How to Use lad in a Sentence

lad

noun
  • He's a good lad at heart.
  • They can't treat us like that, can they, lads?!
  • Life was hard when I was a lad.
  • Well, lad, I hope you won't make the same mistake again!
  • The lager lads tossed cheeky comments over the counter in a bid to win a smile.
    Hazlitt, 21 June 2023
  • But the lad wants to begin, so to speak, at the bottom.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 4 June 2022
  • Go around back, lad, use the tire swing on the old apple tree!
    George Saunders, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The lads kept working til the end, put our bodies on the line.
    Alicia Delgallo, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 Sep. 2017
  • The lad noticed just in time and the beak missed its target.
    Jonathan Myerson, The New York Review of Books, 4 May 2020
  • This is love between me and the lads, and it always will be.
    Danica Kirka, The Seattle Times, 19 Feb. 2019
  • The tables of lads on a big night out are no problem for her.
    Seven Graham, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
  • What a performance from the lads Thank you to the fans for sticking with us!
    Jordan Culver, Pro Soccer USA, 25 June 2019
  • These years as a disliked wee lad thickened my skin for the hate to come.
    Harris Mayersohn, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2020
  • The robo-lad's head is filled with dreams of alien life forms and the glories of space exploration.
    Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 15 May 2017
  • Of course, the giant statue of the pirate lad has a way of reeling them in, too.
    René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The players, the back-up staff, the physios, the kit man, the press officers, the canteen workers, the car park lads, the lot.
    SI.com, 16 Oct. 2017
  • No less absurd is the notion of its having been the fiefdom of a lad.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • There’s a little pond around the bottom of the anvil, and a fish pops up out of the pond and goes, ‘Put your back into it, lad.
    Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Back in the rural west of Ireland, this frail lad died of thwarted love for her.
    The Economist, 2 Dec. 2019
  • The lads would always be prepared to risk injury for these games.
    SI.com, 6 July 2018
  • The strawberries-and-cream hues are a nod to a little lad’s favorite dessert.
    Anne Cruz, Bon Appétit, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The dream of every lad that ever threw a leg over a thoroughbred and the goal of all horsemen.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The lad thought Meyer was going to the toilet, but he was never seen alive again.
    Adrian Higgins, The Seattle Times, 17 Sep. 2018
  • Time already seemed to have passed these lads by back in 1997, and matters have only grown worse.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2023
  • The drawing would precede a few other portraits of the lad and his mother.
    Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2020
  • So, in the interest of competition, can the lads (or girls) kick it out?
    Scott Springer, Cincinnati.com, 2 Sep. 2017
  • During the latter, rows of fans stand in line, link their arms and jump up and down the way British lads do at football matches.
    Eve Barlow, Billboard, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The trend started with aristocrats, but caught on with middle- and working-class lads as well.
    David Segal, New York Times, 1 July 2017
  • While the boys enjoy their lad's holiday, the girls will also get to know six new boys at the main villa.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 10 Aug. 2022
  • People had been asking him about a painting of a slender, shirtless lad.
    André Wheeler, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024

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