BOYHOOD in a Sentence
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27 example sentences for BOYHOOD, such as:
1. He had a fund of stories about his boyhood.
2. The accordion music reminds me of my boyhood.
3. I had visited it frequently during my boyhood.
4. It had got filled since my boyhood with rivers and lakes and names.
5. My album of boyhood photographs often reminds me of the past happiness.
2. The accordion music reminds me of my boyhood.
3. I had visited it frequently during my boyhood.
4. It had got filled since my boyhood with rivers and lakes and names.
5. My album of boyhood photographs often reminds me of the past happiness.
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Meanings and Examples of BOYHOOD
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boyhood
n. the childhood of a boy
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1 His soul had arisen from the grave of boyhood, spurning her grave-clothes.
2 It had got filled since my boyhood with rivers and lakes and names.
3 Yes; there had been things in his boyhood that he had not understood.
4 Grace was his, and the white purity of boyhood, and beauty such as old Greek marbles kept for us.
5 When the blood crept from its face, and left behind a pallid mask of chalk with leaden eyes, he would keep the glamour of boyhood.
6 There would be the wrinkled throat, the cold, blue-veined hands, the twisted body, that he remembered in the grandfather who had been so stern to him in his boyhood.
7 I had visited it frequently during my boyhood.
8 Some turn in the road, some new object suddenly perceived and recognized, reminded me of days gone by, and were associated with the lighthearted gaiety of boyhood.
9 It was as if the tranquil sanctuary of my boyhood had been sacked before my face, and its peace and honour given to the winds.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
10 I said he was my dearest friend, the protector of my boyhood, and the companion of my prime.
11 I cannot say at what stage of my grief it first became associated with the reflection, that, in my wayward boyhood, I had thrown away the treasure of her love.
12 It is in the early days of rollicking boyhood that the revelation first bursts upon one, all in a day, as it were.
13 No bitter meanness now shall sicken his baby heart till it die a living death, no taunt shall madden his happy boyhood.
14 For the first time the young man recognized his dark boyhood playmate, and John knew that it was the Judge's son.
15 In fact, the greater part of the education I secured in my boyhood was gathered through the night-school after my day's work was done.
Example Sentence:
1 He had a fund of stories about his boyhood.
2 The accordion music reminds me of my boyhood.
3 My album of boyhood photographs often reminds me of the past happiness.