boylike

Example Sentences

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His scientific interest in his illness was enormous�even though, boylike, he had a personal pride in the misfortune that had suddenly made him special.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its lure is the image of girls kicking ass, being boylike.

From Time Magazine Archive

With the passing of the years, many changes have occurred to sunder the friendships formed during those boylike expeditions.

From Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain by Rees, Alfred Wellesley

So it was arranged he was to start next Monday night, and, to Mrs. Anderson, the time, until then, seemed altogether too short, though, boylike, Roger thought the intervening days would never pass.

From The White Crystals Being an Account of the Adventures of Two Boys by Garis, Howard Roger

That maltreated pillow was so funny and boylike.

From I've Married Marjorie by Widdemer, Margaret