Example sentences for: boyish

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

  • Further, since les in this special usage has its origin in boyish slang, it implies masculinity, as guys might in English.

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

  • 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.

  • Of the three commercial anchors, Peter Jennings is Canadian, and has that randy gaze that makes men hide their wives; Tom Brokaw looks too boyish, and has a speech impediment; and Dan Rather is famously nuts.

  • Spader is a bit too sincere and boyish to play the jaded libertine Ballard, but he's a fine actor and unquestionably game.


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