schoolboys
- plural of schoolboy.
Example Sentences
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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
Based on an original novel by William Golding, it follows a group of schoolboys stranded on a tropical island after a deadly plane crash.
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026
"Hanging by a Wire" tells the story of the nail-biting race to save schoolboys dangling from a stranded cable car in the Himalayan foothills.
From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026
We know Augustine in a way that we do no other ancient individual except perhaps Cicero, the Roman orator of the late Republic whose writings were required texts for centuries of schoolboys.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
Anatole goes to our neighbors’ houses, one by one, offering his condolences for our village’s lost schoolboys.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
