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Wondering how to use Schoolboy in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as boy or schoolchild.

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Schoolboy in a sentence

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Schoolboy meaning

A boy attending school.

Synonyms of Schoolboy

male child boy schoolchild school-age child pupil

Using Schoolboy

  • The main meaning on this page is: A boy attending school.
  • Useful related words include: male child, boy, schoolchild, school-age child.
  • In the example corpus, schoolboy often appears in combinations such as: the schoolboy, as schoolboy, schoolboy who.

Context around Schoolboy

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 27.1 words
  • Position in the sentence: 7 start, 7 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 2 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Schoolboy

  • In this selection, "schoolboy" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, australia, syrian, irish, errors, days and hamish stand out and add context to how "schoolboy" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a dumbarton schoolboy has spoken and a syrian schoolboy who was. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "schoolboy" sits close to words such as aadhaar, adler and alexandre, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with schoolboy

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Irish schoolboy Cillian O'Connor performed on Sunday night - hoping to win the competition. (14 words)

Picking him up, knee lift, slinging him aside, Lorenzo reverses into a schoolboy for two! (15 words)

Last Wednesday, a schoolboy who brought two handguns to his school killed eight pupils and a security guard. (18 words)

It seemed only a few years back that he was on stage as the gay schoolboy Guy Bennett in the hit play Another Country – his lanky, mop-headed, insolent beauty a foil to a fellow pupil played by the young Kenneth Branagh in all his sturdy sandiness. (47 words)

He lost a in 2021 for slurs against a Syrian schoolboy who was filmed being attacked at school, and the attorney general’s office is considering taking legal action for contempt of court after a documentary repeating the libel was circulated. (41 words)

The degree to which the principal performances by Dustin Hoffman, Streep and a glorious and spontaneous child named Justin Henry (discovered as a schoolboy, not a precocious actor) seem never to be performances at all is not less than miraculous. (40 words)

Darius with a springboard reverse STO on Hardy, Zay gets a schoolboy for two, follows it with a lariat! (19 words)

Picking him up, knee lift, slinging him aside, Lorenzo reverses into a schoolboy for two! (15 words)

Example sentences (20)

As such, it is prone to schoolboy errors of judgement, exacerbated by a cultural defensiveness and the ruling party’s refusal to listen to criticism.

Bate took the left arm, then used his unique offensive style to wrestle circles around Lee into a schoolboy for a two-count.

Belair levels Asuka with a forearm across the face, and quickly takes advantage by rolling up Flair into a schoolboy, but she kicks out at two.

Chalamet then clarified soon after that there was more to scoring the role of younger Willy Wonka than just that youthful rapping and tapping during his schoolboy days.

Darius with a springboard reverse STO on Hardy, Zay gets a schoolboy for two, follows it with a lariat!

Former Australia schoolboy Hamish Moore gets a chance at hooker and Nate de Thierry moves from fly-half to fullback.

He lost a in 2021 for slurs against a Syrian schoolboy who was filmed being attacked at school, and the attorney general’s office is considering taking legal action for contempt of court after a documentary repeating the libel was circulated.

However, the midfielder’s future has been the subject of much debate recently, as his schoolboy terms with Arsenal will expire tomorrow and both Chelsea and Manchester City are thought to be interested in his services.

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Irish schoolboy Cillian O'Connor performed on Sunday night - hoping to win the competition.

It seemed only a few years back that he was on stage as the gay schoolboy Guy Bennett in the hit play Another Country – his lanky, mop-headed, insolent beauty a foil to a fellow pupil played by the young Kenneth Branagh in all his sturdy sandiness.

I was so proud – watching him turn from a schoolboy into an amazing young man who had his whole life planned out.

Last Wednesday, a schoolboy who brought two handguns to his school killed eight pupils and a security guard.

Later, Gillespie Sells and director Jonathan Butterell cast him in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, the West End hit about a schoolboy who wants to present his feminine self, a tear-jerking triumph-over-adversity musical.

Picking him up, knee lift, slinging him aside, Lorenzo reverses into a schoolboy for two!

So it’s like you know jab and clothesline or whatever punch and then next I stop and this transformation in my arm and I hit them they turned away into a schoolboy.

That cheeky, petulant arrogance behind a blue-eyed schoolboy face was his trademark, and admittedly, it works well for — an equally petulant and arrogant young man who doesn’t need asking twice when it comes to inflicting ultraviolence.

The armed men entered the bar and open gunfire on the occupants, hitting the schoolboy in the upper body.

The degree to which the principal performances by Dustin Hoffman, Streep and a glorious and spontaneous child named Justin Henry (discovered as a schoolboy, not a precocious actor) seem never to be performances at all is not less than miraculous.

The father of a Dumbarton schoolboy has spoken out after feeling let down over the wait for mental health treatment.

The schoolboy had dozens of bruises to his body and suffered fatal injuries in the bath, likely from being beaten and drowned.

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Common combinations with schoolboy

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "schoolboy" in a sentence?
An example: "As such, it is prone to schoolboy errors of judgement, exacerbated by a cultural defensiveness and the ruling party’s refusal to listen to criticism." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "schoolboy" from authentic English texts.
What does "schoolboy" mean?
Schoolboy means: A boy attending school.
What are synonyms of "schoolboy"?
Common synonyms of "schoolboy" include: male child, boy, schoolchild, school-age child, pupil.
How many example sentences with "schoolboy" are there?
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