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.
• Like all good rock ’n’ roll childhoods, I was sent away to boarding school in my midteens.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2021
• Most of all the Paul children attended a boarding school at some point.
  — USA Today, 24 Oct. 2021
• Thomas Sibick was a star lacrosse player at his military boarding school.
  — Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2021
• That could be things like the death of a loved one, parents getting divorced, or being forced to go away to boarding school.
  — Eleesha Lockett, SELF, 8 Nov. 2021
• She was taken from her parents to the boarding school in Pipestone at age 12.
  — Melissa Olson, Twin Cities, 28 Oct. 2024
• Much of her childhood was then spent either at a boarding school or traveling around Europe with her family for her sister’s health.
  — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 24 Oct. 2021
• Gstaad is home to the winter campus of the Institu Le Rosey, the most expensive boarding school in the world.
  — Spencer Elliott, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
• Thousands of Indigenous children from Wisconsin attended these boarding schools, some because their parents hoped for a better life for their children.
  — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2024
• Deciding whether or not to attend boarding school can be daunting for both students and parents, given that attending boarding school—unlike public or private day schools—requires a complete lifestyle shift.
  — Christopher Rim, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
• At the height of the boarding school era, Arizona had 59 schools.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2024
• Most of the instances took place at the elite boarding school.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2021
• At the outset of World War II, she was sent away to a boarding school.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 15 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: 14 Dec 2024