schoolboy
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She said the schoolboy was supported by the "love, prayers and encouragement of his family, friends, school and wider community".
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Browne is intellectual, playful, cheeky — the domain of schoolboy dreams and art world fancy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
“The Boys of Dungeon Lane” begins with “As You Lie There,” his fond remembrances about a schoolboy crush.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
In “Conundrum,” Morris claimed that it had “seemed perfectly natural to me to play the girl’s role” in schoolboy romances at Lancing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
He looked around with enthusiasm, pleased as a schoolboy.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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
Like giddy schoolboys, they couldn't wait to get there, says Ferguson.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 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
Many of them were just schoolboys when the coup occurred in 2021.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025
In my imagination Anatole and I talk in English, though in real life he mostly speaks Kikongo to his schoolboys.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
