How to Use school in a Sentence

school

1 of 2 noun
  • This year, some students will not get a free ride to school.
    Peter Greene, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Now is the time to get up, get my endorphins going, get the kids to school.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Food can be picked up at the schools so parents don't have to make an extra trip.
    Stacy Ryburn, arkansasonline.com, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The child's mom, Priyanka Soni, said her son worked on the project for two hours each day after school.
    Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 29 Feb. 2024
  • And the dean of students, who was in that meeting as well, concluded that the boy did not present a threat to the school.
    Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 12 Mar. 2024
  • But plugging holes in a dam year after year to keep schools staffed has worn him down.
    Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • And then, there were kids who were going to school in Marc Jacobs straight off the runway.
    Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Tuesday was Williams’ last board meeting as head of the school system.
    Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 13 June 2023
  • One of the legendary Men of Moeller is retiring from the high school football program at the school.
    James Weber, The Enquirer, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Trees for Arizona schools:An easy fix for Arizona school shade takes root.
    The Arizona Republic, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Louis lost his job when the Nuremberg Laws were adopted in 1935; as a Jew he was barred from teaching in a state school.
    David E. Sanger, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • But the prospect of running a school themselves would probably give these moguls pause.
    Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The teacher might be able to ease some of her concerns about school by engaging with her more in the classroom.
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • What’s next Many schools in the state will not open on Thursday because of the ongoing manhunt.
    Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The Maine shooting is the deadliest mass shooting in the United States this year and the deadliest since the Uvalde school tragedy.
    Melissa Noel, Essence, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Though not an alum of the school, Price noted that the comedian and his wife are both proud Duke parents.
    Zoe G Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 May 2024
  • And 72% of Black students will attend high-poverty schools.
    Tiffany Eve Lawrence, Parents, 4 Feb. 2024
  • But Priyanka, the oldest, drove her crazy, skipping school to horse around with her younger siblings.
    Qadri Inzamam Saumya Khandelwal, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
  • In the early to mid-1900s, the home was occupied by S.D. Lawrence, a public servant who helped raise funds for the first school buildings in Mesquite.
    Kayla Hui, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2023
  • The writings in the images appear to have language about carrying out a shooting at a school and a date.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Consider a child who's anxious about starting school in a new city.
    Marisa Cohen, Parents, 18 Sep. 2023
  • And Janine is causing chaos, being self-involved, but under the guise of helping the school.
    Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2024
  • The agency said dozens of its schools and its Gaza headquarters have been struck by the Israeli military.
    Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The school has been bulldozed by settlers since Weiman last visited.
    Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Roughly a third of schools have a school climate advocate.
    Gail Cornwall, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Tucker has more than $77 million remaining on his contract, which the school would not have to pay him if he is fired with cause.
    oregonlive, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Once, her daughter’s drama teacher assigned her the monkey role in a school play.
    Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
  • In the first weeks of school in the fall, central Indiana County saw more than half a dozen instances of students bringing weapons to school.
    Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Mar. 2024
  • After he was cleared of wrongdoing, the school did not reinstate him.
    Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Lola Barba, a mother of two who grew up in Mexico City, attends a festival at her niece's school.
    Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 12 May 2024
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school

2 of 2 verb
  • Soon enough, Ben is schooling her in both the Torah and the rules of the Kosher kitchen.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 20 Jan. 2024
  • Who wants to be schooled in all the reasons the answer was no?
    Rajiv J. Shah, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The classmate and her mother drove Rezwan to school the next day.
    Kartikay Mehrotra, ProPublica, 19 Nov. 2022
  • The playbook, going to school all the time, all that came natural to me.
    Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 6 Aug. 2023
  • When bass are schooled up, the Mag Darter often draws strikes on every cast.
    Jimmy Fee, Field & Stream, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Noah Brown takes Nahshon Wright to school with a little stutter step.
    Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The Crumbleys were summoned to school for a meeting about the drawing but didn’t take Ethan home.
    Ed White, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The Crumbleys were summoned to school for a meeting about the drawing, but didn't take Ethan home.
    CBS News, 23 Mar. 2023
  • One of them, Genesis Kuba, told me that out of his class of 160, only these few had been able to make it to school that day.
    Carlos Mureithi, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The result is that kids want to come to school each and every day and look forward to coming to school, even on the optional days.
    Caroline Allen, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • Subscribing to this fine newsletter will school you, in a good way.
    Owen Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 9 Sep. 2020
  • The family's housekeeper was stunned to find the remains of North's prank when Kim took the children to school the next day and instantly thought the worst.
    Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 12 July 2022
  • On the other hand, Thompson will school Johnson on Atlanta acts.
    Rodney Ho, ajc, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Her ex-fiancé Joel Schiffman takes the girls to school several days a week, and Kotb strives to pick them up every day as work allows.
    Charlotte Triggs, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The rooms—pared back and minimalist—with an outsized portrait of each child newly schooled—will be joined by 24 more plus a six-meter-long pool by the end of the year.
    Claire Boobbyer, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Apr. 2024
  • She's learned about love, loss, and devastation and descended to our planet to school the masses.
    Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 17 June 2022
  • But then came along Abbott Elementary to school us all.
    EW.com, 12 Dec. 2022
  • How to catch them: Crappie are a popular, schooling panfish that are fun to catch and delicious to eat.
    Jordan Rodriguez, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Style du Monde’s street style photos schooled us in the art of layering a school uniform-style skirt over track pants, another way to keep warm, if not fuzzy.
    Irene Kim, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Thankfully, Matt Damon has a daughter who can school him on what’s become taboo.
    Marianne Garvey, CNN, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Juvenile white sharks mainly eat bottom fish, smaller sharks and rays, and schooling fish and squids.
    Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 5 July 2023
  • The idea going into the season was that the Warriors would work with their No. 2 overall draft pick, develop him, school him and elevate his game.
    Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Gigi Hadid never fails to school us on need-to-know fashions, from affordable, under-the-radar brands to micro trends like jorts.
    Alexis Bennett, Vogue, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Boston has hired more bus drivers than ever before, in an effort to avoid a repeat of last year when more than 40 percent of buses were late to school the first day.
    Christopher Huffaker, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2022
  • He had been schooled in graphic design and was working in advertising.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2024
  • The older Lincoln, crashing in Booth’s pad, tries to school him in the sleight of hand of a card game with its own connections to America’s carnival culture.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The other day an acquaintance turned me onto something called the Beer & Brewing podcast, and I’ve since been schooled on the nuances of chillers in beer production.
    Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Her colleagues’ relative greenness means that Eileen must find a way to school them without giving way to her worst impulses.
    Daniel D'addario, Variety, 3 Oct. 2022
  • An interior designer to the rich, he was schooled as a modernist but known for bringing a sense of luxurious order to any style of home.
    Curbed, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Deli Salad Sandwich 3 Ways Never bring a sad desk lunch to work or school again with this ultra-adaptable sandwich formula.
    Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024

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