How to Use elementary school in a Sentence
elementary school
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One of the strikes hit a civilian area, close to an elementary school.
— Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2022 -
Two elementary schools had merged and, at the time, the specter of other closures loomed.
— Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2024 -
More back to school news:Some elementary schools end in fifth grade, some in eighth.
— Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 31 July 2024 -
The 21 white crosses, each bearing the name of a victim, are front of the Uvalde elementary school.
— Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Oct. 2022 -
In the fall, the sisters will start at a new elementary school in the Parma school district.
— Hannah Drown, cleveland, 26 Dec. 2022 -
Matter of fact, most of us in my elementary school had lunch cards.
— Udonis Haslem, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024 -
But the district has to figure out what to do about the district’s many elementary schools.
— Talia Richman, Dallas News, 25 Aug. 2023 -
The students in my class, and their peers, were then somewhere in elementary school.
— Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2022 -
In the worst school shooting last year, 21 people were killed in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
— Scott McFetridge, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Jan. 2023 -
Reid pointed out that the area elementary school, Oakton, has the highest rates of poverty in the city.
— Alex Hulvalchick, Chicago Tribune, 13 Dec. 2022 -
Yoo first tasted the cake in elementary school in Queens, on a day students were asked to bring in a dish from their heritage.
— Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2023 -
By the time Hansen was in elementary school, in the ’70s, both products were ubiquitous.
— Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 20 May 2024 -
Dozens of protesters lined the road leading to the elementary school where Biden spoke.
— Akayla Gardner, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022 -
Winds of 160 miles per hour destroyed an elementary school and ripped high-school bleachers from the ground.
— Colbi Edmonds, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2023 -
Since my elementary school days, movement has become a source of joy in my life.
— Danielle Friedman, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024 -
The school opens at a time when many Catholic elementary schools across the nation are declining.
— Allison Kiehl, The Enquirer, 31 July 2024 -
By the end of elementary school, to Dalton’s relief, the stutter had faded away.
— Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023 -
The last school the oldest boy, 15, attended was an elementary school, Vaughn said.
— Hillary Borrud | , oregonlive, 13 Apr. 2023 -
Biden has said the law passed last year after a deadly mass shooting in a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school didn’t go far enough.
— Colleen Long and Linley Sanders, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023 -
But at least for a while, those steps into her elementary school marked a harder life, not a better one.
— A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez, Parents, 18 Jan. 2024 -
At an elementary school in New Taipei City, the city that surrounds Taipei, voters young and old came early despite the rain.
— Arkansas Online, 27 Nov. 2022 -
Broward County, Florida is in the midst of a measles outbreak in an elementary school.
— Mark Kortepeter, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024 -
And just this past week, three 9-year-olds and three adults were shot and killed at an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee.
— Mary Clare Jalonick, Chron, 1 Apr. 2023 -
Naloxone is not yet in the district's elementary schools.
— The Indianapolis Star, 4 Jan. 2024 -
Trudeau announced the freeze in May, a week after 19 children were killed in a school shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
— Celina Tebor, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2022 -
Last month, a 10-year-old boy walked into the nurse’s office of his elementary school in Highland, N.Y., and asked for some Vaseline.
— Kristi Berner, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2022 -
That program became the first elementary school cricket league in the U.S.
— Shanelle Kaul, CBS News, 8 June 2024 -
Now the producer is giving kids in the country a jump on life by funding an elementary school near Guatemala City.
— Katie Bain, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2023 -
How about adding an extra year of elementary school for these students?
— Michael J. Petrilli, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024 -
When Branch's grandpa brought Shakespeare into their lives, both Branch and his younger sister were still in elementary school.
— Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
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