Examples of lad in a Sentence
Life was hard when I was a lad.
Well, lad, I hope you won't make the same mistake again!
He's a good lad at heart.
They can't treat us like that, can they, lads?!
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Mescal, Keoghan, Quinn, and Dickinson are each headlining their own respective Beatles film, which will dive deep into the minds of the Liverpudlian lads who changed music forever.
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Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Jan. 2026
Laborious yet lithe lads and lasses have loyally leapt to luminate the lexical labyrinths of logic locking the lucrative lotto, longing to lure the lavish luxury lying latently in local landmarks.
—Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2026
Five years ago in Placer County, Lavrenov was a thick-bodied lad before the weight room transformed his body.
—Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 23 Jan. 2026
Signed by Glamorgan — first on a rookie deal and then, last April, on a full contract — having impressed while at Cardiff Met University, this lad is a headline writer’s dream.
—Sam Dalling, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2026
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Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Jan. 2026
Laborious yet lithe lads and lasses have loyally leapt to luminate the lexical labyrinths of logic locking the lucrative lotto, longing to lure the lavish luxury lying latently in local landmarks.
—Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2026
Five years ago in Placer County, Lavrenov was a thick-bodied lad before the weight room transformed his body.
—Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 23 Jan. 2026
Signed by Glamorgan — first on a rookie deal and then, last April, on a full contract — having impressed while at Cardiff Met University, this lad is a headline writer’s dream.
—Sam Dalling, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2026
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“Lad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lad. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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lad
noun1
: boy sense 1, youth
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