Examples of lad in a Sentence
Life was hard when I was a lad.
Well, lad, I hope you won't make the same mistake again!
He's a good lad at heart.
They can't treat us like that, can they, lads?!
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Ford’s actually relatively locked-in as the gruff but supportive Colonel Graff training the impressionable Ender (Asa Butterfield), who has to save the universe as all lads in these types of films tend to do.
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Tim Grierson, Vulture, 18 Feb. 2025
Clearly, a tiny minority of lads will make it but nearly all will be a way of sourcing a cut of a government education grant … Anybody seen anything worth reading on this?
—Stuart James, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
The aftermath brought more mind-boggling popularity for the Liverpool lads—and a turning point for rock ’n’ roll.
—Sarah Holzmann, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Feb. 2025
Wes Brown was a Manchester lad who continued to get a bus to training.
—Andy Mitten, The Athletic, 2 Feb. 2025
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Tim Grierson, Vulture, 18 Feb. 2025
Clearly, a tiny minority of lads will make it but nearly all will be a way of sourcing a cut of a government education grant … Anybody seen anything worth reading on this?
—Stuart James, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
The aftermath brought more mind-boggling popularity for the Liverpool lads—and a turning point for rock ’n’ roll.
—Sarah Holzmann, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Feb. 2025
Wes Brown was a Manchester lad who continued to get a bus to training.
—Andy Mitten, The Athletic, 2 Feb. 2025
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“Lad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lad. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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lad
noun1
: boy sense 1, youth
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