SCHOOLBOY in a Sentence
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28 example sentences for SCHOOLBOY, such as:
1. Bob is a fine type of schoolboy.
2. He hopped like a schoolboy in a game.
3. He dug his toe into a drift, like a schoolboy.
4. Wostov, you've not been playing schoolboy twicks.
5. When he laughed, it was the laugh of a schoolboy.
2. He hopped like a schoolboy in a game.
3. He dug his toe into a drift, like a schoolboy.
4. Wostov, you've not been playing schoolboy twicks.
5. When he laughed, it was the laugh of a schoolboy.
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Meanings and Examples of SCHOOLBOY
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schoolboy
n. a boy attending school
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1 The captain's face showed the uneasiness of a schoolboy who is told to repeat a lesson he has not learned.
2 Wostov, you've not been playing schoolboy twicks.
3 He was afraid of getting some other officer into trouble, and silently fixed his eyes on Bagration as a schoolboy who has blundered looks at an examiner.
4 The count, like a punished schoolboy, looked round, trying by a smile to win Simon's sympathy for his plight.
5 Throughout his journey he felt like a schoolboy on holiday.
6 There is no one in Russian literature now, from schoolboy essayist to learned historian, who does not throw his little stone at Alexander for things he did wrong at this period of his reign.
7 Sixteen at the most, thought Scarlett irrelevantly, must be one of the Home Guard or a runaway schoolboy.
8 He dug his toe into a drift, like a schoolboy.
9 She was inflexible about paying for her own seat; said she was in business now, and she wouldn't have a schoolboy spending his money on her.
10 He hopped like a schoolboy in a game.
11 It appeared so long, since I had been a schoolboy there, that I wondered the place was so little changed, until I reflected how little I was changed myself.
12 They both had the same feeling, rather like that of a schoolboy after an examination, which has left him in the same class or shut him out of the school forever.
13 When they came back to him, he studiously drove them away, regarding them as shameful and girlish, below the dignity of a boy and a schoolboy.
14 When he laughed, it was the laugh of a schoolboy.
15 Besides, d'Artagnan was but twenty years old, and consequently had not yet forgotten his schoolboy habits.
Example Sentence:
1 Bob is a fine type of schoolboy.
2 After all these years I still feel like a schoolboy when I hold your hand.
3 A schoolboy at the back of the room piped up with a remark that made the audience laugh.
4 John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old, large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome skin; thick lineaments in a spacious visage.
5 And he also put into the hat certain schoolboy treasures of almost inestimable value -- among them a lump of chalk, an India-rubber ball, three fishhooks, and one of that kind of marbles known as a "sure 'nough crystal."
6 In this city, religious police, government officials and squads of schoolboys monitor women and girls' behavior and appearance.