How to Use boy wonder in a Sentence

boy wonder

noun

• Rory McIlroy The boy wonder became the man in golf this decade.
  — Steve Dimeglio, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2019
• By rights, the boy wonder should sound betrayed when Bat-dad's antics land them both in super-prison.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2022
• During the late 1990s dot-com era, Polis earned a reputation as a boy wonder.
  — Ellis Simani, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2021
• At the time, the Nigerian was a veritable boy wonder for his Norwegian side Lyn Oslo.
  — SI.com, 4 June 2018
• Why, the boy wonders, is his father always so eager to go riding with Zinaida?
  — Dan Hofstadter, WSJ, 25 May 2018
• In 2014, legendary producer Quincy Jones caught wind of the boy wonder and signed him to his management company.
  — Andrea Cuttler, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Oct. 2021
• Suddenly changing conditions led to confusion and made the boys wonder if they were lost.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2018
• The former boy wonder quarterback Kedon Slovis continued to regress, throwing a pick-six in the third quarter, then the Trojans just quit.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2021
• This despite the arrival of Tom Herman, the boy wonder, offensive genius, Urban Meyer clone who has come in with both guns ablaze in recruiting.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2017
• And in the education of Matthew Continetti—his time as a boy wonder for the conservative establishment, the shock of 2016, and his years of semi-exile—there are important lessons for the rest of us.
  — Timothy Shenk, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2022
• The stock market was displeased, and Alex wondered whether the 46-year-old boy wonder is becoming more liability than asset.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 4 May 2018
• That five year gap between Thanos' snap and the blip also means there are some students who were kiddos when Spidey first disappeared, and are now high school seniors, which throws some new classmates into the mix for our boy wonder from Queens.
  — Kelsea Stahler, refinery29.com, 5 July 2019
• Fresh from his own electoral success, Sebastian Kurz, the boy wonder of Austrian conservatism, opens coalition talks with a far-right party that harbours former neo-Nazis in its ranks.
  — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
• Local boy wonder Andre Fu has designed a calming atmosphere with Bedonia stone, bamboo, and shoji glass.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
• Farrow was a boy wonder even before getting into journalism.
  — Washington Post, 14 May 2018
• His career rejuvenated by The Visit and especially Split, the former boy wonder seemed to have successfully completed an unlikely Lazarus act.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 26 July 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024