Boyish Sentence Examples

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  • He records how it was burnt into him by pictures which filled his boyish imagination.

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  • Something in his innocent boyish smile and the way he moved - so deliberate, even graceful.

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  • He's simply too boyish to conjure any sort of heroic authority.

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  • The illiterate brigand, whose boyish ambition had not looked beyond the recovery of his father's beylick, was now established as one of the most powerful viziers under the Ottoman government.

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  • An almost boyish enthusiasm for some new discovery leaves what is being said in the poem unfocused.

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  • Winston, who has seemed so boyish recently suddenly seemed sleepy and old.

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  • Pointer from the Netherlands is another new European addition this season and it is very boyish indeed.

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  • No-one has to ask me questions, like why I look so boyish, and don't I ever like wearing a dress?

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  • I noticed it myself, " cried the young duke, pushing his boyish face into the inmost ring.

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  • In 1749 his voice broke, and the director, Georg von Reutter, took the occasion of a boyish escapade to turn him into the streets.

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  • As a boy he was active, lively and docile; a good walker, but ignorant of all boyish games, as naïf and as innocent as a child; and he never could learn to dance or to ride.

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  • The "tranquil bay" is Casco Bay, one of the most beautiful in the world, studded with bold, green islands, well fitted to be the Hesperides of a poet's boyish dreams. At the age of fifteen Longfellow entered Bowdoin College at Brunswick, a town situated near the romantic falls of the Androscoggin river, about 25 m.

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  • Creating unisex themes ensures that a room isn't too "girly" or "boyish" for siblings.

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  • The role proved to be a huge departure from his boyish portrayal of Harry Potter, and he received favorable reviews for his performance.

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  • With his soulful eyes, earnest expressions and boyish voice, Jake is able to poignantly display a range of emotions, taking moviegoers on emotional roller coasters.

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  • His individuality, whether it be suave or rugged, boyish or mature, is intact both when he is at work and on the weekends.

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  • The 16-year old Canadian pop sensation has young girls drooling over his boyish good looks.

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  • Justin has the perfect blend of polished yet boyish hair, which is exactly why his cut became so coveted to begin with.

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  • While the look is certainly sporty, it does nothing to enhance her gold, sun-kissed complexion and, in fact, makes her figure look slightly boyish.

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  • There was a time when only Twiggy look-alike stick figures and girls with lanky, boyish frames could don a bikini on the beach.

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  • Women's bandeau swimsuits are a great choice for women with small chests and boyish frames.

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  • Celebrate your womanly figure in party dresses for misses, whether you're an hourglass, pear, apple, or have a boyish figure.

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  • That means the girl needs to take the time to figure out what makes her guy smile, what brings that boyish joy and delight into his eyes.

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  • Coco's boyish and boxy styles, notably the signature 1925 cardigan jacked and the 1926 little black dress, are hallmarks for the brand.

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  • The two main components that make a quilt look more "boyish" are the color and pattern.

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  • By the mid-1920s, the flapper look was in full swing. 1920s women's fashions were straight, loose and emphasized a boyish silhouette.

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  • In the 1920s, corsets changed to flatten the breasts and de-emphasize curves, creating a boyish slim figure.

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  • They're flattering to all body types, from the boyish figured girls who wish they had curves, to the women who'd gladly give up a few bumps and curves for a bit more definition.

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  • These iron contraptions trimmed the waist and concealed the chest, giving women boyish figures.

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  • Along with the short bobs and flapper dresses, Flapper Girls popularized boyish physiques.

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  • After the boyish shapes of the 20s, the 1930s took us full-circle -- and full-figured.

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  • A bit of molding, or slight padding in the bra will add curves to a boyish figure, and a thong will add a bit of spice.

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  • Avoid hair cuts that make you look boyish or too trendy.

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  • Slender women with boyish figures look carefree and sexy in this style.

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  • His boyish good looks appealed to young fans and Ray J was able to parlay his TV success to muted fame in the music industry.

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  • The running joke about Chad is that he sold his soul to the devil in order to maintain his youthful appearance, but there is much more to him than his boyish good looks.

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  • Montgomery played the earnest Ensign with unrestrained charm and boyish good looks.

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  • According to the story, during the ploughing of a field near Tarquinii a being of boyish appearance sprang out of the furrow.

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  • The followers of his creed, amongst whom there are many wealthy merchants and bankers, direct their worship chiefly to Gopal Lal, the boyish Krishna of Vrindavana, whose image is sedulously attended like a revered living person eight times a day - from its early rising from its couch up to its retiring to repose at night.

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  • Nadir then visited the strong fortress of Kelat, to which he was greatly attached as the scene of his boyish exploits, and Meshed, which he constituted the capital of his empire.

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  • There was little art or inspiration in his boyish verse, but in his nineteenth year an older sister thought a specimen of it good enough for submission to the Free Press, a weekly paper which William Lloyd Garrison, the future emancipationist, had started in the town of Newburyport.

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  • Murray could not publish Aylmer Papillon, but he had great hopes of its boyish writer (Isaac D'Israeli was an old friend of his), "took him into his confidence, and related to him his experiences of men and affairs."

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  • However, whereas suits had traditionally been broad-shouldered, they were now cut to give men a more slim, boyish look.

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  • If you have a boyish figure, you'll love the illusion of curves the monokini can provide.

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  • While all women were keeping their curves hidden with the help of the outerwear and flattening corsets, flappers sought to have positively boyish flat chests.

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  • This straight shape may often be described as boyish.

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  • Whether you're top heavy, bottom heavy, full-figured or have a boyish figure, knowing which styles look best on your body type can help you look your best all the time.

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  • If you have a boyish shape, the fitted bodice with an empire waist and flowing skirt of any length will give the illusion of more pronounced curves.

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  • Nor is the sincerity of the Catholicism he professed in these boyish days in any way discredited by the fact of his subsequent lack of religion.

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  • Thus his " studious and sedentary life " passed pleasantly enough, interrupted only at rare intervals by boyish excursions of a day or a week in the neighbourhood, and by at least one memorable tour of Switzerland, by Basel, Zurich, Lucerne and Bern, made along with Pavilliard in the autumn of 1755.

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  • We must not forget that these boyish demerits belong to the work of a man of thirty-five whose claims and aspirations already purported to dwarf the whole record of the classics.

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  • He was a studious and precocious boy, more interested in religious matters, history and foreign politics than in boyish things.

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  • With the remains of his army Wallace found refuge for the night in the Torwood - known to him from his boyish life at Dunipace.

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  • Kingsley's life was written by his widow in 1877, entitled Charles Kingsley, his Letters and Memories of his Life, and presents a very touching and beautiful picture of her husband, but perhaps hardly does justice to his humour, his wit, his overflowing vitality and boyish fun.

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  • The Apollo Sauroctonus (after Praxiteles), copied in bronze at the Villa Albani in Rome and in marble at Paris, is a naked, youthful, almost boyish figure, leaning against a tree, waiting to strike a lizard climbing up the trunk.

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  • The great orators of all times were a special object of study with him, and he describes his boyish pedantry pleasantly enough, but by no means without a touch of self-satisfaction in the memory.

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  • As a boy he was active, lively and docile; a good walker, but ignorant of all boyish games, as naïf and as innocent as a child; and he never could learn to dance or to ride.

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