Example sentences for: boys

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

  • In one dialect of English, the plural of nouns is formed by adding [s] or [z] or [\?\], resulting in forms like [posts] [boyz] and [bus\?\s] for posts, boys and buses .

  • One last diminutive suffix is - o , a macho one for boys only-- Tommo for Tommy .

  • When I was teaching there, the explanation invariably given by boys brought to me for scrapping in the playground was: “Ee it oi, so oi it ee.”

  • The boys, wearing false moustaches, try to impress the girls as they strut and preen like fighting roosters.

  • It was at el baile that courtship occurred (since girls, although they may have gone to the dance chaperoned, were allowed to dance with boys); it was at el baile that families and relatives interacted, that the week’s work was forgotten, and that life’s mysteries were discussed.


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