schoolboy

Example Sentences

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As a schoolboy, Norris wrote, he was shy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

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 The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

A police officer has told an inquest into the death of the Belfast schoolboy Noah Donohoe of the moment she thought the boy's mother realised that her son was no longer alive.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026

Draco Malfoy, one of the schoolboy villains in the Harry Potter series, has become an unlikely New Year mascot.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

He bobbed his head like a shy schoolboy and picked up his briefcase.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng