Example sentences for: schoolboys

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • One might quarrel with an occasional comment (like, [The Techne ] might be said to have become the basis of every Greek textbook that schoolboys, in England and elsewhere, would face until the year 1000, which must have encompassed a relatively small number), but such are few and far between in the earlier chapters of the book.

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


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