Example sentences for: boyhood

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

  • Once on a trip to Detroit, where I was born, I tried to visit the scenes of my boyhood.

  • His boyhood was marked by immersion in astronomy and telescope-making, but saddened by the painful illness of his sister.

  • Boyhood's grand fumblings put me in mind of V.S.

  • Likewise, there is no mistaking the political underpinnings of Boyhood . There are cozy images of empire: John's obsession with cricket ("not a game ...

  • The breakdown occasions a jigsaw of memories: of an upstate New York boyhood dominated by a local-hero dad; of doomed attempts to make it in the straight world of Manhattan advertising; of romantic humiliations at the hands of perky centerfold blondes; and, finally, of dreamlike interludes in sadistic mental hospitals.


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