Example sentences for: schoolboys

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

  • I cannot however be compared to Japanese schoolboys: I have never been to Japan, and I am self-taught; I can read and write Japanese (slowly) for I did learn both the Katakana and Hiragana syllabaries (47 signs each) as well as a few thousand Chinese characters.

  • Thus, numerous trans-alphabetic glossaries—Greek-Latin, LatinGreek, Hebrew-Latin, Arabic-Coptic, and ArabicGreek—once thought to be schoolboys' exercises, are probably elementary aids for tourists, pilgrims, and businessmen.

  • In England, schoolboys came to call a whopping exaggeration a “Marco Polo.”

  • Eighty years before the “Dead Poets' Society” was filmed, another master was shaping the vocabulary of schoolboys.

  • On Page 13 there's a shot of New York schoolboys admiring a sidewalk assortment of metal windup toys.


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