How to Use homeroom in a Sentence

homeroom

noun
  • He was late for homeroom.
  • They were assigned to different homerooms.
  • There's a new girl in school this year who's in my homeroom.
    Sarah Todd Hammer, Seventeen, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The top two homerooms who advanced to the finals were Mrs. Fenton's class and Mr. Brown's class.
    Charlene Paparizos, cleveland.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Dave, a kid in my homeroom, same height, blond like me, is somehow fat and skinny at the same time.
    Matthew Klam, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
  • The winning homeroom class was Ms. Schnear’s, with 333 pairs of socks!
    Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Kids will stay with their homeroom class and be assigned to outside zones.
    Ayana Archie, The Courier-Journal, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The show takes places in the high school world of basketball, homeroom and science decathlon.
    Bob Kostanczuk, Post-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The nightgowned granny stalking a high school homeroom.
    Lesley Finn, Longreads, 7 July 2022
  • One of the last teachers to see the boy was Amanda Toma, his homeroom teacher at Mountain View.
    oregonlive, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Kyron did not report to his homeroom and has not been seen since that morning.
    oregonlive, 2 June 2023
  • Gittins was in his homeroom, down the hall from the cafeteria, when the gunfire erupted.
    Brenda Cain, cleveland, 3 June 2022
  • Students swing their backpacks over their shoulder, board the school bus, make their way to their homeroom and the bell rings—school is back in session.
    Charlie Lapastora, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2018
  • His ninth-grade homeroom teacher was a soon-to-be famous singer named Roberta Flack.
    Washington Post, 8 June 2021
  • The women of Crazyhead are also out of high school, so prom dances and homeroom bells are replaced with booty calls and dead-end jobs.
    Lincoln Michel, GQ, 24 June 2017
  • In fifth grade my homeroom teacher was William Younger, a prim, rather humorless man.
    Dahlia Bazzaz, The Seattle Times, 3 May 2017
  • Most came as money dropped into collection cans that were placed in the homerooms.
    Elizabeth Marie Himchak, Pomerado News, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Amari Aaron, an eighth grader at the school, had Mr. Braddy for homeroom and algebra.
    Ashley Southall and Nate Schweber, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
  • A day in the life Students start their day with homeroom class, which includes the Pledge of Allegiance and roll call to count attendance.
    Steven Lindsey, Dallas News, 10 Jan. 2023
  • My favorite memory, the one that sticks out, is my seventh-grade homeroom one field day.
    Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2018
  • Holly Golden Simmel’s son, a junior, was exposed to the virus twice on his first day, in homeroom and in a science class.
    New York Times, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Alvin Wills evolved the homeroom basketball program at the middle school into pick-up games at night.
    Anthony Gharib, USA TODAY, 12 July 2023
  • High schoolers across Colorado can take college classes down the hall from their homerooms.
    Melissa Korn, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017
  • This 8-year-old had big dreams, his homeroom teacher Ella Portteus said.
    Vic Ryckaert, Indianapolis Star, 3 Apr. 2020
  • At various points during the winter, children had to be moved to different wings of the building when the heat in their homerooms died.
    Mark Binelli, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2017
  • While each t-shirt had the same design, every eighth-grade homeroom had a different color.
    Charlene Paparizos, cleveland.com, 11 May 2018
  • Molique sat at a large desk built for science experiments in homeroom.
    Julia Fair, The Enquirer, 2 Oct. 2020
  • The boy was a model student, said Chau, who taught him U.S. history and also was his homeroom teacher.
    Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Only three of the 20 students in her homeroom have sufficient internet access at home.
    Madeleine Ngo, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • After changing classes to avoid bullying from her peers, her daughter found herself in a homeroom with a history teacher who displayed a Palestinian flag and posters calling for a cease-fire.
    Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024

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