Example sentences for: schoolboy

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

  • The title is taken from one of Sir Francis Bacon's sententious essays one read as a schoolboy.

  • More to the point, Mamet can have himself a whale of a time directing a series of civilized confrontations that escalate in importance--from the young man who asks Winslow senior for his daughter's hand in marriage (and the precise amount of her dowry) to a cunning barrister, Sir Robert Morton (Jeremy Northam), who uses every rhetorical trick he can think of to wear down a Parliament weary of a twopenny schoolboy scandal.

  • These other writers were public figures during the war; Lind was a schoolboy.

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

  • Though the author of Advertisements for Myself has always liked his sex the way a schoolboy likes his pie--any way he can get it--he was never the hippest cat in the pack (witness "The White Negro," his attempt to grapple with the Beats, which proved the adage that those who had to ask what hip was, weren't).


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