Example sentences for: boyhood

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

  • So most nicknames are the inheritance of boyhood features or facial characteristics, e.g., Chubby, Porgie, Moon, Snail, Speedy (apparently his opposite), Peg-Leg, and the like, all delineating good friends of mine.

  • He sobbed when he paid a recent visit to Ike's boyhood home in Abilene, Kan.; when he retired from the Senate earlier this summer; when he visited his hometown of Russell, Kan., in March; when he helped plant Nixon in Whittier in 1994; when he talked on 60 Minutes in 1993 about his father visiting him in the hospital; when he attended a Senate party in 1992 for the defeated George Bush; whenever he hears "You'll Never Walk Alone" (which he played continuously during his recovery); during a Ford/Dole campaign stop in Russell (he always seems to cry in Russell) in 1976, which he included in a later campaign video.

  • What happened to the earnest, apolitical, cultural youth described by his boyhood friend August Kubizek--the one who went to the opera every other night and filled his days sketching and writing?

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

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


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