Example sentences for: lad

How can you use “lad” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Now, all--or at any rate, quiz participants all--smirk knowingly at the dark desires implicit in a photo of Santa embracing a comely lad, embellished with the most potent of pederast symbols, baseball paraphernalia.

  • When I was a lad, the word nigger was taboo in the US, but it was used freely till recently in Britain (meaning `any dark-skinned person'): the word Negro (with a capital N ) was carefully used instead.

  • .. In retrospect, perhaps, but when I was a lad, we never missed one of the films, and they were enormously popular.

  • ..“My God, what have they done to you, lad?

  • Hungarian folk-dancing is well worth watching, and takes you through the whole gamut of courtly wedding dances to high-energy, boot-slapping “Lad’s Dances” from the 18th century.


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