impressionable age

collocation in English

meaningsofimpressionableandage

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impressionable
adjective
uk
/ɪmˈpreʃ.ən.ə.bəl/us
/ɪmˈpreʃ.ən.ə.bəl/
easily influenced by other people, especially because you ...
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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 ofimpressionableandagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There was no doubt, it said, of the importance of training children in good habits at the mostimpressionableage, and of the nursery school's value in influencing parents.
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As has been rightly said, we take them at their mostimpressionableage.
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I think that everybody of animpressionableageis being educated in spite of himself, sometimes for good and at other times for evil.
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It is, of course, a truism to say that the mostimpressionableagein anyone's life is at the time of leaving school.
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That is not setting the right example for children at animpressionableage.
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Perhaps the headmaster may have made the suggestion to them when they were of animpressionableage.
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From 18 to 21 is animpressionableageto have the free handling of large sums of money.
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These goods can be bought by children who are at their mostimpressionableage.
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The people who will benefit from attendance at these colleges will be at the most difficult andimpressionableage.
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I think you will agree with me that the 15-year-old still needs some form of guidance; it is animpressionableage.
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First offenders especially are nearly all young and at animpressionableageand therefore much more subject to kindly, sympathetic and helpful after care.
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I have children coming up to a particularlyimpressionableage.
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The system of securing lodgings in the town is wholly bad, because it removes a child from parental control at its mostimpressionableage.
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When such things happen as are happening at a highlyimpressionableage, what effect do they have on the next generation?
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At that important,impressionableage, therefore, young people do not have role models in science.
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They are at animpressionableageand are also developing their personal beliefs and values.
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To do that when young people are at animpressionableagewill guarantee that they do not look at drama again for years.
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People therefore have a right not to be pressurised by manipulative, seductive advertising into starting smoking at animpressionableage.
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I do not think that it needs to be argued that the cinema is a means of very great influence upon the minds of children at animpressionableage.
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First, it is not necessarily a good thing to submit a young person to the experience of prison, as it may have a corrupting effect at animpressionableage.
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