schoolboy
Example Sentences
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As a schoolboy, Norris wrote, he was shy.
The name Gunningham first emerged in what declared to be a world exclusive by The Mail in 2008, describing him as "a former public schoolboy brought up in middle-class suburbia".
From BBC
In a statement to the inquest, Dr Marjorie Turner said she conducted the postmortem, and she found that the schoolboy's death was consistent with drowning.
From BBC
The schoolboy friends' relationship had deteriorated and they were rarely seen together, usually travelling separately to corporate events.
From BBC
Trotsky was a dazzling speaker and a dandy who “never quite stopped being a clever schoolboy desperate to show others how much he had learned.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
