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Example sentences for "small boy"

  • Two men were fast, and there were left only two men besides Stimson and myself, and a small boy of ten or twelve years of age; and Stimson and I would not have joined the men in a mutiny, as they knew.

  • Marsh; professed to have been at sea from a small boy, and to have served his time in the smuggling trade between Germany and the coasts of France and England.

  • The two best men were fast, and there were only two beside myself, and a small boy of ten or twelve years of age.

  • At the far end of the room, in a deep window, a small boy, with a dog and a cat, was playing at being on a raft.

  • Duncan was very sorry as a small boy that he had left heaven and come to stay with us.

  • On the wall that separated it from the next garden a small boy and a dog were seated.

  • As a small boy he had read that with a certain inevitable detachment.

  • When Dion arrived at the gymnasium, Jenkins was giving a lesson to a small boy of perhaps twelve years old, whose mother was looking eagerly on.

  • And if some day he should sit in the place of his mother, and should hear a small boy, his small boy, conjugating.

  • Scott certainly took his fairy folk seriously, and the Mauth Dog was rather a disagreeable companion to a small boy in wakeful hours.

  • This seems a queer idea for a small boy, but it must be confessed.

  • The case of destructive cruelty, as when a small boy crushes a fly, is somewhat different.

  • Mother," asked a small boy of four, "why is there such a lot of things in the world if no one knows all these things?

  • A small boy of three years and nine months on receiving from his nurse the familiar order, "Come here!

  • My last sight of Bentford was a yellow dog squirming and barking in a small boy's arms.

  • Is her husband dead, and has she got a small boy?

  • In two weeks we had a piece of land, nicely ploughed and harrowed, divided into more than twenty little squares, and in each square you could see of an afternoon a small boy toiling.

  • And the first person he ran up against was a small boy, his hands full of little wads of paper bundles, crammed tightly together in his nervous fists.

  • Now he understood that he was a small boy, with whom everybody could do as he pleased, and that he was speeding in spite, of his will on a camel merely because that camel was driven from behind by a half-savage Sudânese.

  • But the Mahdi always desired that the fame of his mercy should spread not only among the dervishes but over the whole world; therefore he thought that a too severe sentence, particularly upon a small boy, might injure that fame.

  • A small boy sneaked up and tried to sell some contraband tobacco; but Jan had just bought "State.

  • Mike was not to be found, but the missing horse was discovered by a small boy in the dry river-bed apparently in search of water.

  • In the street a small boy urged us to go to "Radoikovitches," but we went to the hotel.

  • Down in front, close to the platform, sat a small boy, his eyes fixed on the young Indian who wore the scarlet feather.

  • The story got around that when he was a small boy he had one day escaped from his nurse and run off into some dense woods near his father's house.

  • As a small boy he had been unusually big and strong for his age, and had always delighted in any kind of contest of strength.

  • The world acknowledged Mozart's genius from the time when, a small boy of six, he and his sister played the clavier.

  • It is not usual to see a small boy of four alone in a London square, but Bim met, at first, no one except a messenger boy, who stopped and looked after him.

  • I was here during several years, as a small boy, with Canon Lasher--in my holidays, you know.

  • She heard behind her cries; she saw in front of her the almond tree, and then coming swiftly towards her a small boy with a hoop.

  • It was the voice of a small boy, its weak treble broken by that preternatural hoarseness which only vagabondage and the habit of premature self-assertion can give.

  • It was the face of a small boy, a face that might have been pretty and even refined but that it was darkened by evil knowledge from within, and by dirt and hard experience from without.

  • She was far too troubled to notice that she was followed by two guardian angels in the shape of a small boy and a brindled bull-terrier.

  • A hundred yards further on he heard yells and screams, and shouts of laughter; and coming round a corner, he saw a small boy rolling in recurring paroxysms of joy on the grass by the roadside, watched by a puzzled bull-terrier.

  • A tinker is but a gritty sight, and Hildebrand Anne had grown up, to the eye, an angel child, of a cleanliness uncanny in a small boy.

  • In the middle of the plat, standing a few inches below the surface, was a small boy, and in his hands a very large spade.

  • The hunt of a "rustler" appealed to them as a circus does to a small boy, as the prospect of a football game does to a college student.

  • Out of doors, in the warm sunny plat south of the barn, a small boy and a still smaller girl were engaged in the fascinating occupation of becoming acquainted.

  • A minute more and the door through which he had passed opened slowly, and the figure of a small boy, wrapped like an Indian in a big blanket, stepped timidly inside and stood blinking in the light.

  • When a small boy, he used to go out by himself.

  • Norwanchakus went in and said, "You are a small boy, but will you try your rope for me?

  • At this time Tsuwalkai Marimi, an old woman, had reared a small boy.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small boy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great courage; little breathlessly; small army; small bunch; small cottage; small creek; small degree; small flat; small flock; small glass; small handful; small letters; small measure; small nations; small notes; small number; small octavo; small onion; small pieces; small pinch; small point; small rock; small saucepan; small species; small telescope; wings and tail blackish