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.

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • It's a turgid welter of pornography (the rudest schoolboy kind) & uninformed & unimportant drivel.

  • 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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