How to Use boy wonder in a Sentence

boy wonder

noun
  • Therefore, there could be some growing pains for the boy wonder.
    — Dallas News, 9 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • Rory McIlroy The boy wonder became the man in golf this decade.
    — Steve Dimeglio, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Suddenly changing conditions led to confusion and made the boys wonder if they were lost.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2018
  • Why, the boy wonders, is his father always so eager to go riding with Zinaida?
    — Dan Hofstadter, WSJ, 25 May 2018
  • And like the Argentines, Yamal caught the world’s attention as a boy wonder.
    — Scott M. Reid, Oc Register, 10 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Local boy wonder Andre Fu has designed a calming atmosphere with Bedonia stone, bamboo, and shoji glass.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
  • At the heart of the tangle of conflicting claims sits the relationship between an American tech boy wonder and an older Russian tycoon.
    — Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Technically, the French boy wonder Jacques Henri Lartigue, who took his first picture at the age of seven, beat him by a couple of years.
    — Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Stearns was Cohen’s white whale, a boy wonder who turned the team in the league’s smallest market, Milwaukee, into a perennial contender on a shoestring budget.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Despite his unassuming origins, Tallahassee’s boy wonder has come to believe that stardom is, if not the highest good, then definitely a worthy pursuit.
    — M.t. Richards, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The media was eager to anoint him as a new boy wonder who was pulling folk music into the future via hip-hop and indie rock, or a new Bob Dylan who was different from all the new Dylans who had come before.
    — Al Shipley, SPIN, 29 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Williams manages a staff of approximately 450 and is likely not mired in the daily minutiae of the prosecution of crypto’s former boy wonder, two former Southern District attorneys told Fortune.
    — Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 29 Sep. 2023
  • After the show, I was taken aside by John Skipper, who had spent most of the conference proudly parading data boy wonder Nate Silver around as ESPN’s splashy new acquisition.
    — Roger Bennett, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2026

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