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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While Best was too cool, and Charlton too straight, Law was the cheeky and abrasive lad, forever grateful to be on the pitch and giving everything.
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Sam Pilger, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
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Sam Pilger, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
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“Lad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lad. Accessed 20 Mar. 2025.
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noun1
: boy sense 1, youth
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