schoolboy

Example Sentences

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As a schoolboy, he discovered a talent for math and English, eventually enrolling at Macquarie University to study actuarial science at a mentor’s suggestion.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 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

As a schoolboy, Norris wrote, he was shy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

In the winter of 1831, when Mendel was still a schoolboy in Silesia, a young clergyman-in-training, Charles Darwin, boarded a ten-gun brig-sloop, the HMS Beagle, at Plymouth Sound, on the southwestern shore of England.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee