boy

Example Sentences

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When the United fans rounded on players then their local boy, the lifelong fan, was one of the first to get it.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

In a separate incident in Lake Forest, the mother of a 14-year-old was charged after her son allegedly crashed into an 81-year-old man in April as the boy was doing wheelies on his e-motorcycle.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

It opens in a London pub, where Rodrigo is besotted by a boy who "looks like an angel on the walls of Versailles".

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Years after 1929’s Great Crash, he told a story about receiving stock-market advice from his shoeshine boy, realizing it was time to get out.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

I’m no longer the boy in the cotton field.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes