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Example sentences for "that boy"

  • He knew his power, that boy; and he stepped forward to his stand when he pleased, certain that he would be forgiven as soon as he began to sing.

  • If John saw a boy who did not come to the evening meeting, but was wandering off with his sling down the meadow, looking for frogs, maybe, that boy seemed to him a monster of wickedness.

  • Before the great war with the British brother (1812) that boy's father struck down to the earth a pale-face who had done him wrong.

  • That boy Abe--the one that we prophesied about!

  • That boy is good to his mother, but he all runs to books and larnin', just as some turnips all run to tops.

  • My soul has set its mark on that boy: wait, and we will see if the voice within me speaks true.

  • She never could help an appraising eye and touch in the matter of her niece, who would have to be married, of course--though not to that boy Jon.

  • All the way down to Reading he debated whether he should tell Fleur of that boy's father's death.

  • That boy didn't understand what I said about art, but he is an artist just the same!

  • I will talk straight to that boy," he declared, laughing.

  • Mighty little of old Maybe-Not in that boy," he would shout to the loafers in the store.

  • They see that you are fond of that boy Fillup, and certainly it does you credit, because you ain't married and you ain't got no children of your own, Aaron.

  • That boy wouldn't dream of taking no money from the cash drawer, Mr. Rothman, without he would tell me all about it afterward.

  • That boy ain't going to fool away his time here, Sam, and don't you forget it.

  • Single entry and double entry, he could do it like nothing, and neat--that boy is neat like a pin.

  • That boy will do great things--he has as clear a head as I ever knew.

  • He's the king of all the glue- fingers, that boy is.

  • You see, Davy, that boy's sure jealous of you yet.

  • Yes, indeed--that boy looking at the waves rolling in!

  • The Skipper does not wait for that boy," he said.

  • No merman could so belong of right to the sea as that boy.

  • The filthy reality of death stood before me, upon the grave of that boy.

  • That boy, whose head had been hung and eyes downcast, lifted his head and raised his eyes and gave one look into the eyes of that suppliant for him that sat above him.

  • That boy's got a mark on him that genius has.

  • He used to say, "Rosalie, that boy's going to make a name for himself in the world.

  • Before you gib em that boy whisky, he close up dead-finish.

  • That boy wouldn't poison Jimmy because he no shout," I reasoned.

  • That boy put up a fight like a welter-weight cinnamon bear; but, at last, we got him down in the bottom of the buggy and drove away.

  • Why, that boy's got money, Jools; more money than religion, I reckon.

  • Yes, sir, that boy seemed to be having the time of his life.

  • George Brotherton, that boy is more than life to me.

  • There is Mary Sands's heart in that boy, and Daniel has bred nothing into him.

  • That boy's always wool-gathering instead of thinking of his duties.

  • Is that boy to do just as he pleases here?

  • You go on, and see to that boy," he continued, as he drew himself into a sitting position.

  • If those pants had been made for that boy, then since that time there had been a great growth in that boy or a great shrinkage in the pants.

  • His father's got to go, and who is to take care of that boy?

  • He was introduced to me by an intimate friend of that boy," indicating Grant.

  • That boy of the minister's must be plaguey smart.

  • That boy opened my bureau drawer, and stole the bonds.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "that 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 evil; little cinnamon; said the old man; that all; that church; that city; that date; that day; that for; that girl; that house; that letter; that light; that manner; that name; that not; that nothing; that now; that our; that part; that room; that should; that sort; that though; that way; voice from