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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
Listen to this article A nonprofit advocacy group has urged that Connecticut students no longer be placed at a boarding school for students with autism after an investigation revealed allegations of abuse and neglect at the private program in New York.
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Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2024
The Reading Abbey Girls’ School This all-girls boarding school in England produced a generation of accomplished female writers in the eighteenth century.
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JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
Selim was sent to study at a Jesuit boarding school outside Beirut.
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Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
Returning director Chris Renaud crams in a new villain, a teenage protégé, several visits to Gru’s old boarding school, a heist (to steal a ferocious honey badger) and a hasty attempt to put the family into the witness protection program (imagine Gru trying to blend in with the country club crowd).
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Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 June 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 7 Jul. 2024.
Kids Definition
boarding school
noun
: a school at which most of the pupils live during the school term
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