schoolboys in English
A group of young American schoolboys from a military academy are stranded on a tropical island after a plane the boys were traveling in crashed into the sea.
Use "schoolboys" in a sentence
1. They watched him intently, like a group of schoolboys would a fearsome master.
2. Until his rampage, Hamilton operated a club for elementary schoolboys in space rented at Dunblane High School.
3. 28 The schoolboys were captivated by the adventures of the heroes in the animated cartoon.
4. This was an abbreviation of ‘Bumfodder’ current from 1889 as schoolboys’ slang for ‘toilet paper’.
5. 25 'Lord of the Flies' is a novel about English schoolboys marooned on a desert island.
6. But, bad for idle schoolboys, it did so happen that they were passably good for him.
7. Thayer) Thus, schoolboys were sometimes given waxed tablets on which the teacher had written letters in model script with a stylus.
8. 7 Schoolboys are very conventional and quick to gang up on any boy who in behaviour or dress does not conform.
9. Schoolboys are very conventional and quick to gang up on any boy who in behaviour or dress does not conform.
10. My fellow schoolboys vied with one another for admission to the cinema, so that they could witness X-rated films.
11. 26 I also remember that schoolboys would start to spit at the same age as they took to smoking on the sly, just to show what grown-ups and tough guys they were.
12. Then students followed with whole Armfuls of books, while schoolboys screamed into the microphone their condemnations of this and that author, and as each name was mentioned the crowd booed and hissed
13. Lord of the Flies, Nobel Prize-winner William Golding’s 1954 dystopian novel, Allegorizes the story of schoolboys marooned on an island to investigate mankind’s inherent savagery.The novel greatly influenced writers of horror and post-apocalyptic fiction
14. Synonyms & Antonyms of Brutishness the manifestation of the traits or the gratification of the appetites of a lower animal a novel depicting the Brutishness to which a group of schoolboys descend when they are stranded on a deserted island
15. To do things that are good, bad, sensible etc SYN act She behaved in a very responsible way. behave towards I think he behaved disgracefully towards you. behave like grown men Behaving like schoolboys behave as if/though He was a little boy, but he behaved as if he was an adult