Example sentences for: schoolboy

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

  • gyaru-bôi `effeminate schoolboy': gyaru `girl + bôi `boy'

  • 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.

  • The recent resurgence of interest in his stories in modern reprints and broadcasts shows that this archaic schoolboy slang is still perfectly recognizable and acceptable to a new generation as we near the 21st century.

  • Ripping, whopper `lie,' nunky for `uncle,' take a pew `seat,' on their jiggers `bicycles,' playing the goat, a measly solicitor, cad, and rotter, and similar expressions were all part of typical schoolboy slang before World War II, and F.R.

  • The WP 's continuing front-page deconstruction of Bill Bradley today looks at his schoolboy days in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.


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