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How to use formative years in a sentence

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Mandy's formative years were spent in the velds and forests of the Northern Transvaal collecting shongololos and pulling the wings off insects.
Richard E Grant's directorial debut is a semi-autobiographical account of his formative years in 1960s Swaziland.
Some of them, indeed, may have spent their formative years bobbing in America's yacht basins.
Many experience ostracism from their own families during formative years, with deep emotional scars resulting.
They ventured into sports much later in their life, having spent most of their formative years ruing their misfortune.
The Prinsendam was constructed in the formative years of atrium development, and features a unique stacked atrium design.
Earlier, he would boast of his formative years stealing candy from kids in war-torn Africa.
Are your most formative years those of your early childhood or your early teens?
As a whole, the show provided insight into the formative years of artists now known for wholly different notions of what painting might be.
People owe a good deal to their parents and to their early formative years.
I spent my formative years in New Malden, during which time I learned to ride a bicycle, a motor cycle and finally drive a car.
Booth's formative years were spent in Calgary where he built up a background in more left-field forms of music.
And be aware of what may be imprinted on our impressionable and malleable children in their formative years by the people to whom we expose them.
I was brought up in West Bromwich, and spent my formative years dyeing my hair peroxide blonde and scowling a lot.
Experiences in the most formative years may well reconfigure the sensory cortices of individuals.
They'd spot my fascination for Hollywood's formative years, and my devotion to the novel.
Mr Birch, 29, is the son of a fairground showman and spent his formative years touring fair sites around Yorkshire.
He may exercise professional restraint but in his formative years he was used to exhibiting a more volatile personality.
Recalling H.R. Haldeman's formative years as an advertising executive for bug spray, I forswore bug spray.
None of them will be encouraged to abandon school early to spend their formative years in shadowy snooker halls.
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He had undergone the labours of a titan for twelve eventful and formative years.
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