Example sentences for: schoolboy

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

  • A 7-year-old Queens, N.Y., boy is charged with sexual harassment and suspended from the second grade for kissing a female classmate; within a week, his picture is on the front page of the New York Times . A similar incident involving a 6-year-old schoolboy in North Carolina becomes a national scandal.

  • David Mamet directs a G-rated family drama, based on Terrence Rattigan's 1946 play about a schoolboy accused of petty theft and the legal battle that blossoms in the accusation's wake.

  • You say whatever you want in print, you take on this big book, and then you sit here like a schoolboy in the principal's office."

  • Other highlights: In Chapter 1 , Morris gushes with schoolboy crush describing his first fictional encounter with 15-year-old "Dutch" Reagan: "His purposeful body moved on, exuding liniment.

  • Controversy 1: The Los Angeles Times asks whether it was rape or, "as dozens of male respondents to local newspapers and talk radio programs suggest, the answer to every schoolboy's dream."


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