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  • noun Plural form of boyhood.

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Examples

  • It was too difficult to reconcile what had happened during the boyhoods of these young men with any sort of spiritual organization.

    The Sins of Brother Curtis Lisa Davis 2011

  • We knew each other from our teenage boyhoods; even though we weren't close and didn't talk in later years, what we went through together made us like family.

    The Eternal Teenager in Love Steve Dougherty 2012

  • It was too difficult to reconcile what had happened during the boyhoods of these young men with any sort of spiritual organization.

    The Sins of Brother Curtis Lisa Davis 2011

  • They are growing up to be their own persons, in their own ways, having their own particular all-American boyhoods, which they seem to think have been pretty good so far.

    When having a hobby was my hobby 2009

  • They are growing up to be their own persons, in their own ways, having their own particular all-American boyhoods, which they seem to think have been pretty good so far.

    Lance Mannion: 2009

  • The two men had known each other since their boyhoods in Amsterdam.

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • The two men had known each other since their boyhoods in Amsterdam.

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • THEY BOTH ROSE FROM HUMBLE, small-town boyhoods to achieve extraordinary success.

    From The Glass House To The White House 2008

  • Love fails them because they expect women to heal the wounds of their boyhoods, and that can come only from other men.

    Drums, Sweat And Tears 2008

  • I mean, I though Jack Valenti's Boston Strangler testimony was over the top, but clearly, Jack took his cues from Sousa et al. Thirty-odd years later, the another group of pirates -- radio broadcasters, who refused to pay royalties for the music they file-shared over the airwaves -- violated Godwin's Law decades before it was formulated, comparing the entrenched rights societies that served the recording industry (the pirates of their boyhoods) to Adolf Hitler.

    Boing Boing: May 9, 2004 - May 15, 2004 Archives 2004

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