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

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

The inquest into the death of Belfast schoolboy Noah Donohoe has heard from the first person to call the police out to the area where he was later found.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026

He had book learning and was almost twenty- one; still he could make a ten-year-old schoolboy feel proud as a man.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt