Example sentences for: boyish

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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