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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:

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.
His boyhood was marked by immersion in astronomy and telescope-making, but saddened by the painful illness of his sister.
Part 1 of an autobiographical trilogy, Boyhood is the story of a boy forced to endure and imagine his way out of that barrenness.
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?
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.