boy scout

Example Sentences

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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

At first, Charlie Hey, 12, didn’t think much of it when his Boy Scout troop passed an elderly man standing at the edge of a trail deep in the Emigrant Wilderness.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 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

That old fake about the moss growing on the north sides of trees lied to me when I was a Boy Scout.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck