As young as ever

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

Frank looks as young as ever + none the worse for his experiences + Pete a little chunckier but still the peanut butter kid, I'll bet.

Sure, Kauto looked as young as ever when he tore away with the King George but Kempton is not the sort of place to expose the beginnings of frailty.

Well, never underestimate the potency of a wobbly Moog and a wailing disco queen, because I Feel Love continues to resonate through club music and beyond a full 20 years beyond Eno's reckoning, and somehow feels as young as ever.

It was lovely, for example, to get a message from the tiny Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu assuring me that Sethy John Regenvanu, author of the zestful memoir Laef Blong Mi (about the only published text you'll find from this country of only 250,000 people), was "still as young as ever".

Time might have silvered and thinned the hair on their heads, but the music they were making now was as young as ever, exuberantly rattling through processes of growing complexity and changing pattern against a stable pulse and a stable repeating frame.

Torvi (Georgia Hirst), too, remains as young as ever.

The press & the public reacted to the boys' arrest with horrified dismay; no children as young as Ricky and Isaac had ever been charged with murder.

Although some of the children were as young as four, none were ever shown any affection – except of a dubious nature.

There are turf wars between neighborhoods, expulsions from houses and even rapes and murders (since some fans are as young as 12, nothing is ever more graphic than an "R" rating).

Someone wondered, as young as McDaniels is, if he ever felt he was in over his head.

And they wondered, these guys as young as 45, if they would ever have sex again.