How to Use grammar school in a Sentence

grammar school

noun
  • Children came from all walks of life to the grammar school.
    Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Its treasured grammar schools are among the best in the country.
    The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Yeah, the days may be gone when a team gives up three ones for a kid who hasn’t thrown a pass since grammar school.
    Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2021
  • O’Donnell was born in Lemont, but spent half her grammar school years in Shorewood.
    Tony Baranek, chicagotribune.com, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Many of us learned in grammar school that this was a dangerous step that threatened the rule of law.
    Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 29 July 2021
  • Almost all of these guys had been stars in college, high school, grammar school.
    Rich Cohen, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Ron came to love cross-country racing, became captain of his town’s grammar school team and set the record on the school’s course.
    Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 9 June 2021
  • He was bemused by that calling, spawned in his grammar school years in New Jersey.
    Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2020
  • His father was a high school football coach, and his mother taught grammar school.
    Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 July 2022
  • But in Trump’s mouth, the words were just words, like those of a substitute grammar school teacher reading from the textbook to fill the time and distract the kids.
    Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2019
  • Lemont coach Christine Traina was hosting a summer camp for grammar school kids.
    Tony Baranek, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2022
  • The series follows two teen boys, Nick and Charlie, who meet at a British grammar school, quickly become friends and fall in love.
    Mary Cadden, USA TODAY, 15 June 2022
  • Nineteen years ago, Lands’ End founder Gary Comer returned to his grammar school.
    Shelbie Lynn Bostedt, RedEye Chicago, 26 July 2017
  • His page also lists him as a 1989 graduate of the same grammar school his sons attended.
    Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 13 Dec. 2019
  • His was a family that looked askance at his early yen – while still in grammar school – to become a radio star.
    Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2021
  • My grandmother was a seamstress and taught me to sew in the afternoons after grammar school.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2023
  • The petite shop is located just over a covered bridge between the town bakery and grammar school.
    Austin Carr, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
  • The two met in grammar school in the Junior Argonauts girls basketball program in Summit.
    Tony Baranek, Daily Southtown, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Arundel played in grammar school with Stagg’s Abbey Hobart, who is also opening up some eyes.
    Tony Baranek, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Pena insists that his path to success, power, and money started in grammar school, when he was forced to wear a dunce hat.
    Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2021
  • On average, the results of children at private or grammar schools were a full GCSE grade higher than those at state schools.
    The Economist, 26 Mar. 2018
  • When Charles Coolidge was growing up outside Chattanooga, his grammar school class received a visit from Sgt.
    New York Times, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Nile Rodgers's would make any grammar school teacher proud with textbook-perfect letters.
    Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • The buildings once housed the German-English School and later a grammar school, high school, college and Hemisfair offices.
    Madison Iszler, ExpressNews.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • William Woodward and his wife, Abigail Cutter, started a free public grammar school for poor students in 1831.
    Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Senior libero Gigi Navarrete, who has played with White since grammar school, watched the transition with amazement.
    Tony Baranek, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Harnick had a penchant for humorous verse, and his work appeared in his grammar school and high school newspapers.
    Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 June 2023
  • His mother worked in one of the houses as a prostitute, and when the nuns at his Catholic grammar school discovered the nature of the family business, he was expelled.
    Mike Miller, PEOPLE.com, 9 Feb. 2018
  • The goal of the grammar school was to sift through British society in order to find smart children, regardless of their social or economic background.
    Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The two were school sweethearts, having attended grammar school and Towson Catholic High School together.
    Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 17 Dec. 2020

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