How to Use angry young man in a Sentence

angry young man

noun
  • Of course, angry young men will still kill people, with pickup trucks, knives, sticks and fists.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2019
  • It’s taken me from being an angry young man to being a very calm, mellow adult.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 12 June 2024
  • Moses’s outfit is darker and dirtier, which is a spot-on look for this angry young man.
    — Marilyn Stasio, Variety, 22 Aug. 2021
  • Or it could be tucked into the waistband of an angry young man and used in another homicide.
    — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 1 Feb. 2018
  • The teachers who met James Earl Ray as a boy saw a proud, angry young man suffering from neglect.
    — Héctor Tobar, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
  • More to the point, what does the Democratic Party really offer these angry young men?
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The suggestion that lost, angry young men might do better to channel their energies towards basic grooming and life skills is not an unhelpful one.
    — Laurie Penny, Longreads, 12 July 2018
  • At the time, however, critics and listeners mostly found the band insane—four angry young men brazenly wrecking themselves in service of who knows what.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Dissatisfied with the allocation of resources, these angry young men are prone to join urban riots, for example.
    — Mohammad Ali Kadivar, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Argentina’s tear-it-all-down frontrunner connects with angry young men Polls here show Milei leading the field of five candidates.
    — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2023
  • The abused 8-year-old is suddenly the blasé college student; the angry young man is soon the emotional dropout, nearly as bad as his father and halfway pickled in gin.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2020
  • For the angry young person or angry young man specifically, who doesn’t kill himself, who graduates, who gets a job, who becomes a stable member of society—where does that anger go?
    — Hazlitt, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Facing both the threat and the actual use of violence by angry young men for the crime of defying social customs, Singh improbably wins the election.
    — Milan Vaishnav, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The layered neo-noir film, adapted from Chuck Palahniuk’s novel of the same name, offers angry young men rituals, language, and an origin story for their fury.
    — Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Fellow student Thomas has graduated into an angry young man, critical of his father and overbearing toward his sister.
    — Malcolm Forbes Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 18 Dec. 2020
  • His character, Raj, presented a new model of masculinity that wasn’t the angry young man of the previous generation.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
  • On Sunday, angry young men stormed a hospital treating Ebola patients, forcing medical staff to evacuate the sick as gunfire rang out.
    — Justin Kabumba, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2026
  • Bottomley plays the bruised, angry young man with conviction, but the script never puts enough meat on the bones of his conflict to make Brian much more than a generic casualty of a troubled family.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2025
  • His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk, a vulnerable and angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a military colonel.
    — Travis Bean, Forbes, 10 June 2022
  • The shooting Friday evening sparked protests in Mogadishu that continued Saturday with crowds of angry young men burning tires and demanding justice.
    — Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 26 Apr. 2020
  • Amid the ensuing outcry, a crowd of angry young men estimated to be in the hundreds gathered at Restell’s doorstep, jeering and screaming for her to be driven from New York.
    — Moira Donegan, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Argentina’s tear-it-all-down frontrunner connects with angry young men The question is whether Milei will be able to fulfill his mandate with strapped financial resources, no governing experience and few political allies in the legislature.
    — David Feliba, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023

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