How to Use grade school in a Sentence

grade school

noun
  • So all of the grade schools, all of the middle schools and all of the high schools.
    Sarah Larimer, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Steve was kind of like the kids in grade school and the boy pulling your pigtails.
    Jason Scott, Billboard, 30 June 2018
  • Many of the Sixers, who are the second-youngest team in the league, were still in grade school.
    Shandel Richardson, Sun-Sentinel.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • In grade school, Sandy still dressed like a boy and used her male birth name.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2021
  • The players found ways on their own to get to the grade school for practices.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 11 Sep. 2020
  • So most of our guys were in grade school when that happened.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Williams is still in her car, in front of a grade school, waiting on Miss Olympia.
    Danyel Smith, Essence, 16 Oct. 2024
  • My mom had a chance to finish grade school; my dad wasn’t so lucky.
    Luke Broadwater, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The kids start ski and mountain-bike racing in grade school.
    Tracy Ross, Outside Online, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The resolution rails against the use of the ACT Aspire as the test used to grade schools.
    Trisha Powell Crain, AL.com, 4 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • Enter Buffy, the comforter that makes me gush like a sixth-grade school girl with a crush.
    Danielle Tullo, House Beautiful, 27 Aug. 2018
  • Is this your boss’s daughter or is this your best friend from grade school?
    Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Chávez has been out there pretty much since grade school.
    René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 19 Nov. 2020
  • All kindergarten through 12th-grade schools have been closed since March 17.
    Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 21 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • The avowed co-conspirator in the scheme has known Sanders since both were in grade school.
    Mike Hendricks and Steve Vockrodt, kansascity, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Glass had known the patriarch’s wife since grade school.
    Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
  • George was the uncle of a classmate of mine in grade school, also named George Lennon.
    Philly.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • The two-story building south of downtown was built in 1892 as a grade school.
    Steve Brown, Dallas News, 18 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • Think back to grade school and the days of walking on the balance beam, or doing jump rope, or four square.
    Peter San Nicolas, Ramona Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Both are 33 and grew up in Seven Hills and have known each other since grade school.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 3 Aug. 2020
  • That started off young, in middle school, in grade school.
    Colleen Kane, chicagotribune.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • His old friend Nora from his grade school days is in the hospital puking up blood.
    Laura Bradley, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024

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