Example sentences for: boy

How can you use “boy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Columbia/HCA , the country's biggest medical provider, is becoming the poster boy of corporate health-care greed.

  • A boy in rags notices her rather bony legs, so he levels her with Hi girl, you ain' 'fraid hungry dog see you?

  • The two stories further illustrate the unease, even hostility, that blacks have tended to feel about their folklore, and about black history generally: In "That I Had the Wings," Riley, a young black boy Ellison uses in several stories, hates his Aunt Kate and wishes she "had died back in slavery times"; in "Flying Home," the black pilot who seeks escape hates the black farmer who rescued him after his crash.

  • A young black boy dribbles a basketball across an improbably bucolic New Jersey toward the Statue of Liberty, Manhattan behind her.

  • As this story went to press, Today's Papers was still unsure whether it was endearing or alarming that George the elder referred to the 53-year-old potential Leader of the Free World as "this boy."


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