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Examples of boarding school in a Sentence
He attended a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts.
She was sent to boarding school when she was nine.
Recent Examples on the Web
After months of languishing in an abusive boarding school in Jamaica — where boys said they were beaten, waterboarded, starved and whipped — Michigan teenager Elijah Goldman begged to come home.
—Tresa Baldas, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2024
Andrea Bocelli Celebrating Three Decades in Music with 3-Day Concert Event and Concert Film
Elsewhere in the documentary, Bocelli opened up about the soccer accident in boarding school that left him blind as a young boy.
—Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2024
Investing in remedies to the present-day impacts of the federal Indian boarding school system.
—Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 30 July 2024
Training ‘model Americans’ Of all the U.S. efforts to assimilate Native Americans, none was more notorious than the Indian boarding schools.
—Kerri Malloy, The Conversation, 25 July 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1665, in the meaning defined above
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“Boarding school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boarding%20school. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
Kids Definition
boarding school
noun
: a school at which most of the pupils live during the school term
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