How to Use scholastic in a Sentence
scholastic
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His involvement in the scholastic chess circuit kept her head in the game for years.
— Christine Clarridge, The Seattle Times, 15 July 2019 -
The calendar that was released has the dates for all sports in all three seasons of the scholastic year.
— Joshua Edler Davis, The Arizona Republic, 26 July 2023 -
The youth and scholastic market, though, is far larger.
— Ken Belson, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2019 -
Stotesbury is the world’s oldest and largest scholastic rowing event.
— Rick O'Brien, Philly.com, 17 May 2018 -
Boling had been a rising scholastic runner and jumper for two years.
— Tim Layden, SI.com, 19 June 2019 -
Follow what turns you on and don’t be too scholastic in your practicing — unless that is what turns you on.
— George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2022 -
From scholastic plaid to classic black to Miuccia’s go-to white skirt, our edit of the best pleated skirts has them all.
— Megan O'Sullivan, Vogue, 1 Mar. 2023 -
Troy was the cool, star basketball player and Gabriella was the new, bookish girl on the scholastic decathlon team.
— Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 25 Oct. 2017 -
It is said that medieval scholastic philosophers debated how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
— Rich Lowry, National Review, 7 May 2021 -
With the city as your campus, there’s a certain scholastic crispness to this fall’s programming.
— The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2023 -
Bauer sat next to Luba in a class, and the scholastic All-American’s attention to detail caught his eye.
— Susan Slusser, SFChronicle.com, 1 Dec. 2020 -
Other changes could broaden the course so that those who fail both the physical fitness requirements and the scholastic test might be able to get in.
— Lolita C. Baldor, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2022 -
The often sorry state of scholastic instruments weighs on Manilow’s mind.
— Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Dec. 2022 -
Sorting out how all this can be true at once is a riddle worthy of a medieval scholastic philosopher.
— D.j. Tice, Star Tribune, 17 July 2021 -
Chinnea, Santelises, and most of the city council had stayed tight-lipped about the shocking scholastic findings.
— Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 10 Mar. 2021 -
An oversize bunny lamp is perfect for nighttime, while fine art above the bed adds a playful yet scholastic touch.
— Kate McGregor, ELLE Decor, 20 Jan. 2023 -
Josh is the guy on the team everyone looks up to, the model of persistence, leadership and scholastic achievement.
— Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 21 Aug. 2019 -
For Cook-Littman’s kids, the post-Sandy Hook amendments — the security guards, the gates, the buzzers — are unremarkable fixtures of the scholastic landscape.
— Matthew Ormseth, courant.com, 16 Feb. 2018 -
Kevin Hoang, manager of scholastic partnerships at Twitch, said in the news release.
— Allen Kim, CNN, 31 July 2020 -
Even just watching their kids sleepwalk through months of scholastic gloom and Zoom has given parents reason enough to be concerned.
— Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2021 -
The nerdy-scholastic confidence of Szydlowski appears to have been shaped by years as a volunteer on Wikipedia.
— Asaf Shalev, sun-sentinel.com, 8 June 2021 -
The administrators stripped some of the students of their scholastic honors.
— Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2022 -
Pierce, whose early background was in tech, not design, curates furniture based on a feeling more than the scholastic merits of the object or rules of the game.
— Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023 -
Providence: More high school athletes will be allowed to unmask this spring, according to the governing body of scholastic sports in the state.
— From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 14 May 2021 -
The last scholastic football player to die in Texas is believed to be a high school freshman who collapsed at practice last September in the town of Emory, about 75 miles east of Dallas.
— Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 23 Aug. 2018 -
Once there, their eyes are opened to all the latest perspectives, talents and tools that might have been holding back their scholastic performance before.
— Wesley Mullins, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022 -
Through persistence, study, and playing against top scholastic and adult players, one of Alabama's rising chess stars is making all the right moves.
— Michael Ciamarra, AL.com, 11 June 2017 -
The third and fourth weeks in June are reserved for scholastic events, which are put on by state athletic or coaches associations.
— Matt Goul, cleveland, 19 Apr. 2021 -
Many teams on their way to a clear rout, especially in scholastic sports, back off a little, benching starters, easing up on defense and slowing the pace of the game to limit scoring.
— Dugan Arnett, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2018 -
My Greek teacher, a scholastic named McGoldrick, smoked unfiltered Camels down to his yellow-stained knuckles.
— Lance Morrow, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2018
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