Sentence examples for a kid raised from inspiring English sources

But, to a kid raised in a Victorian cottage outside Edinburgh, mock Tudor houses seemed exotically English.

It still felt like downtown, and for a kid raised in the suburb known as the Upper East Side, there was nothing more I wanted from a neighborhood.

Five years ago, as another wayward American in Paris (by way of Kansas City), he milked the Gay Paree theme for all it was worth, and always from the angle of a kid raised on corn.

ABDU A. MALAHI Formality With Warmth Growing up, Abdu A. Malahi struggled to combine the traditions and culture of his native Yemen with the swagger of a kid raised in Brooklyn, one who loved Prince and played the keyboard in a makeshift band.

To a kid raised on Ghandian entertainment and forbidden from all virtual things Call of Duty, the big screen offered a more exciting scene tonight: Masked and shielded warriors!

As a kid raised just as much by websites like eBaum's World and Albino Blacksheep as I was my parents, I was obsessed with the "Stickdeath" genre of Flash animation featuring elaborate and gruesome fight scenes enacted by armies of multicolored stick figures.

Not an unusual dream, perhaps, for a funny kid raised on the Upper West Side, a mile and a half from the "Saturday Night Live" studios, although few would have pursued it with Peele's single-minded persistence.

He was a smart kid raised in a middle-class family in Urbana, Ill.; his mother was an English teacher and his father a professor of philosophy.

That story includes the standard humble beginnings for a talented kid raised in a family of modest means — in John's case, growing up in Pinner, Middlesex, England as Reginald Kenneth Dwight.

Our occasional visits were an exotic treat for a suburban kid raised on steak and pasta.

Food Wars follows Soma Yukihira, an arrogant kid raised in a diner, who transfers into the most competitive culinary school in Japan.