Example sentences for: boyhood

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

  • Part 1 of an autobiographical trilogy, Boyhood is the story of a boy forced to endure and imagine his way out of that barrenness.

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

  • An amusing example of this kind of semantic confusion will be found in Chapter XX of Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow . From boyhood the romantic, poetically inclined hero, Denis Stone, found the word carminative particularly evocative.

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

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


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