tender age

collocation in English

meaningsoftenderandage

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tender
adjective
uk
/ˈten.dər/us
/ˈten.dɚ/
gentle, loving, ...
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age
noun
uk
/eɪdʒ/us
/eɪdʒ/
the period of time someone has been alive or something ...
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(Definition oftenderandagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftender age

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I observed the attractions of special elegance in language at a fairlytenderage.
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Unfortunately my grandfather passed away at thetenderageof 38.
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They train their boys from atenderage.
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We send our boys into coalmines at thetenderageof 14.
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The first deputation object altogether to boys oftenderagebelonging to a semi-military organisation.
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Children of thattenderageare not considered to be capable of crime.
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I hope that will not be done except in the case of persons oftenderage.
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When he went to prison, he was of a verytenderage.
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Some of the best preparation for our people will take place at atenderage.
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I could not stand here and defend a semi-military formation for children oftenderage.
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But he himself found vagrant boys oftenderagesleeping outside the doors of houses.
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The second is that children oftenderageare in need of special protection because they do not appreciate dangers.
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It is not a good thing to take young people away from home at thattenderage.
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There has been paraded before those boys oftenderagean obvious, ugly temptation to which some of them succumbed.
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We stand to lose them because of an imbecile test at thetenderageof just over ten.
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It would be cruel to take children oftenderagefrom her, and they are left with her.
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It can lead to the spread of infection as well as traumatising girls at atenderage.
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What could a boy of thattenderagewant which will cost anything like that amount of money?
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He started his career at atenderage.
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He started composing poetry at thetenderageof nine.
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At thattenderagehe started playing with keyboards.
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At thetenderageof nine, he was married.
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Listening to him, it is easy to understand how he has attained such great eminence in his career and at such atenderage.
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