Sentence examples for that schoolboy from inspiring English sources

"I have that sort of personality where I'm amused by that sort of thing, that schoolboy sense of mischief at wanting to poke fun at people in power," Patel said.

It's that schoolboy classic, the phantom handshake.

I don't think she's any more real than that schoolboy.

He still has that schoolboy mop of blond hair, and were it not for a little stiffness as he rises from his chair, and deep veins on his hands, you would take him for a much younger man.

There was a whole burst of technological innovation in the 18th century that schoolboy historians may remember; the steam engine of James Watt; the spinning jenny of Hargreaves and so on.The contrasting view is that growth comes from inside the system; it is endogenous.

During the years when Tom DeLay and Karl Rove ruled Washington, conservatives wondered what they had to learn from a has-been who had been forced from power; now they wonder if he might have just a little more magic left under that schoolboy shock of white hair.

What this accomplished, exactly, was something that schoolboys were vague about: "He discovered electricity" was the usual formula.

Fans talk about Mick Ronson in the same hushed tones that schoolboys once discussed cricketers and astronauts.

And then I read that schoolboys are being "taught to chat up girls in a mentoring scheme".

And yes, the humor is sub-adolescent, with the sort of groaning puns and flatulence jokes that schoolboys have always found irresistible.

We heard, shockingly, that schoolboys at the mosque's school had been asked by Ofsted inspectors their views on the terror group as part of the assessment of the institution.