boylike

Example Sentences

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Its lure is the image of girls kicking ass, being boylike.

From Time Magazine Archive

His scientific interest in his illness was enormous�even though, boylike, he had a personal pride in the misfortune that had suddenly made him special.

From Time Magazine Archive

As he spoke, he gathered Flea's black curls into his fingers and cut them off boylike to her head.

From From the Valley of the Missing by White, Grace Miller

With the passing of the years, many changes have occurred to sunder the friendships formed during those boylike expeditions.

From Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain by Rees, Alfred Wellesley

His imagination, boylike, was aghast at the unknown.

From The Varmint by Gruger, Frederic Rodrigo