How to Use prep school in a Sentence

prep school

noun
  • The visiting team was from St. Luke's, a prep school in New Canaan.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Drape a sweater vest over this button-down, and the look just went from prep school to Parisian street fashion.
    Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2023
  • For Trey and other students at the prestigious prep school, the speed and the scale of the loss were dizzying.
    Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The setting is an all-boys New England prep school on the cusp of a two-week Christmas break.
    Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Oct. 2023
  • One of the state’s top basketball prospects is leaving for prep school.
    Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Think prep school and collegiate days, a mix of heritage pieces with a sporty edge.
    Jaclyn Alexandra Cohen, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Mar. 2023
  • No longer just a prep school staple, loafers are the perfect shoe to take you from work to play—no matter the season.
    Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Another one of the top high school basketball prospects in the state is headed to prep school.
    Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 19 July 2023
  • Sent to the Taft prep school in Connecticut, the young man honed his tennis and academic skills.
    James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 17 June 2022
  • There’s also an under-19 team that can keep girls around longer instead of forcing them to leave the area to go to prep school for hockey.
    Stephen Whyno, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Grzelcyk, a Charlestown product, played in the first-ever prep school game at Fenway.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2022
  • That prep school closed and Jordan then enrolled at Central State.
    Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Nothing says fall like a nostalgia movies at an east coast prep school.
    Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 22 Sep. 2022
  • On Thursday, Veterans Day, Maisel will lead a program at the prep school.
    Phil Gast, CNN, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Pate isn’t the first Dallas-area standout to transfer to a prep school this offseason.
    Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The thumb drive containing the intel on Hannah's wife-prep school is being worked on.
    Matt Cabral, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Scott Sternberg’s Band of Outsiders was making suiting that was snug, short and made one look like a prep school kid.
    Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2022
  • Or go to a prep school for a fifth year of high school eligibility.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Okay, is this a blond person who loves skiing who went to prep school, or is this like a young guy from Atlanta who loves skiing?
    Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Of course, some sports cost more to play than others, with the likes of lacrosse and horseback riding synonymous with elite private prep schools.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Sure, there may be too many suspicious deaths for one fancy prep school, but this show always keeps us on our toes.
    Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The 6-foot point guard, who starred as a freshman at McCutcheon before transferring to a prep school in Utah, is rated as a four-star prospect and the No. 8 point guard in the class.
    Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Oct. 2021
  • The Edmund Burke prep school was locked down, and parents hoping to retrieve children were told to wait, Emerman said.
    NBC News, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Kunis plays a former teenager named TifAni, who always felt out of place in her old money prep school.
    Marianne Garvey, CNN, 7 Sep. 2022
  • He got kicked out of Harvard and the only job he’s had since is as an adjunct classics teacher at a 1970 New England prep school.
    Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • At an out-of-town or out-of-state prep school, Clingan, 7-1, the Gatorade player of the year in Connecticut, might have faced stronger competition.
    Dom Amore, courant.com, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Most people associate the blazer with the old prep school/yacht club navy jacket with gold buttons.
    Brad Lanphear, Men's Health, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Though the siblings returned together for their second year at the prep school, Kate and William didn’t release a back-to-school portrait to the public.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2023
  • In the future, Blackmon plans to open an elite college prep school in Roseland, named after his mother, Doris.
    Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Many schools today, such as the prep school Chiarini's daughter went to, post the achievements of their students on an Instagram page.
    Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 3 Aug. 2023

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