Sentence examples for competitive schoolboy from inspiring English sources
For Beattie, who has played for eight different clubs during a professional career spanning nearly 18 years, his appointment as Accrington manager provides a symmetry to his early days playing competitive schoolboy football in the Lancashire town.
The George-Boris rivalry is of the sort that sends those who are allergic to metropolitan, Oxford-educated public schoolboys into anaphylactic shock: joshing, competitive, and simultaneously serious and ironic.
At the age of 12, I rode my first race as a schoolboy and got completely hooked on the competitive spirit, the teamwork and of course something called the Tour de France and all the great riders, like Jacques Anquetil and Fausto Coppi.
By 3.36pm they were romping like cosseted schoolboys towards what already looks like a competitive – these things are relative – first-innings total against reliably crumple-prone opponents.
As schoolchildren, girls excel in literature while schoolboys excel in mathematics and science; girls are more likely to rely on adults to settle disputes and to take relationships more seriously than competition while boys focus on more complex, competitive and rule-governed games.
Even as a schoolboy, Allen recalls, Gates had lofty goals and a fierce competitive streak.
These boys are fiercely competitive, but they play with a joie de vivre I've rarely seen in schoolboy cricket back home.
Tomorrow: A Berlin schoolboy remembers.
It was a schoolboy prank, retaliating for another schoolboy prank.
