Sentence examples similar to formative years at school from inspiring English sources

He talks repeatedly of being an outsider, on the Bristol estate where he spent his formative years, at schools where he used humour as a defence mechanism, and even in the cut-throat world of stand-up.

Wearing starch white shirts with his slick hair combed in a neat side-part, he was downright chummy at his Senate confirmation hearings while discussing his "formative" years at Georgetown Prep, the fancy school he passed through before going to Yale and then Yale Law.

(Mr. Walcott's own children attended public high schools but spent their formative years at the Allen Christian School in Queens. The school was founded by the Rev. Floyd Flake, a former congressman and Mr. Walcott's longtime friend).

She spent her formative years at a famous English girls' boarding school.

"Most players will have a series of different coaches throughout their formative years at a club.

Local lad Eric Burdon spent some of his formative years at the Downbeat and the New Orleans Jazz Club.

Having spent his formative years at work in a second-hand bookshop, he is fiction's answer to Quentin Tarantino.

Fred Wilpon, father and chairman, comes by his nostalgia honestly, having spent his formative years at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.

Mr. Geithner spent most of his childhood in Africa and Asia, with several formative years at the American Embassy School in India's capital.

Both spent formative years at Harvard University and have two kids.

Ronaldo was dubbed a diver in his formative years at Manchester United but his brilliance took the focus off it.