How to Use elementary school in a Sentence

elementary school

noun
  • Two elementary schools had merged and, at the time, the specter of other closures loomed.
    Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But the worst of the congestion seems to be building north of Route 181, where new subdivisions have popped up and a new elementary school opened this year.
    John Sharp | , al, 14 Apr. 2023
  • At a local elementary school the reptile took up residence and claimed the area in one parking spot.
    Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Its three founders, who have known each other since elementary school, are figuring out what to do with it next.
    Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 13 May 2024
  • The mother of the 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher at a Virginia elementary school, has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for felony offenses.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
  • In the area of Buffalo where the boy was struck, remote trains run near dozens of houses, a neighborhood park and an elementary school.
    Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 27 May 2024
  • The school district will discuss safety plans with students at the elementary school.
    Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Redick has never been a coach at any level above elementary school.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2024
  • Kansas City Public Schools closed down two elementary schools at the beginning of this school year.
    Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The two elementary school students were placed in the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice.
    Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Although she's been in the music industry for more than three decades, the singer threw it back even further — sharing a snap of herself at elementary school age in the post.
    Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 2 July 2023
  • About 84% of parents and 81% of staff surveyed think the elementary school policy does not need an update.
    Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 17 June 2024
  • His dad owned a car dealership; his mom taught elementary school.
    Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Jade often posts photos of her daughters who are both in elementary school and are close to one another.
    Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 29 July 2024
  • Abrams’ children’s book tells the story of a student in elementary school who decides to take action after discovering that some classmates can’t afford to buy the taco and pizza lunch that the other kids are enjoying.
    Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2024

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