How to Use paperboy in a Sentence

paperboy

noun

• Hazelwood took great pride in his role as the paperboy who grew up to own the historic venue.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 3 Mar. 2021
• In this movie, Christian Bale stars as a paperboy who leads the newsboy strike of 1899.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 31 Jan. 2023
• Soon enough, a paperboy comes barreling down the street on his bike.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 20 May 2022
• Fortunately for the paperboy, the Z-car would get quicker and safer in only a few years.
  — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 15 Sep. 2020
• Paulsen was a soldier, a truck driver, a paperboy, an actor, an alcoholic (sober for the last 50 years of his life).
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 21 Jan. 2022
• Compare it to the plight of the newspaper paperboy on his paper route, the iconic part-time job of 20th century teenage boys.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2017
• That conversation brought the whole thing flooding back for McLean, who was a 13-year-old paperboy when Holly died.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 28 June 2022
• At least Frankenstein looked scary; Mr. Zuckerberg looks like my paperboy.
  — WSJ, 4 Apr. 2018
• The neighborhood paperboy, 12-year-old Edward Vernon, is bribed by the husband of the other shooting victim to go to the police.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland, 5 Oct. 2022
• Adult paperboys and papergirls then made the rounds via bicycle.
  — Jack Nicas, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2017
• That witness, Bob Walker, 68, was at the time a 13-year-old paperboy who was first upon the scene, and his account differed from official versions of what happened.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2021
• Rough Point estate, which has resonated in the seaside tourist mecca, is being challenged by a witness — the paperboy.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2021
• The book is a dramatized tale about a paperboy who uses simple principles to create his own business step-by-step.
  — Rolling Stone, 25 May 2021
• In a paperboy cap and a ponytail, with a gold chain terminating in a solid-gold revolver-as-emblem, Ice-T is—as always—holding his own.
  — Wyatt Mason, Esquire, 7 June 2017
• Growing up in Detroit, Parker worked as a paperboy in middle school, a drugstore clerk in high school and a mail carrier in college and graduate school.
  — Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 1 July 2020
• A few years later, the milk carton campaign began after the disappearance of two Iowa paperboys.
  — Megan Abbott, New York Times, 1 May 2020
• No, Clyde Roach was not a columnist, or affiliated with the media company except as a paperboy as a child.
  — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 26 May 2017
• But detectives had obtained a statement from a local paperboy, 12-year-old Eddie Vernon, who knew the Bridgemans and Jackson.
  — Annie Flanagan, Smithsonian, 29 Jan. 2017
• For the next half-century, milk trucks traced the streets of America, bringing fresh bottles to doorsteps daily the same way paperboys delivered newspapers and mail carriers brought letters and packages.
  — jsonline.com, 7 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024