schoolboy
Example Sentences
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“I am as merry as a schoolboy,” he crows, suddenly young again.
We know Augustine in a way that we do no other ancient individual except perhaps Cicero, the Roman orator of the late Republic whose writings were required texts for centuries of schoolboys.
Mr Thomas told the sentencing hearing that his client was eccentric and claimed there was a "schoolboy quality" to his interests.
From BBC
Robin Arnold Smith was born in Durban, South Africa in 1963 to British-born parents, and made his name as a schoolboy prodigy in cricket and rugby.
From BBC
Kiarostami sets up a scene in which a young schoolboy returns his peer’s notebook, now torn.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
