Sentence examples for boy to adulthood from inspiring English sources

He was my mentor from wayward boy to adulthood.

When a woman puts her adoptive son on a plane to Moscow C.O.D.? Or when a family finds, nurtures and raises a beautiful boy to early adulthood?

Ten Chen siblings — five girls, five boys — lived to adulthood, and all of them graduated from college.

And the boy, who grew to adulthood under the name Matthew Propp, might never have learned the truth of his identity had he not applied for a job as a police officer.

Boyhood, which charts a young boy's passage to adulthood and took 12 years to make, was crowned best picture last week by the New York Film Critics Circle.

Mr. Graham said that if the family court determined that Elian should be with his father in Cuba -- and the prevailing presumption in the United States is that a child generally belongs with a biological parent -- he and the vice president would support returning the boy to Cuba until he reached adulthood.

More times than I can count I have been among the group filing outside to watch the birthday boy chug his way to adulthood.

Novices once spent months in a monastery as part of what was considered an essential step for boys along the way to adulthood.

Told in three acts, it tells the tender story of Chiron, a Liberty City boy who progresses from childhood to adulthood almost silently, the depth of his heart revealing itself, constantly and unmistakably, on his face.

Knowles sheds light on the boys' complex friendship, the ascent from adolescence to adulthood and the reader's sense of humanity.

A mother with older kids once said to me that boys are such risk-takers, it's amazing any survive to adulthood.