d sit at the bar and eat tater tots or grilled cheese while his dad laughed and held court for hours at a time. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Anyway, the kind of wisdom younger people sought from old age was not to be acquired in this life no matter how many years they lived. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

So for the time being, my parents’ worries about their younger son’s physical health were compounded by their worries about their older son’s mental health. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a handsome guy and a lot younger than I expected, in his early thirties, I’d guess. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Feasts like this didn’t happen in Terrance’s domain, for the younger brother was stingy with slave amusements. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

At eighteen, Pesza was sent to the right with the younger, stronger women. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Is there some way humans can grow younger, too? The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I said he was a lot younger and a real pain. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the way, a woman who looked a little younger than my mother welcomed us into her tent. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

"He called me boy," Joffrey said peevishly, sounding younger than his years. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She had always seemed younger than the other mothers, partly because of her size, but also because her face possessed a childlike quality. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa Firewood shook his legs at the younger spider. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“He’s not like his younger brother, you know,” he says, his head resting in the seam of the high chairback. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not like younger men being very incoherent, very passionate, swearing impossibilities. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She often addresses her younger brother with sarcasm. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He is Frank Volkheimer, an upperclassman, seventeen years old, a colossal boy from some boreal village, a legend among the younger cadets. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I played it with Carlos and my younger brothers, Trampita, Torito, and Ruben, on school days when I had no homework, and on weekends when I was not too tired from working in the fields. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, Granddaddy would let me watch soap operas with him every afternoon in the summer. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Nice moves, kid. I used to do a little kendo in my younger days.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She sat rigid in the principal’s chair, and a younger woman hovered behind her. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Usually he’d be nice to younger kids—but since he was told he had to be nice, he suddenly found he didn’t want to be. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Ravi was already there, and like all younger brothers, I would suffer from following in the footsteps of a popular older sibling. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of starting right off, she pulled out her map and showed the younger children where they were. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

This uncle was the younger brother of Wang Lung’s father, and by all the claims of relationship he might depend upon Wang Lung if he had not enough for himself and his family. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The younger boys, whose fingers itched to show their skills, grabbed their own small drums and joined the beat. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He needed a younger brother like Claudia’s, who had a ton of money, or he needed to have a stroke of good luck. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

A couple of the younger neighborhood kids sat on the stairs that overlooked the front hall and the living room. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The younger children, unfortunately, had no such comforting philosophy to fall back on. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

An older man and a younger man, both wearing green vests and baseball caps, stood behind the counter, chitchatting. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Huddled with her parents and six younger sisters and brothers, Nguyen peered out the window. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Were you sensible, Sarah? Did you try when you were younger?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I told my psychiatrist about the book and Bill and about Sam and Patrick and all their colleges, but he just keeps asking me questions about when I was younger. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was six years younger than Bobby but acted in a fatherly way toward him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose she was younger, but I can’t say she seems any older now. She always struck me as being older than her years.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was probably about eighteen, but so skinny and sickly pale, he could’ve passed for younger. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The younger two sets of twins laughed and pointed at Ivan on the ground. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I have to admit, it’s been impressive to see my brother turn into a coach to the younger boys at the center, who all adore him. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

If I were younger, I would curl up with the chocolate and tell Mama about my hard day. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Now, under the younger March’s direction, the stadium was undergoing renovations in preparation for the 1936 Olympics, which Germany was to host. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Not all my hopes, Kate, no. That would be rash. But the world can surprise you. I am a younger man, but this much I do know.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

With a jerk the older soldier grabbed the rope away from the younger one and marched Jonathan along the road with them. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Jack is bending down and wiping his long knife off on a younger woman’s dress. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“He never had gold there when he was younger, because nobody left him anything. He would have seen the bank from the outside, though, the first time he ever went to Diagon Alley.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Fang looked like a younger, more battered version of Steven Tyler—the fern lead singer of Aerosmith—but minus the strut. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The adults in Volpe’s household—his mother, father, and maternal grandmother—spoke Italian to one another, but not to him or his younger sister, Rosemary. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

In his mind Lefty Stephanides grew younger and younger while in actuality he continued to age, so that he often tried to lift things he couldn’t or to tackle stairs his legs couldn’t climb. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"Beth, you shouldn't make up stories," Sansa corrected the younger girl, gently stroking her hair to take the harshness out of her words. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z