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