boyhood

Example Sentences

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Raffi Quirke, a boyhood Sale fan, signed off before a summer move to Newcastle with a blindside dart and cute chip to set up one of Arron Reed's two tries.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

Scotland striker Lawrence Shankland says he is fulfilling his "dream" of joining "boyhood club" Rangers after completing his transfer from Scottish Premiership rivals Heart of Midlothian for what both clubs say are "undisclosed terms".

From BBC • May 26, 2026

It’s an evolving boyhood, framed with unshowy elegance by cinematographer Karl Walter Lindenlaub against the island’s flat, grassy, weather-rich horizons.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

Once we’ve shaken hands on this unavoidable tension, we can wrestle with Antoine Fuqua’s “Michael,” an open-hearted biopic of Jackson, extending from his boyhood in Gary, Ind., to the late-’80s tour for “Bad.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

We lived in a less grand style in Qunu, but it was in that village near Umtata that I spent the happiest years of my boyhood and whence I trace my earliest memories.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela