BOYISH in a Sentence

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37 example sentences for BOYISH, such as:

1. I was a boyish husband as to years.
2. This girl likes to have her hair cut in a boyish style.
3. My dear Dorian, you have the most curiously boyish moods.
4. I was circumventing Kurtz as though it had been a boyish game.
5. He stamped his foot upon the ground in his boyish insolent manner.

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 Meanings and Examples of BOYISH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
boyish
 a.  befitting or characteristic of a young boy
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  His heart was now open to Elinor, all its weaknesses, all its errors confessed, and his first boyish attachment to Lucy treated with all the philosophic dignity of twenty-four.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49
2  In our boyish want of discretion I dare say we took too much to drink, and I know we talked too much.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVI
3  I made the admission with reluctance, for it seemed to have a boyish look, and she already treated me more than enough like a boy.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIX
4  So powerful were these visionary considerations in my boyish mind, that I seem, according to my present way of thinking, to have left school without natural regret.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
5  I entreated Agnes not to regard this as a thoughtless passion which could ever yield to any other, or had the least resemblance to the boyish fancies that we used to joke about.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. MY AUNT ASTONISHES ME
6  I was a boyish husband as to years.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING
7  His pretty, boyish face, with a twist of fresh grass bound round his hair, was all working with effort; but whenever anyone looked at him he smiled.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 5
8  For some time he had felt the slight change in his house; and those changes in what he had deemed unchangeable were so many slight shocks to his boyish conception of the world.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
9  A beardless, boyish face, very fair, no features to speak of, nose peeling, little blue eyes, smiles and frowns chasing each other over that open countenance like sunshine and shadow on a windswept plain.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
10  I was circumventing Kurtz as though it had been a boyish game.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
11  Once, in boyish mockery of Narcissus, he had kissed, or feigned to kiss, those painted lips that now smiled so cruelly at him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
12  He recalled the stainless purity of his boyish life, and it seemed horrible to him that it was here the fatal portrait was to be hidden away.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
13  He stamped his foot upon the ground in his boyish insolent manner.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
14  My dear Dorian, you have the most curiously boyish moods.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
15  You are old enough to leave off boyish tricks, and to behave better, Josephine.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ONE
Example Sentence:
1  The headmaster could not regard this latest escapade as a boyish joke and expelled the young man.
2  This girl likes to have her hair cut in a boyish style.