How to Use boarding school in a Sentence

boarding school

noun

• She was sent to boarding school when she was nine.
• He attended a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts.
• Most of the instances took place at the elite boarding school.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2021
• At the height of the boarding school era, Arizona had 59 schools.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2024
• Those acts landed the teen in numerous boarding schools.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 11 Sep. 2024
• He had been forced to attend a boarding school where his native tongue was forbidden.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2022
• At the outset of World War II, she was sent away to a boarding school.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 15 Jan. 2022
• He was raped by older male students in a Native boarding school as a 10-year-old.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 16 Jan. 2022
• Byrne was subsequently sent to boarding school, and Murray, who had warrants for petty crimes at the time, was almost put in a boys’ home.
  — Garret Daly, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2022
• Over the years, the castle has served as the home of noble families and later housed a textile school and boarding school for children with disabilities.
  — Allix Cott, Architectural Digest, 18 Oct. 2024
• Most of the instances took place at the elite boarding school — a community where teachers often live on campus and are easily accessible to students.
  — Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2021
• The boarding schools were designed to assimilate Indigenous children.
  — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2024
• Or that Wednesday is set at a boarding school for outcasts, monsters, and practitioners of magic—shades of Harry Potter.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 10 Oct. 2024
• In early 2011, news broke that Earl’s mother, troubled by her son’s behavioral problems, had enrolled him in a boarding school in Samoa.
  — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2022
• In this boarding school, the living are scarier than the ghosts.
  — Emiliano Granada, Variety, 6 Apr. 2022
• As a teen-ager, Pamela pleaded to be sent to boarding school.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
• The pair has known each other since Catholic boarding school.
  — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
• The boarding school era lasted for more than 150 years.
  — Jessica Hopper, ABC News, 31 Mar. 2022
• In this year’s rankings, the K-12 day and boarding school in Sheridan came in third.
  — oregonlive, 21 Sep. 2022
• In high school, Whaley went to an all-girls Catholic boarding school about an hour and a half away.
  — Henry J. Gomez & Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 27 Feb. 2022
• The panelists asked how many of the attendees in the room had also been made to go to a boarding school.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 July 2022
• The Culver Academies, a top-notch private boarding school for grades 9-12, is in the heart of the town.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2024
• He was sent to a private boarding school at 12 and rarely heard from his parents.
  — Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
• Kalari Rasayana has the feel of a sanatorium merged with a strict boarding school.
  — Jane Alexander, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Feb. 2024
• The girls’ boarding school in Chibok, miles behind them, had been set on fire.
  — Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2024
• At the age of thirteen, Rushdie was sent off to Rugby, a centuries-old British boarding school.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• We were put into boarding schools and we were told to reform.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2024
• Willie is sent to boarding school and is caught stealing food on campus one night.
  — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 19 Jan. 2022
• And then the other thing about the boarding school offered was boarding in the world of the Addams Family.
  — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2022
• At age 6, Sister Guèbrou was sent to a boarding school in Switzerland.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024