How to Use grade school in a Sentence

grade school

noun
  • In grade school, Sandy still dressed like a boy and used her male birth name.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2021
  • All because of the grade school children an ocean away.
    Judy Berlfein, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Here’s the sixth and final unit reader of the second grade school year.
    Trisha Powell Crain | Tcrain@al.com, al, 20 June 2023
  • Friends that will go through grade school, middle school and high school with us.
    Loren Braunohler, CNN, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Three hours later, flames were visible in the steeple of the old grade school.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 20 July 2022
  • Is this your boss’s daughter or is this your best friend from grade school?
    Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Carmen’s head is still down, arms wrapped around her ears like a kid in grade school.
    Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Back in grade school, Ron and I had been considered cool.
    Marc Myers, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Once, in grade school, Frank and I came across a small shark caught by a fisherman with a rod and reel.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • Now, some have argued that the flag should be so plain and simple that a grade school child can draw it.
    Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 11 Jan. 2024
  • That started off young, in middle school, in grade school.
    Colleen Kane, chicagotribune.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Two are adults moving into the college world, and two are in grade school.
    Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2023
  • My first taste of this lightly spiced roll was at my kids’ grade school, St. Louis in Owensville, Ohio many years ago.
    Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Mando had played the keyboard in his uncles’ band in grade school.
    Cat Cardenas, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2023
  • While in grade school, his family had to move out of its house due to flooding.
    oregonlive, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Her daughter was later baptized in the Catholic church that runs the prekindergarten-to eighth-grade school.
    BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2021
  • There is also a mural across the street from Messi’s old grade school.
    Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Back in grade school, I was teased for oiling my hair and always wearing a braid.
    Maliya Naz, Allure, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Siegel and DeMichele met years ago when their children both attended the same grade school.
    Jordyn Noennig, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 June 2021
  • The current Moeller players gracing the field Wednesday were still in grade school.
    Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 24 June 2021
  • In the time Polito first ran with Baker on the 2014 ticket to now, her children have gone from grade school to teenagers in high school.
    Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Henderson grew up in Las Vegas, where the theater bug bit in grade school.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2022
  • There are stories of people who met in grade school that reconnect in their fifties.
    Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Behind it, the family lived in three rooms, and true to his word, A.J. dropped out of grade school to work various odd jobs.
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2022
  • My late parents, whose rocky divorce occurred in the 1970s when their three children were still in grade school, didn’t agree on much.
    Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Your first big film vehicle was Billy Madison, about a guy forced by his dad to go back to grade school.
    Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Jan. 2023
  • On her first day of grade school, Siona recalls sitting next to a white classmate who drew a line between them and told her not to cross it.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2022
  • But the early United States was nonetheless ahead of many other countries in the breadth of its grade schools.
    David Leonhardt, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Contrary to what many Americans are taught in grade school, Christopher Columbus was not the one to demonstrate that the Earth is round.
    Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Not bad for someone who played almost exclusively in the post as the tallest player on her grade school teams.
    Brian Haenchen, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Nov. 2022

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