Sentence examples for schoolkid from inspiring English sources

Asked directly whether this meant he was going to remain at Ford as planned, Mr Mulally added that, "You don't have to worry about me leaving".With an aw-shucks manner and the boyish looks of a schoolkid from his native Kansas, Mr Mulally seemed an unlikely choice to be the carmaker's chief executive when Bill Ford, a family heir, decided to relinquish the role in 2006.

Or maybe the official tributes are genuine, and from now on every 11 January will be Bowie Day, in which any schoolkid whose homework is getting them down is allowed to throw it on the fire and take the car downtown instead, and everyone given a knighthood in the previous week's honours list will be asked to give it back.

All these celebrities with huge reputations – Robert Plant, Annie Lennox, Peter Gabriel – and as he entered the room it was as if he was the headmaster and everyone else was just a silly schoolkid.

Most of the list looks like that of any American schoolkid in his early twenties: "Nineteen Eighty-Four," "Fahrenheit 451," "To Kill A Mockingbird".

Images transmitted to our telescopes from space are old, as every schoolkid knows, and yet they present a prospect that we think of as "the future".

One reader, Joe of Brooklyn, touchingly wonders if, as a schoolkid, that certain gorgeous dream of a teacher ever fancied him, envying those 15-year-old students these days taken "twixt the sheets by a comely and passionate high school teacher".

Professor James Arthur, director of the University of Birmingham's Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, and a judge for the coalition's recent Character awards, explains that while the idea of teaching character to schoolkids has been around since the 1880s, modern interest began 14 years ago.

The rocky great-apes enclosure is constantly surrounded by tittering schoolkids, pointing at the pink and blue posteriors on display in the baboon and mandrill pens.

In 1960 only 15% of Israeli schoolkids attended Arab or haredi schools.

They trash its monetary policy as enthusiastically as the schoolkids trashed their canteen.

American schoolkids pondering whether to take on huge student loans are constantly told that college is the gateway to the middle class.