How to Use middle school in a Sentence

middle school

noun
  • The new middle school building opened in the fall of 2020.
    Brian Lisik, cleveland, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The memorial, consisting of two stone benches, is placed near the middle school.
    Fox News, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Jaques had once attended a school in the same county as the middle school, according to prosecutors.
    Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Robert was economic director for the city, and Maureen was an art teacher at the local middle school.
    CBS News, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Brion Logan, 22, of Georgia, described himself as Jones’ best friend in middle school.
    Antonio Planas, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Many middle school science standards don’t explicitly mention climate change.
    Megan Specia, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Butler, seen here on a mural at a middle school that bears her name, is celebrated for novels that grappled with extremism, racial justice and the climate crisis.
    Lynell George, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
  • TikTok after TikTok, stylish women are recommending a return to our middle school-mall staple for straight leg jeans.
    Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The play will feature 25 elementary and middle school students from all over Boston performing music, dance, and poetry.
    Maya Homan, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2022
  • And most start in high school, not middle school, to prep their kids for the process.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2023
  • The parents and Cuong Tran and Huy Tran have been friends since middle school, the law firm says.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Their 11-year-old twin boys will get a phone in middle school, too.
    Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Back then, middle school sucked the little joy there was out of life.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2023
  • The teacher had worked at the middle school for nearly 30 years.
    Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The key is to start young—around middle school or even earlier.
    Monika Mueller, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The board at the time also opted to change a middle school's mascot.
    Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY, 9 May 2024
  • The new policy required the school to accept 1.5% of the eighth-grade class at each of the district’s middle schools.
    USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
  • His father still has a copy of the letter Terrence wrote in middle school to...
    Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Ethan was a student at the middle school and Samantha was a graduate of the high school.
    Jennifer Edwards Baker, The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2023
  • At that time, the student was playing on a middle school girls’ soccer team.
    Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The high school and a neighboring middle school is closed Friday, the district said.
    Antonio Planas, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Gabrielle Johnson said middle school was the toughest stage.
    Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The sleepless nights ahead, the tantrums and book reports and standardized tests and the million ways that kids in middle school are mean.
    Allegra Goodman, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Faced with a constrained budget, the district shuttered the middle school.
    Becca Savransky, ProPublica, 6 Sep. 2023
  • But there are kids here now who were in middle school when Greenwood made that semistate run.
    Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Feb. 2023
  • She was teased in middle school for her accent and for receiving a free lunch.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Karon Blake, 13, was shot in the Brookland neighborhood, near his middle school.
    Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Raised in Newport Beach, Colin first met Hotchkiss in middle school.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 22 May 2024
  • The stuff of our middle school daydreams is reality for Zoë Kravitz, who is engaged to the star.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The Warriors head coach has been memed, lit up by Stephen A. Smith, compared to a middle school coach and accused of being in over his head.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2024

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