Sample Sentences forcallow (auto-selected)
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She described him as shallow and callow.callow = young and inexperienced
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Nwoye's callow mind was greatly puzzled.† (source)
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Because I can feel her changing me again: I was a callow boy, and then a man, good and bad.† (source)
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Ruess was, in the words of Wallace Stegner, "a callow romantic, an adolescent esthete, an atavistic wanderer of the wastelands":† (source)
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The only emissaries from the outside world are the occasional songbird who lands in the lindens beyond the quadrangle, blown astray by distant storm or battle or both, and two callow-faced corporals who come into the refectory every week or so—always after the prayer, always just as the boys have placed the first morsel of dinner in their mouths—to pass beneath the blazonry and stop behind a cadet and whisper in his ear that his father has been killed in action.† (source)
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A callow youth, always smiling, skilled with a how; it was hard to imag Me him as Lord of Winterfell.† (source)
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He thinks him callow and incapable of governing, and finds it galling that a man who was a mere lieutenant during the Second World War is taking over the presidency from the general who directed the D-Day invasion.† (source)
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It advertised his callowness—a callowness sheer and unutterable.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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A troop of newly arrived students, very young, pink and callow, followed nervously, rather abjectly, at the Director's heels.† (source)
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News-items and three-line editorial squibs dug at his tyranny, his ignorance, his callowness.† (source)
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I felt the puissance and evil of their thoughtless, callow maggotry.† (source)
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It advertised his callowness—a callowness sheer and unutterable.† (source)
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Such a callow, inexperienced youth, she thought.† (source)
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I was young and callow, but that youthfulness was also inescapably pure.† (source)
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Six months ago, the first time he set out to find her, he was still a callow kid.† (source)
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Luke's bitchiness was inept and sentimental by comparison, mere callow petulance.† (source)
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