How to Use whippersnapper in a Sentence

whippersnapper

noun
  • And winning against all these young whippersnappers still has this clock in shock.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 9 May 2024
  • Old fogeys and young whippersnappers put their knowledge of trivia to the test for a second season.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
  • And there may be clams around cold seeps or on the Antarctic sea bottom that make Ming look like a whippersnapper.
    — Steven N. Austad, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Help impart some old-school championship lessons on his young whippersnapper teammates.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Now stop being such an ungrateful whippersnapper, and call your grandma.
    — Courtney Shea, refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2020
  • In modern-day literature, whippersnappers who wouldn't know a mule from a hole in the ground are killing mules by the caravan.
    — Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2011
  • In modern-day literature, whippersnappers who wouldn't know a mule from a hole in the ground are killing mules by the caravan.
    — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
  • The sensation is akin to being a still-fit grandpa that shows up to a family reunion that’s filled with young whippersnappers.
    — Marco Della Cava, Robb Report, 27 Apr. 2023
  • And the Sharks have no obvious replacement for him — no young whippersnapper in the pipeline ready for his moment.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025
  • And don’t worry, that handsome whippersnapper Jesse Palmer will be there to lend a sympathetic ear along the way.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Cook, 32, acknowledges that most young whippersnappers just don’t print out photos as part of their regular routine.
    — Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Mills gives off the disarming sense of a secure soul undeterred by whippersnappers who toss around fancy words such as gerontocracy.
    — Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The space is now occupied by the flagship of Hackett, a company that is a relative whippersnapper at 37 years old.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2020
  • Would this shirtless whippersnapper rob Timothée of his title?
    — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2018
  • The tree was probably a young whippersnapper when the city was founded in 1836, McBain figures.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Trains make all these cars look like whippersnappers; fellow Hall member Lionel Trains dates all the way back to 1900.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Saturday, the Sharks were finished off by an Oilers’ squad of young whippersnappers, many of whom had never been involved in any postseason games.
    — Mark Purdy, The Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2017
  • Wilson was not the only whippersnapper onstage at TED on Wednesday.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2013
  • There are certainly octogenarians who are physically fit, sharp as a tack, and as competent at work as any whippersnapper.
    — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Oct. 2017
  • The day is fast approaching when Tiger Woods and Brooks Koepka will be chasing these whippersnappers at majors, not leading the way.
    — Tad Reeve, Twin Cities, 6 July 2019
  • In many of the most popular clips, these whippersnappers engage in adultlike conversations, amusingly given their babyish voices.
    — Katherine Rosman, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2017
  • And Markey has defeated whippersnapper-type political foes before.
    — David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The makeup artist turned beauty-brand entrepreneur is an undeniable legend — a luminary in a way that a teen TikTok whippersnapper could only hope to be.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Meanwhile, private investigator Julie (Estrada) seeks an investigative assistant but isn't in the market to hire a young whippersnapper.
    — Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 21 Nov. 2024
  • More, the coaches of the last three title-winning teams (Florida’s Todd Golden and Hurley) all come from the current crop of whippersnappers, as do the leaders of each 1-seed in this tourney.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The young whippersnappers in their nice Manhattan apartments see the COVID-19 pandemic as simply one more roadblock between them and hooking up.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 2 June 2026
  • Brian Switek, one of the junior members of the science-blogging-whippersnapper brigade, has written a detailed look back at the saga of Darwinius, the primate fossil that held Mayor Bloomberg captive at a press conference.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2010
  • The reasons for the show’s appeal are manifold, starting with the odd-trio chemistry of the three leads (Short, plus his longtime co-conspirator Steve Martin and relative whippersnapper Selena Gomez).
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2025

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