boy scout
Example Sentences
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All you have to do is be a Boy Scout and plan for the worst, which we did.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
He still plays videogame marathons with a fellow former Boy Scout, Demitri Camperos, whose parents lost the Altadena home where he grew up in the fires.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025
Trinkets from his Boy Scout days, winter sweaters for the dogs, and $60 worth of food were among his missing belongings.
From Slate • Oct. 8, 2025
The on-screen Blue Boy Scout conveyed a Smallville-bred sense of humility throughout, saying he almost didn’t take the role of Superman for fear of being too busy to help with a newborn.
From Salon • Jul. 13, 2025
There happened to be a Boy Scout drum and bugle corps located in the housing project next to ours.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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