schoolboy

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

We track his evolution from Liverpudlian schoolboy to American media entrepreneur, his heart broken repeatedly by an English team whose hype is never matched by its performance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

The schoolboy said it would be "quite unusual" to become the youngest amputee to complete the challenge and added he was proud of himself for signing up.

From BBC ● May 13, 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

The pair, who met as schoolboys in Bushey, Hertfordshire, found themselves acting as unlikely cultural ambassadors, introducing western pop music to audiences unfamiliar with it.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

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

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

Anatole goes to our neighbors’ houses, one by one, offering his condolences for our village’s lost schoolboys.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver