Example sentences for: boyish

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

  • friend not seen for years: gray whiskers around the boyish smile

  • calls a boyish American soldier (Mark Wahlberg) to distant buddies at the start of Three Kings . He stands in a flat, whitish Iraqi desert dotted with mounds.

  • Before the crash, the boyish, gap-toothed Brinkley was known primarily as a Michael Beschloss-in-waiting, a telegenic historian fielding calls from the cable news networks.

  • The latest version of the swashbuckling legend makes critics wax nostalgic for the era "when boyish adventure films still had their innocence" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). This time an aging Zorro (Anthony Hopkins) passes the mask to Antonio Banderas.

  • His eloquence, his calm in the face of danger, his small-town-Ohio decency, his boyish freckles--they canonized him.


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