Sentence examples for to schoolboys from inspiring English sources

She compared the bill to "schoolboys playing at industrial relations".

Whom would you rather be related to?" Schoolboys in short pants sat on a wall, eating sandwiches wrapped in tinfoil.

Programmes teaching schoolgirls that they have a right to say no, and explaining to schoolboys that they have a duty to listen, are being tried out in Uganda and South Africa.

Dan set his sights on a good education, and won a scholarship to St Joseph's Academy in Blackheath, leaving at 16 to teach English to schoolboys in Lisle, France.

Donne recreates the teeming life around the lovers, placing them both, if by default, in ordinary time, with his references to schoolboys, apprentices, courtiers and farm-workers, and in a wider geography of exotic exports and foreign kings.

Finally, there is a very brief work of mnemonic verses for teaching grammar to schoolboys, Commentarius in carmen 'Fundamentum puerorum' (ed. Gansiniec 1960), although its editor believes that it is actually an anonymous abridgement of De modis significandi.

For decades a club could not gain access to schoolboy players until they were 14, prior to that their footballing abilities belonged to the school, district and England schools teams.

Traditionally, we have viewed our lives as unfolding in stages: Shakespeare's seven ages of man capture our progression from infant to schoolboy to lover to soldier to justice to clown, ending finally in "second childishness and mere oblivion; sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything".

International cricket is a different ball game to schoolboy cricket.

William Gallagher comments that "Press Gang was pretty flawless, but Joking Apart would veer from brilliance to schoolboy humour from week to week".

For eight years a pair of skate shoes belonging to schoolboy Daniel Morcombe lay buried on the banks of small pond on rural farmland outside Queensland's Sunshine Coast.