Sentence examples for mere boys from inspiring English sources

I served under three similar swaggering principals, mere boys.

Indeed, Conan Doyle frequently bemoaned his fate at being considered a writer of mere "boys' books" — he'd meant to write for adults and was chagrined to find his stories frequently reviewed among the teenage adventures of the day.

These were mere boys, baby-faced Italian teenagers calling themselves Il Volo and belting the red-sauce favorite "O Sole Mio" in front of projections of stained-glass windows.

In "Bonfire of the Vanities," the 1987 novel that would become the canonical chronicle of Wall Street's era of excess, Tom Wolfe described the financial sector as a gilded playpen where "mere boys, with smooth jawlines and clean arteries, boys still able to blush, were buying three-million-dollar apartments on Park and Fifth".

Some of those men, aren't men at all -- mere boys who will never have the opportunity to become men.

He lost his life, alongside literally thousands of others that day in Belgium, in 1915, when seemingly endless tides of brave yet unimaginably terrified young men and mere boys rising from the trenches to be caught in barbed wire and machine gun fire.

"He is a mere boy," he said.

Like his father, Alexis came to the throne a mere boy.

Called up for service in World War I, he is rejected because, of course, he looks like a mere boy.

He was a mere boy amongst men at that stage, but his poise and class stood out from the beginning.

Your tentative steps as Connor are taken when he's a mere boy, but time lapses to focus on key moments as he matures and discovers his heritage.