Example sentences for: schoolboys

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Mr. Quelch, form master of the Remove, was a beast, but a just beast, a phrase echoed by many schoolboys of that era.

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

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


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