Sentence examples for lads at school from inspiring English sources

Sporty, with little interest in politics, he "sneered at Labour lads" at school.

Dance music was for bald blokes in anoraks and the kind of lads at school I resented because they were the kind of lads who'd fingered girls at an age where I'd never even touched a girl's hand.

"If you've got a young lad at school and he's being bullied, and he comes out of school at the end of the day and the bully is waiting for him, to give him a good hiding … the bully may be bigger than him, but he has a choice.

You went from being a lad at school to a young adult.

Wes – and this probably says a lot more about me than it says about him – Wes just very much gives me the impression of the popular lad at school who, when you bump into him at a pub two years after graduation, not only remembers your full name ("Joel Golby!

He also has the same sort of sneery face that lads at my school had when they were sporty but also bang into pornography.

Born Philip Anthony Hopkins, the only child of a baker, he was, by his own account, a clumsy, chunky lad, rotten at school and everything else.

We all knew lads like this at school: hair as tall as an oak tree, probably played the trumpet, wasn't actually that clever but his mum would complain and get him moved into the top set.

"I was a lad at secondary school in the 1980s and saw how uprisings get brutally suppressed," he says.

The naming of Arbor is a nod to her previous film: the idea for The Selfish Giant came from Barnard's encountering a young lad at a school workshop while making the documentary.

Mountain bikes are also cool even though there was always a lad at your school who was a little too into it – "Where you going this weekend, Liam?" "Me and me dad are going Epping Forest, I've got a new exoskeleton" "Isn't that what you did last week?" "Always the same" – just took it a little too seriously, liked it a little too much.