Sentence examples for promising boy from inspiring English sources

Thorfinn must have been given his nickname, Karlsefni, at an early age, since it means "promising boy".

Billy attempts suicide as well, and is institutionalized for a decade before he returns to town, a sorrowful shell of the promising boy he once was.

The death of the Palmers' infant daughter was followed by that of their elder son, a promising boy of whom much was expected.

But while a mother's love is expected to be blind, others in this neighborhood ask the same thing, how a seemingly good and promising boy, who was never in trouble, could do this.

The hard part is explaining how Patrick Willis got from here to there with the help of two very different fathers, whose worlds intersected at the crossroads of a promising boy's life.

The program emphasizes exacting classical training — no coddling— to promising boys who know they want to study ballet.

His father's court connections guaranteed the young Raphael access to the lively intellectual and artistic life of the palace, and the humanist education fostered by the ducal school, where promising boys from poor families were admitted free.

Child marriage in its real sense was prevalent – a distressing aspect of Indian life to the country's social reformers and not least to Gandhi himself, who in 1926 wrote that it was "sapping the vitality of thousands of our promising boys and girls … [by] bringing into existence every year thousands of weaklings … who are born of immature parenthood".

Poppy and Bar are promising their Boy they will not go back to Jeb, their first choice to run for president, no matter what happens in South Carolina.

For Kevin Yee, member of a once-promising boy band, failure felt like "the deepest punch in the gut".

Marysol and Sri decided to go to a hotel that night, promising the boys movies and treats.