schoolboy
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And of course I made the schoolboy error: Day before, we did a run-through and they said, “Do you want to put your speech on the prompter?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Elliot Anderson was the schoolboy footballer so good his teachers discussed placing a bet on him playing for England.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
“The Boys of Dungeon Lane” begins with “As You Lie There,” his fond remembrances about a schoolboy crush.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
To Cole, a former schoolboy from east London, that behaviour is normal.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
Not like a young man fighting for his family, smoking books, but like the little schoolboy who ran into my bedroom the night we were taken.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
Like many schoolboys, I idolized Indiana Jones and James Bond for all the usual reasons, not least their double lives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
Based on an original novel by William Golding, it follows a group of schoolboys stranded on a tropical island after a deadly plane crash.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
Director Mohammed Ali Naqvi's pacey documentary tells the real life story of the rescue of Pakistani schoolboys stranded hundreds of feet above a Himalayan valley in a rusting cable car when wires snap.
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
A chorus of schoolboys who sang on a world-famous rendition of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem have been reunited, thanks to an advert in a local newspaper.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2024
I learned that Anatole is more than a teacher of schoolboys and translator of sermons.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
