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 search for lads to play the young teen began a few months ago.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Go around back, lad, use the tire swing on the old apple tree!
    — George Saunders, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
  • A lot of the new lads signed early, which helped them to bed in.
    — Paul Taylor, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Even the way some of the balls are now, and the way some of these lads can hit the thing.
    — Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 4 May 2026
  • The tables of lads on a big night out are no problem for her.
    — Seven Graham, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The lads kept working til the end, put our bodies on the line.
    — Alicia Delgallo, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 Sep. 2017
  • These years as a disliked wee lad thickened my skin for the hate to come.
    — Harris Mayersohn, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2020
  • And all because of stories this very best lad had written!
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The lads would always be prepared to risk injury for these games.
    — SI.com, 6 July 2018
  • Dent wasn’t even 5 years old at the time, just a young lad in Australia.
    — Ron Kroichick, Houston Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Hurzeler had better hope his lads don’t fall behind.
    — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Most fatefully, one night when Alden was a lad, his mom drove him home while drunk.
    — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 24 Mar. 2025
  • No less absurd is the notion of its having been the fiefdom of a lad.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • This place was incredible, and got to enjoy it with some good lads.
    — Emily Krauser, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
  • What a performance from the lads Thank you to the fans for sticking with us!
    — Jordan Culver, Pro Soccer USA, 25 June 2019
  • 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
  • Something’s going on with the young lads that are asking for pictures of these girls.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 11 June 2025
  • The strawberries-and-cream hues are a nod to a little lad’s favorite dessert.
    — Anne Cruz, Bon Appétit, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Siiiiing me a soooong of a lad that is gooooone!
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The trend started with aristocrats, but caught on with middle- and working-class lads as well.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 1 July 2017
  • The drawing would precede a few other portraits of the lad and his mother.
    — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2020
  • 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 last magazine to call itself that was an early aughts British lad mag.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The lad thought Meyer was going to the toilet, but he was never seen alive again.
    — Adrian Higgins, The Seattle Times, 17 Sep. 2018
  • Events like those depicted in an ad where a lad is sent out to buy a loaf of Hovis bread.
    — John Rash, Star Tribune, 20 Nov. 2020

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