schoolboy
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The inquest heard how the schoolboy went out onto streets beside his home in the Holylands area of Belfast in the early hours of the day of his disappearance.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
I will continue to wage this lonely battle as long as septuagenarian Angus Young is hopping around in schoolboy shorts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
A schoolboy named Waldham slipped off the cliffs after a scrum with friends and broke his arm in 1881.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
The prime suspect at the time was 15-year-old schoolboy Ross, but without sufficient evidence the case went cold.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
He was a compliant Catholic schoolboy who sold furniture at a department store to help pay for college before taking a job at a suburban high school.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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
"Hanging by a Wire" tells the story of the nail-biting race to save schoolboys dangling from a stranded cable car in the Himalayan foothills.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
It looked like a set of schoolboys out there - no real direction.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2025
In one shot, a crowd of schoolboys share their dreams with the camera.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
“Béene, think,” he said patiently, as if I were one of his schoolboys stumped on an easy problem.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
