Sentence examples for schoolmates from inspiring English sources

With just one toilet at school, like many her schoolmates, she went home "so no one would see me".

Friends, schoolmates and teachers have all confirmed that a career on the stage had never occurred to the younger Carlyle.

He did far more ballet lessons than he ever let on, either to his disapproving father or his schoolmates.

Everybody and his brother-in-law seems to be starting a company with old schoolmates or army colleagues, in a spare room or the parental home.

In his own writing he relates joyfully how as a 12-year-old boy he led a gang of schoolmates to stone his village mosque and smash its windows and tiles, in the aftermath of Hindu-Muslim riots.

Mocked by critics as "Gucci protesters", opponents worry that children will be held back by schoolmates destined to be social and economic laggards and by teachers who cater to their weaknesses.

There was no denying it: both his parents were gypsies; you could see it, he admitted, in his slightly darker skin and thick lips, which his schoolmates mocked him for.

From popping birds to shooting schoolmates is a leap that very few children take.

At Harrow he participated enthusiastically in all the usual boisterous activities: fist fights and experimental romps with schoolmates, gang-warfare with the local thugs, the annual cricket match with Eton at Lord's though on his own account he did dissuade fellow pupils from setting fire to the school.

Though from an Anglo family, as Texans call white English-speakers, she wants a flamboyantly Hispanic celebration of her fifteenth birthday, or a quinceañera just like the ones thrown by her Latina schoolmates.

Le Journal's founder, Aboubakr Jamai, who was driven into exile several years ago to escape libel fines and now lives in Spain, says the press has been "domesticated" by the king's powerful counsellors, for the most part his schoolmates from the Royal College in Rabat, the capital.