lad

Example Sentences

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In addition to being named Orson, the lad has chronic gastrointestinal distress and plays the bassoon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Nathan: I'd like to think that they'd describe me as the same lad I was growing up.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

The lad is only 10 years old, though, so he’ll have to wait: Nobody under 12 is allowed to fly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

Elliott said: "It's absolutely brilliant. It's such an honour, a lad from a council estate in Rotherham, and after all these years, getting an MBE is just such an honour. I'm very much a royalist."

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025

Almost immediately, the Captain saw something in the skinny, hungry lad from Gary—some spark of raw intelligence, perhaps—and took him as a protégé.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam