How to Use boyfriend in a Sentence

boyfriend

noun
  • My boyfriend and I have only been dating for a couple of months.
  • Hoover was with her boyfriend at the time, who is Wampanoag.
    Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The boyfriend was the owner of the Chrysler 300 and lived in that apartment building.
    Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 3 June 2023
  • My boyfriend is a troller; most of my friends here are trollers.
    Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2023
  • Chapin, Kernodle's boyfriend, lived across the street and was spending the night.
    Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The call was then dropped, and her boyfriend, who was in the United States, was not able to reach her again.
    Greg Norman, Fox News, 15 June 2023
  • Julia Aoun drove up from Long Beach to catch the show with her boyfriend, who is a fan of the bands.
    Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2024
  • All of the boyfriends standing with their arms crossed are singing along to every word.
    Vulture, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Pair these boots with a great boyfriend jean or midi skirt.
    Nneya Richards, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Madison co-wrote the song with boyfriend Blake Richardson.
    Chris Eggertsen, Billboard, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Amber had a new job, a new boyfriend, a new way of looking at her life.
    The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
  • My siblings have boyfriends and girlfriends, and get to go places.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
  • More from Carolyn Hax From the archive: Best friend, meet my new boyfriend.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The woman's boyfriend arrived at the restaurant and saw Mahomes in the office with her.
    Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 15 May 2023
  • The invitation came to her boyfriend at college and was addressed to the two of them.
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
  • No one paired off or hooked up; Rebecca had a boyfriend back home, and anyway that wasn’t the point.
    Polly Stewart, Good Housekeeping, 11 July 2023
  • In April, news broke that Swift had split up with longtime boyfriend Joe Alwyn.
    Vulture, 3 June 2023
  • The only way to the other side of your uncertainty is to name it with your boyfriend.
    Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Halle Bailey graced the red carpet with her longtime boyfriend DDG in tow.
    Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 2 Feb. 2024
  • She had been strangled; her boyfriend was charged with murder.
    Andy Newman, New York Times, 7 May 2023
  • Jin has a boyfriend, Raj (Saamer Usmani), who isn’t part of the gang, but as a naval officer will have a part to play in the drama.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • On Tuesday, Ricardo says Oriya's boyfriend drove to the site of the festival to search the area of her last cellphone ping.
    Anna Schecter, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The former boyfriend, Kevin Eastman, later killed the woman, Heather Frank.
    Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • On April 12, however, Swift opted for a night out with her boyfriend.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 13 Apr. 2024
  • The boyfriend told police the two had argued and Tutor had left their nearby motel room.
    Ron Wood, arkansasonline.com, 2 Apr. 2024
  • As the story goes, the famed actor had still been grieving her late boyfriend, John Cazale, who died of cancer in the spring of that year.
    Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Two years later, when Barbie gets a boyfriend, it's just named after her son.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 July 2023
  • That night, the 25-year-old had been driving her boyfriend’s car in Southeast Washington.
    Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The Grammy-winning singer is attending the match to support boyfriend and Chiefs tight end, Travis Kelce.
    Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Sofia had plans with her boyfriend, Austin Parrow, to go to the outlets at Foxwoods Casino in the afternoon.
    Caitlin Flynn, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2023

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