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 blond-haired schoolboy flanker sprinting from his own 22 to score a solo try, external for Northampton Saints Under-18s will not go unmissed.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 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

This is going to be some kind of schoolboy masquerade, I thought, some masquerade with masks and candles.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles