Sentence examples for ordinary lad from inspiring English sources

At the time he was an ordinary lad, we went to nightclubs and we enjoyed ourselves.

He has that steely-silver coat, an emotively appropriate name, given his dominant trailblazing style, and is an ordinary lad made good.

"Ordinary lads out enjoying themselves".

In a joint statement, the pair said that as "two ordinary lads from the west end of Newcastle" they were "shocked but incredibly honoured" to receive the awards.

In fact, the great unwashed were constantly renewing the High Arts and some of the finest practitioners were in fact ordinary lads from similar backgrounds to mine.

In fact, the great unwashed were constantly renewing the High Arts and some of the finest practitioners were actually ordinary lads (this was the Seventies) from similar backgrounds to mine.

A sense of entitlement finally overwhelmed what had once been a bunch of ordinary lads, essentially no different from, and no less talented than, those assembled by Alf Ramsey in 1966.

"We were just ordinary lads when we came in 1944.

All sides played Spot the Fake Accent: whether it was the grammar school boy mocking the toff playing at being one of the ordinary lads, or the first generation middle-class kid being satirised for trying to sound posh.

"He's the ordinary Yorkshire lad who got on".

Talha Asmal, described as an "ordinary Yorkshire lad", reportedly blew himself up on Saturday aged 17 during an Isis assault on an Iraqi oil refinery.