Sentence examples for lads once from inspiring English sources

"I got attacked at a fairground by 14 lads once.

The 34-year-old: "Being one of the older lads, once you pass 30 years of age you have to manage yourself differently, maintain yourself, train more, train less, rest periods...particularly lads who have picked up injuries.

An unpretentious Bolton lad once best-known as Peter Kay's sidekick in Phoenix Nights and Max And Paddy's Road To Nowhere, he was carving out a career as a touring stand-up when Take Me Out came calling.

Do you remember that hour of din before the attack And the anger, the blind compassion that seized and shook you then As you peered at the doomed and haggard faces of your men? Do you remember the stretcher cases lurching back With dying eyes and lolling heads – those ashen-grey Masks of the lads who once were keen and kind and gay?

Or, "What a clumsy, earnest lad he once was".

The young Housman doesn't recognize his older self, of course, and the older man takes a while to identify the lad he once was.

Out on the grassy hulk of Zennor Head I gaze down into Pendour Cove, where a local lad, Matthew Trewhella, once marched away into the sea in pursuit of a beautiful girl with an angelic voice.

Who would have foreseen that the lad who once dodged a club tour to Dubai because it clashed with a racing festival would one day be the master of all the disciplines that make up one of the world's top trainers?

Then again, at least there is some noise, something other than the silence currently smothering the space between you and the four uni boys – the "Law Lads", as you once were.

The Lads, who were once keen to comment "must do better #SHITLAD" or the same tired Patrick Stewart memes on pieces like "How to Pull a Fresher" seemed to have picked up a copy of Chomsky's Hegemony Or Survival (or at least Owen Jones Chavss) and are now churning out the same new-left truisms that you'd usually see shared on an NUS delegate's Twitter feed.

Eggsy (Taron Egerton), a working-class London lad whose father once spied and died for Kingsman, is encouraged by Galahad to apply for the Round Table, jockeying with a bunch of better-bred candidates for a single vacant spot.