Sentence examples for quite a boy from inspiring English sources

"He's quite a boy," she wrote, and congratulated Fitzgerald on his forthcoming marriage to Zelda Sayre.

Earl Cave, brief as his appearance in the film may be, is quite a boy; no doubt his brother Arthur was too.

Perfectly suggesting someone not quite a man and not quite a boy, his absolutely misery and despair, all the time underlined by a manic playfulness, part madness, part panic.

It will be refreshing to see the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up played by an actual (not-quite-a) boy: Adam Chanler-Berat, who plays Henry in the Broadway musical "Next to Normal," will jump into the role of Peter after that show closes on Jan . 16

It is, she admits, "quite a boys' piece".

This story - as most of you will already know - is quite simple: a boy sees a man die at Orly airport, Paris.

The brainy 6ft1 shot stopper claims he picked up the Greek language in just under two years and at 14-years-old started playing for his local village football team – where he was quite literally a boy against 30-year-old men.

At that time, Rina had a short haircut and looked quite like a boy.

To his mother Lesley-Anne he was "not particularly outgoing and quite a home boy".

I'm thinking of a specific one but I can't possibly say... it involved quite a young boy!

I played Hippolytus, who is supposed to be a ravishingly beautiful young man; but by the time we were reviewed, I'd become quite a large boy.