Sentence examples for a boy of a from inspiring English sources

She's talking to a boy of a similar age, who is wearing an ill-fitting suit.

WHEN a boy of a certain age asks Cozy Friedman, the owner of Cozy's Cuts for Kids in Manhattan, for a haircut with long, side-combed bangs, she is careful not to ask, "like Justin Bieber's?" 'Tween girls have been shrieking their appreciation for the 16-year-old pop star's hair for the last year or so, and now boys are (subtly) requesting the style in droves.

There, Jaffy encounters Tim, a boy of a similar age, who has a pretty twin sister.

One afternoon a boy of a similar age who lived a few doors up from us came round to play.

Joseph Hergesheimer wrote in his introduction to the 1925 Knopf edition of the novel that, at its heart, The Red Badge of Courage was a "story of the birth, in a boy, of a knowledge of himself and of self-command".

He dreamed, as a boy, of becoming a fashion designer.

Last year a science teacher suspected a boy of cheating on a test.

She was put in charge of the Qaddafis' two children, a boy of six and a girl of three.

He visited the Garden the first time as a boy of 13, a member of an Ethical Culture School nature class.

When he was a boy of 11, a Muslim day-labourer ran, bleeding, into the family garden.

A father and his son, a boy of twelve or so, go into a wood.