Example sentences for: boy

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

  • Boy oh boy, are the papers ever full of Thanksgiving space-killer features today.

  • She recalled a report on TV the night before about a teenager who shot an even younger boy to death as part of a gang initiation.

  • Listeners were diverted to hear him explain, in answer to a question about his personal life, that his pastimes included “middle-aged antics,” and they must have wondered what innocent japes--or perhaps amorous frolics--the old boy got up to, until they worked out that middle-aged was his very reasonable attempt at translating du moyen age (medieval), and that antics was his Gallic stress pattern for `antiques'.

  • Girls play this game in Mexico also, with a boy as the center player, which Inez Cardozo-Freeman interprets as a portrayal of betrayal and abandonment preparing little girls for marriage.

  • Defending the First Boy Scout


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