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
  • The players found ways on their own to get to the grade school for practices.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 11 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Glass had known the patriarch’s wife since grade school.
    Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Two are adults moving into the college world, and two are in grade school.
    Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Paula took to the woods in grade school as a refuge from the chaos of alcoholic parents and too many siblings.
    Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 6 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • Two sons, both in grade school, do worksheets and shoot baskets on a hoop that hooks over a door in the basement.
    Michelle Krupa, CNN, 22 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • Play: There’s always the nostalgic thrill of playing Myst for the first time since grade school.
    Melina Delkic, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2020
  • The couple met in grade school and shared their first kiss when Keith was in seventh grade and Sherri was in eighth.
    Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 22 June 2024

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