How to Use scholastic in a Sentence

scholastic

adjective
  • 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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