Sentence examples for I was boy from inspiring English sources

Idiom

Boys will be boys.

Boys will be boys means that boys, or men, will behave in certain ways, often noisily or irresponsibily.

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Beware of articles beginning: "When I was boy......

"I spent my life up till I was 14 just wishing I was boy," she recalls.

"Seven years ago I was Boy Wonder in New York and last year I was just the opposite," Nolan said.

When I was boy and used to play club and school football, the matches seldom attracted much noise from the sidelines; very few parents bothered to turn up.

When I was boy in the 1950's and 1960's, he was always called "dignified" by the white press — even when they snubbed him.

I was Boy Scout age, the age when such jeers get jeered, and I had to think hard to figure out what this kid meant.

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I was boy-crazy, always fighting my mom, then this would come on and we'd forget, and start to sing.

I was a Boy Scout.

I was that boy!

Of course, I was a boy then.

"I was that boy," he says.

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