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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a school boy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a male student who attends school, typically in a primary or secondary education setting.
Example: "The school boy eagerly raised his hand to answer the teacher's question."
Alternatives: "a student" or "a pupil".
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His first baller would have disappointed a school boy rabbit.
As a school boy the author always spent his holidays with his relatives in the sheep country of Australia.
Please pity me a shy sentiment of a school boy, who in sending his thesis to his master.
As a school boy he refused to wear boring black school shoes, instead opting for loud flashy trainers.
The Daily Telegraph devotes part of its front page to a fellow pupil recalling Nick Clegg as a school boy.
In the summer of 2010, the Kashmir valley in Indian-controlled Kashmir erupted with protests after a school boy was killed under controversial circumstances.
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At the time of this inscription (either 1837 or 1841), Rossetti would still have been a school-boy.
Indeed, the story as shown in the author's own honed to the bone precis is, on one level, simple enough: "First he had been a child, then a school-boy, then his mother died.
"The Bothie" (summed up by Humbert Wolfe as "a school-boy shout on escaping from school into the air") was completed in 1848, the year that Clough, having previously resigned an Oxford fellowship, refused to take holy orders.
The interviewers were surprised that "a School-boy should know Macrobius", and he was accepted immediately.
However, Forster did not want to have his writing corrected "like a theme of a School-boy," and stubbornly refused any compromise in this direction.
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