How to Use choirboy in a Sentence

choirboy

noun

• To this end Mr Bellamy, with the clean-cut looks of a choirboy, was an apt choice.
  — The Economist, 29 June 2019
• Wilson’s choirboy tenor given new grit and the rhythm section bearing down like a steamroller.
  — Morgan Enos, Billboard, 2 Aug. 2019
• Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Apr. 2018
• One of the former choirboys was the key prosecution witness.
  — Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019
• Nas paced around the vocal booth listening to the playback, holding his hands together in front of himself like a choirboy.
  — New York Times, 7 July 2021
• The father of the dead choirboy, neither of whom can be named, attended the court hearing on Wednesday, the father lawyer's Lisa Flynn said before the hearing.
  — NBC News, 13 Mar. 2019
• The father of the dead choirboy, neither of whom can be named, attended the court hearing on Wednesday, the father lawyer’s Lisa Flynn said before the hearing.
  — Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019
• Many fans of the folk-rock, choirboy-harmony-loving Seattle band thought this moment might never come.
  — Dan Hyman, GQ, 12 June 2017
• The second choirboy died from an accidental overdose after years of drug abuse.
  — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 17 Sep. 2019
• Also interviewed is the 12-year-old choirboy left to sing solo when his colleagues, seemingly overwhelmed by the moment, lost their voices.
  — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian, 12 Jan. 2018
• The other choirboy did not make public accusations against Cardinal Pell.
  — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
• Holden starts as a textbook Groff character: neat, bookish, pretty, an F.B.I. choirboy who becomes a teacher and researcher after a hostage situation goes wrong.
  — K. Austin Collins, HWD, 14 June 2018
• Christopher Smith’s photographs are technically self-portraits, though each evokes someone else: a sullen detective, a naked gladiator, a flapper, an inmate, a sword swallower, a cowboy, a choirboy, a corpse.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 18 July 2019
• With his sterling reputation as a local athlete, choirboy, Boy Scout and honor student with no prior arrests, Mr. Artis also drew the support of celebrities, journalists, civil liberties figures and others.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
• With unprecedented access to the artist, the documentary follows Lightfoot’s evolution from Christian choirboy to troubled troubadour to international star and beloved Canadian icon.
  — Dave Brooks, Billboard, 12 Oct. 2020

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