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• The schoolboy called out to his friend while he was peeing in the urinal.From the entry pee
• The schoolboy was commended for raising the alarm about the burning building.From the entry commend
• The rival schoolboys traded insults and punches.From the entry trade
• The schoolboy flicked his nose pickings across the classroom.From the entry picking
• The schoolboy was scolded for misconjugating a Latin verb.From the entry misconjugate
• This was a 20-year-old local lad, product of down the road, out-thinking Barcelona, making them look like callow, pigeon-chested schoolboys.2019 May 8, Barney Ronay, “Liverpool’s waves of red fury and recklessness end in joyous bedlam”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian…. From the entry callow
• I remember that while I was still a schoolboy, I read about the islands in the geography books.1979, “Problems with Socialist Countries”, in King C. Chen, editor, China and the Three Worlds: A Foreign Policy Reader, M.E. Sharpe…. From the entry Chung-sha
• "Where have you been, schoolboy?" the kakro seller asked.1975, Selby Ashong-Katai, Confessions of a Bastard: And Other Stories, page 121. From the entry kakro
• Lawrence died defending his vessel and his famous last words, "Don't give up the ship," have been familiar to every schoolboy.1908, "“Don't Give Up The Ship.”," New York Times, 5 Jan. (retrieved 2 Oct 2010). From the entry famous last words
• By that time Stiles had already represented England schoolboys as a right-half, displaying attacking talents that would be somewhat inhibited in his later career.2020 October 30, Brian Glanville, “Nobby Stiles obituary”, in The Guardian. From the entry right-half
• Suddenly the carriage was full of boofy schoolboys all excitedly chesting and punching each other and stretching their limbs as they tried to sit still.2011, Dave Graney, 1001 Australian Nights: A Memoir, page 116. From the entry boofy
• He is a curly-haired schoolboy barely in his teens, but 13-year-old Jordan Romero from California has become the youngest person to climb Mount Everest.2010 May 22, David Harrison, “American boy, 13, is youngest person to climb Everest”, in Daily Telegraph online. From the entry climb
• Two adorable fashion boys eagerly welcomed us, one in a schoolboy outfit and the other floating around in a flappy white smock-cape.2009 July 23, Mike Albo, “A Neighborhood for Aspirations”, in New York Times. From the entry flappy
• For Tories like Cartland, deviating from the Chamberlain line was seen as betrayal, not disagreement, and the deviators were subjected to raw schoolboy pressure.2007 April 29, Jon Meacham, “Friends of Winston”, in New York Times. From the entry deviator
• "Bit of luck my being here," said the brigadier, with a smile, rather like a schoolboy who has done something and got away with it.1946, Richard McMillan, Miracle Before Berlin. From the entry bowler hat out
• "My wife's diamonds, thank heaven!" cried Sir Benjamin, with the air of a schoolboy who was very well out of a swishing.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados. From the entry swishing
• He had seen this method adopted by schoolboys, when the journey- money provided by thoughtful parents had been diverted to other and better ends.1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC. From the entry squeeze
• As a schoolboy in the Soviet Ukraine's second largest city of Kharkiv, (it was then spelled Kharkov in line with the all-permeating 'Russification'), I was a railway buff.2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 46. From the entry permeating
• As a schoolboy in the Soviet Ukraine’s second largest city of Kharkiv, (it was then spelled Kharkov in line with the all-permeating ‘Russification’), I was a railway buff.2024 September 4th, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine’s ‘Second Army’”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 46. From the entry Kharkiv
• Both works include culturally specific references, hence my inclusion of some obvious material which 'every (Bengali) schoolboy (sic) knows', all directed to non-Banglaphone Indian and international readers.2018 June 9, Abanindranath Tagore, Gaganendranath Tagore, Fantasy Fictions from the Bengal Renaissance: Abanindranath Tagore’s The…. From the entry banglaphone
• God wades through the oceans (Job 38:16) like a schoolboy might puddle-jump in his rubber boots while the stars sing at the sunrise of a new day (Job 38:7).2016, David J. Lynden, Fluid with God, →ISBN. From the entry puddle-jump
• While there was always a touch of the caricature about the Sandhurst cadet as the nice-but-dim public schoolboy, there was also a significant measure of truth.2002 July 23, John Crace, The Guardian. From the entry nice-but-dim
• He sang Landor's lines in a quavering falsetto, then broke raucously into the schoolboy battle-cry of "Hit him on the boko, hit him on the boko, Jericho!"1965, The Illustrated Weekly of India, volume 86, number 1, page 41. From the entry boko
• I peered at his rather featureless face through the moony twilight; and then he suddenly rose and paced the path with the impatience of a schoolboy.c. 1915, G. K. Chesterton, Father Brown's Solution. From the entry moony
• It is even a ghastlier notion that the jokesomeness of a philosopher, the unessential fringe of a subject, often becomes the soul-destroying weary, worrying study of a schoolboy.1900, John Perry, England's Neglect of Science. From the entry jokesomeness
• You'd think a nurse would want to get blood on her uniform to show people she did something useful with her day instead of just saving schoolboys from paper cuts.2013, Scott Blagden, Dear Life, You Suck, page 86. From the entry paper cut

Meaning of schoolboy

1. noun A boy attending school.
2. adjective Characteristic of a schoolboy, especially being cheeky, clumsy and socially unaware.

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Questions about schoolboy in a sentence

How do you use schoolboy in a sentence?

Schoolboy is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “The schoolboy called out to his friend while he was peeing in the urinal.”

What is a short sentence with schoolboy?

“The rival schoolboys traded insults and punches.”

What does schoolboy mean?

Schoolboy means a boy attending school.