Schoolboys

Word SCHOOLBOYS
Character 10
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Definitions and meanings of "Schoolboys"

What do we mean by schoolboys?

A boy attending school.

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The word "schoolboys" in example sentences

According to the New Zealand Herald the latest fad among Auckland schoolboys is wearing household slippers to school. ❋ Unknown (2007)

At Harrow the inch-thick oak planks of the Elizabethan benches have been completely worn through in places by the perpetual fidgeting of hundreds of generations of schoolboys, which is as remarkable in its way as the knee grooves at ❋ Frederick Spencer Hamilton (1892)

His sons, the Archbishop and his brother, attended the grammar school, rather celebrated in the country; they ran about and played like other lads, and were known as schoolboys to the peasantry. ❋ Ramsay, Edward B (1874)

And while Mitt Romney and Rick Perry behaved like petulant, name-calling schoolboys, Herman Cain weathered a half-hour assault on his 999 plan, with which CNN began the debate. ❋ The Huffington Post News Editors (2011)

The reason the admins took this line about "schoolboys" is to cover their butts over their provable collusion with this man Crushed by Ingsoc. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But the Editor of a Catholic Boys’ Paper rose to the situation; he collected petrol, roused the neighbourhood, called the schoolboys about him, probably their parents, wired for a film photographer that all might be displayed in Dublin, and having ‘bought up all unsold copies ଎ burned them in the public thoroughfare’. ❋ W.B. Yeats (2000)

Nevertheless, there was much to admire in the older men, who possessed a self-reliance, a knowledge of nature, and a certain rough grace which made them interesting companions, and rendered them effective teachers of camping and trailing, and while they were secretly a little contemptuous of the "schoolboys"; they were all quite ready to ask for expert aid when knotty problems arose. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)

He turned to me with a singular furtive smile, such as schoolboys use when in fault; and says he, in a private whisper and without the least preface: “Where have you buried him? ❋ Unknown (1889)

(Fig. 56) such as schoolboys use, a stick tied to the end of a string; this he constantly whirled, producing a sound like that of a rain storm. ❋ Washington Matthews (1874)

Oftentimes, with the help of a miniature stage, such as schoolboys delight in, he is enabled to form a fair estimate of the effect that may be expected of his design. ❋ Dutton Cook (1856)

Foreign Secretary David Miliband has called the Conservatives "schoolboys" in a wide-ranging speech at the Labour Party Conference. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Conservatives "schoolboys" in a wide-ranging speech at the Labour Party Conference. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Rod Stewart and Keith Richards were 'schoolboys' compared to the Italian PM's sexual antics ❋ Unknown (2009)

With drums beating, schoolboys parading, and scores of people lining streets decked with Russian and Palestinian flags, the Russian leader's visit gave Palestinians a chance to show themselves as ready for statehood. ❋ Unknown (2011)

We were Scottish rather than English schoolboys on the plane in 1957, though British wasn't then a problematic identity. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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