boyhood
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The symphony has been a been a musical and spiritual guide for him since his boyhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
My mother’s ancestors and my father’s boyhood and Sappho’s fragments and the sea that raised me are all still there, waiting, under a sky the color of alarm.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
A boyhood Chelsea supporter, Monga rates their former Belgium international Eden Hazard as his idol and is intent on emulating the forward.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Trout built a family home near his boyhood home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
And washing the sleep from my face, I remembered how for a time in my boyhood I would often awake before dawn and step outside on the front porch.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
Their locks are scruffy, scraggly; tousled for the boys, and wispy for those whose boyhoods were long ago.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2022
Calipari gushed about Krzyzewski’s triumphs with the national team, and the coaches bonded over their Catholic-influenced boyhoods and their affinity for legendary coaches.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2017
The Bradford of their boyhoods had clean sidewalks and flowers in the alley.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2017
When Guests Seaver and Kotto began going on about their California boyhoods, he peremptorily cut them dead with "I'm glad we found that out."
From Time Magazine Archive
Their education complemented their uniquely American facility with machines and technology, for they had spent their boyhoods surrounded by mechanical gadgetry: farm machines, radios, and cars.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
