How to use "youth" in a sentence

I'm going to throw away my youth, my career, my whole life, and dive into poverty with a woman around my neck..

In a country that worshiped youth, most elderly Americans devoutly desired to discover a place where they belonged, but unlike the duchesses, many of them never found it.

Then, he'd had the resiliency of youth and had been less burdened with respect for death than he was now