How to Use academic year in a Sentence

academic year

noun
  • Schools have been canceled for the rest of the academic year.
    Craig Welch, National Geographic, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Schools were shut down as well for the remainder of the academic year to slow the spread of the virus.
    Adam Brewster, CBS News, 14 May 2020
  • The attack on the school comes just two weeks into the start of the new academic year.
    Francis Ajumane and Eoin McSweeney, CNN, 26 Oct. 2020
  • Children spent the end of the last academic year at home.
    The Economist, 7 Nov. 2020
  • The academic year for the Ducks and Beavers doesn’t end until the second week of June.
    oregonlive, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Indiana is the 11th state to close schools for the remainder of the academic year.
    Akeem Glaspie, Indianapolis Star, 3 Apr. 2020
  • The city plans to launch it near the end of the academic year for students in elementary through high school.
    BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The start of a new academic year meant making changes, and fast, to students' routines.
    USA Today, 11 Sep. 2020
  • No one has been in the school since Gov. Whitmer ordered them closed for the remainder of the academic year.
    Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 18 Apr. 2020
  • But their opposition to the war didn’t end with the academic year.
    Charles Blow, The Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Schools, however, will remain closed through the end of the academic year.
    BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The shutdown could last longer: and a handful of other states have already canceled school for the rest of the academic year.
    Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2020
  • The team did log the flyers as a hate and bias incident, which will appear in a public report at the end of the academic year.
    Cristian Martinez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The full set of guidelines will be put into effect at the beginning of the academic year in 2025.
    Marissa Yelenik, Baltimore Sun, 15 Nov. 2024
  • For two students sharing a dorm room over an eight-month academic year, that works out to more than $2,500 a month to rent one room.
    Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The long search forced schools to close at the start of the academic year, led to warnings for homeowners to lock their doors, and blocked roads over the busy Labor Day weekend.
    Maryclaire Dale, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The long search led to school closures right at the start of the academic year, warnings for homeowners to lock their doors and blocked roads over the busy Labor Day weekend.
    Maryclaire Dale, Marc Levy and Michael Rubinkam, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Students make up about a fifth of the city’s population during the academic year.
    Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Malone said Emerson’s move to the hotel — a move made at the last minute after the start of the 2019 academic year was delayed — was out of character.
    Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Hess and about 50 other Hillsboro teachers completed the first half of the training over the summer and will complete the second half by the end of the academic year.
    oregonlive, 25 Dec. 2022
  • His current contract, which was extended in May 2023, ran through the end of next academic year.
    Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 26 Dec. 2024
  • The middle school is one of six debuting this academic year in Prince George’s County.
    Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Schools also returned to full-time, in-person instruction at the start of the new academic year in August.
    James T. Norman, chicagotribune.com, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The beginning of a new academic year brings a revamped marching band program to UC Davis.
    Heather Kemp, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Thus far, a few dozen educators have come to learn more about Squads, and last academic year, a Seattle charter school took up the method.
    Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 13 May 2024
  • Schools in Virginia, Maryland and the District are closed for the rest of the academic year, but remote learning is underway.
    Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 8 May 2020
  • Moments after that, the Big Ten halted all competition through the end of the academic year.
    David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 13 Sep. 2020
  • Parker Elementary, with a student body of roughly 300 children, was one of two schools that closed at the end of the last academic year.
    Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2022
  • California used students’ home addresses that were on file at their schools at the start of the academic year in 2020 to mail the cards, Mascia said.
    Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2023
  • The ban, part of her upcoming budget proposal requiring legislative approval, would take effect in the next academic year.
    Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025

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