Example sentences for: boys

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

  • The Sailor's Wordbook , published more than a hundred years ago, offers this explanation: “ `Son of a gun' is an epithet conveying contempt in a slight degree and was originally applied to boys born afloat.

  • She said, "The surge of feeling for 'our boys' on their departure is dangerously fuelling nationalist sentiment in both countries.

  • Think of all the inner-city girls who have babies, and all the inner-city boys who are dead.

  • My last word on the Backstreet Boys is that Howard Stern has a magnificent parody of "I Want It That Way" called "Get KY."

  • Idioms are sometimes not quite on the mark--for example, references to Kinski's pals sleeping with "minor boys" and "minor girls."


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