Sentence examples for lad of the from inspiring English sources

"Jack" was the lad of the family, in more ways than one.

He brags endlessly to his friend Shovel (a tough and brutally misused lad) of the beauties and superiority of Thrums.

He might also neglect to give Bill (whose acronym would be SLOTUS, Second Lad of the United States) full White House access.

As befits a lad of the 1960s with a talent for smooth come-ons, Frank Abagnale Jr. prefaces the story of his life with the promise that it will have "more curves than a Playboy bunny".

The critics have, for the most part at least, been rather dazzled by this unorthodox biopic of Ian Dury, that unlikely lad of the late 70s and early 80s music scene: a pugacious polio survivor whose lyrical dexterity delved the mucky depths of British society for pearls of wisdom.

It is quite a transformation, given that in the wild years of the 1990s, when the YBAs held their own in the drinking, tooting and necking pills stakes with Noel and Liam and the rest of the Britpop crew, Hirst was the loudest, drunkest and, some would say, most objectionable lad of the lot.

This year's hosts are those lively lads of the talk-dance circuit, David Dorfman and Dan Froot.

These lads of the Black Watch, a centuries-old regiment of the Scottish Highlands, are as spontaneously foul-mouthed, exuberant, angry and frightened as they were four years ago.

I think we have got to free those lads of the past and they have got to believe in themselves as a group.

Yet this is no ordinary rooftop; the lads of The Italian Job have stumbled onto the four-storey-high racetrack atop the most famous structure in Turin.

"He came in and has held the hand and guided the younger lads of the island through as well as any professional player we could have hoped for.