schoolboy

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of schoolboy On Sanday, another one of the Orkney Islands, a warship connected to the American Revolution was uncovered on a beach by a schoolboy. Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2025 El Salvador issued an order restricting how schoolboys’ hair should be cut, highlighting the government’s authoritarian turn. Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 22 Aug. 2025 Here, Thorne talks about the show and his upcoming projects, which include The Hack, about the very British News International phone-hacking scandal, an adaption of William Golding’s schoolboy survival story Lord of the Flies, and Sam Mendes’s Beatles project. Damon Wise, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2025 After a windy winter storm whipped against the Scottish island of Sanday in February 2024, a schoolboy stumbled upon several peculiar wooden beams emerging from the dunes of a local beach. Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for schoolboy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schoolboy
Noun
  • In a Monday statement, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong said China and Japan were working toward a constructive and stable relationship, and expressed his regret over the death of the Japanese schoolchild.
    Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Louisiana just enthusiastically passed a law designed to convert every schoolchild in the state to Christianity.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 24 June 2024
Noun
  • We were bullied, after all, by the older teenagers who beat us on a regular basis, bloodied our mouths with one punch.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • With two teenagers, Short's grocery bill is about $1,100 a month.
    Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This season, fluorescent pink, blue and white formed a rational yet romantic palette — a vision of a young schoolgirl poised to step into the real world.
    Denni Hu, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Since then, there’s been little doubt about who police believe is responsible for the 12-year-old schoolgirl’s gruesome death.
    Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Penguins, who are strongly considering keeping the 18-year-old Kindel and the 19-year-old Brunicke in the NHL all season, don’t want the youngsters playing 82 games.
    Josh Yohe, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Here was a youngster having a vision of a horror that everyone older was denying.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And so trusting in that, and trusting that what will happen eventually to the work is that my love of reading will propel me, will push me to make something that a reader will also want to read and or enjoy reading or be devastated by.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The material contained on this site is intended to inform, entertain and educate the reader and in no way represents an inducement to gamble legally or illegally or any sort of professional advice.
    Lillian Metzmeier, Louisville Courier Journal, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The key to raising emotionally resilient kids is the ability to repair.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Keaton is survived by her two kids, daughter Dexter, 29, and son Duke, 25.
    Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Gunterman is immersed in local student journalism as the executive director of the Indiana High School Press Association and the faculty adviser of Franklin College's student newspaper.
    Cate Charron, IndyStar, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Schools may not have more than one of their students on the ballot each week.
    Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Choose the one that works best for your adolescent.
    Dr. Theresa T. Nguyen, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Twenge has spent much of the past decade warning parents about the risks of giving young adolescents unlimited access to smartphones and social media.
    Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 5 Oct. 2025

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Schoolboy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolboy. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

More from Merriam-Webster on schoolboy

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!