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
• People had been asking him about a painting of a slender, shirtless lad.
  — André Wheeler, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
• Though its halfway over, Fontaines D.C.’s massive tour is still ongoing and will keep the Irish lads on the road until this year concludes.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024