schoolfellow in a sentence
pronunciation: [ [ 'sku:lfeləʊ ] ]
Examples
- Jim Carrey's chipped tooth is genuine, resulting from a tussle with a schoolfellow in his boyhood, but he had since had it capped.
- He took, in company with an old schoolfellow called Richard Tylden, a lengthy tour in France, the Low Countries, Germany, and Switzerland.
- It is a talent unappreciated by his schoolfellows, since he generally uses it to make mischief, or, opportunistically, to get himself out of trouble.
- The monitorial system of teaching was employed, whereby the masters taught only the monitors who in turn passed on the instruction they had received to their schoolfellows.
- He was introduced by a schoolfellow, the count Claude d'Avaux, to Gaston, Duke of Orl�ans, and accompanied him to Brussels and Lorraine on diplomatic missions.
- Lillard believed that " One American boy in a French community for a summer brings home a new understanding of French tradition and ideals, which he communicates to his schoolfellows.
- Sherlock became Bishop of Bangor in 1728; he was afterwards translated to Parliament he gave good service to his old schoolfellow, Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- He may have also played the male lead in " Romeo and Juliet ", as reported later in an 1860 memoir by his schoolfellow, Dr . James McCune Smith.
- His next appearance in London was at the Queen's Theatre, Tottenham Street on 16 February 1835, as Horace Meredith in Douglas William Jerrold's comedy, " Schoolfellows ."
- He used to tell his pupils stories about the fictional Jennings ( based however on an old schoolfellow Diarmid Jennings ), a prep schoolboy boarding at Linbury Court Preparatory School, under headmaster Mr Pemberton-Oakes.