Sentence examples for a foolish boy from inspiring English sources

The future history of England pivots on the lies of a foolish boy.

Looking around their seedy motel room, Wolff thinks that "this was just the kind of room that a foolish boy might be killed in".

After the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862, he wrote, "I want to say, as we lay there and the shells were flying over us, my thoughts went back to my home, and I thought what a foolish boy I was to run away and get into such a mess as I was in.

The show opens with his 7ft life model posing in all his proud nakedness for an art class: a foolish animatronic boy with a Pinocchio nose, comedy ears and disproportionately short legs, a bucket strategically positioned beneath his spindly penis.

And the role of Ryan – who is known for saying "jeah" and had attempted to trademark the phrase, but a Milwaukee clothing company blocked it – is that of the sweet, loving, irresponsible, foolish boy.

But he was too fast for me; he jumped up and held his left hand high in the air, muttering, "You foolish boy, what do you think you're doing?

On Monday, a Brotherhood spokesman, Ahmed Aref, played down any culpability by the Islamist movement, blaming "foolish boys" for carrying out the attacks on the churches and the security services for failing to prevent them, suggesting a conspiracy.

It would be a foolish person, he says, who looked at the boy flying the kite and thought the boy controlled the wind or the wind controlled the boy.

He remembered that as a child he had often been afraid of the dark, a foolish, almost impossible thing for a country boy, but there it was.

Sending an eighteen-year-old boy to die and kill in a foolish war is not any better than sending an eighteen-year-old girl.

She is a courtesan – hence the fancy dress – who is working with a servant and the boy showing us his hidden cards to cheat a foolish young man.