How to Use school-age in a Sentence

school-age

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• The contest, the first held at the fair in over 20 years, is open to all school-age youth.
  — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2024
• Carter was the fifth school-age child killed in Baltimore this year.
  — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2023
• What good happens on a mobile device for a school-age child between the hours of say, 11 p.m. and 5 a.m.?
  — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
• The video showed small children, who appeared to be younger than school-age, in the immediate area of the fist fight.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 29 Mar. 2023
• The older, Anya, healthy and happy, had long lived with her husband and their two school-age children.
  — Lyudmila Ulitskaya, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• If your school-age child is getting less than five servings of fruit a day, give them a half cup of any of these fruits, three to five times a day.
  — Amy Capetta, Parents, 13 June 2023
• His programs are available for all ages, but a good portion of his students are school-age.
  — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 12 July 2024
• Neil is also the proud grandfather to eight grandchildren, who range from school-age kids to young adults.
  — Francesca Gariano, Peoplemag, 4 Nov. 2023
• Toma was the sponsor of the bill that in 2022 expanded Arizona's voucher program to every school-age child.
  — The Arizona Republic, 2 Jan. 2024
• Sargassum odors have led to an increase in nausea and headaches among school-age children.
  — Farah Nibbs, The Conversation, 4 June 2024
• When her children are school-age, Rachel gets together with her new group of mom friends, and the topic turns to how hard motherhood is.
  — Hannah Seligson, ELLE, 27 Feb. 2023
• Meanwhile, her school-age daughter eats right after school.
  — Melissa Willets, Parents, 20 Feb. 2024
• The San Gabriel mother of six shells out hundreds of dollars every summer to get her four school-age kids ready for the school year with new supplies, clothes and shoes.
  — Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
• The houses on Ridgewood Road and Jacobo Lane do not have school-age children residing in them.
  — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 20 Mar. 2024
• As older adults now outnumber school-age children in New York City, the need continues to grow.
  — David Graver, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2024
• School-board-election voters tend to be older than parents of school-age children.
  — Charles Homans, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• In the second half of the 1800s, a group of Catholic missionaries gathered a group of school-age boys in French Polynesia and taught them how to grow, harvest and process pearl shells.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
• Then, when the pandemic hit, the couple and their three school-age children, as well as Offit’s mother and brother, chose to decamp to the leafy idyll full-time.
  — Sarah Lyon, Architectural Digest, 16 Aug. 2024
• The big idea Moms of school-age children get significantly less sleep during the school year than during the summer.
  — Todd Jones, Fortune Well, 6 Aug. 2023
• Based on the books by Tony DiTerlizzi, this series is a great pick for families with school-age kids who are ready for adventure.
  — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
• In Kentucky, the share of school-age children in public schools decreased by almost 8 percentage points.
  — Catherine Allen, NBC News, 21 Apr. 2024
• Each state decides whether and how to mandate vaccines to school-age children, or during a pandemic.
  — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
• While cases had been higher in school-age kids compared to other age groups, rates in babies have surged in recent weeks, and are now tied with older kids.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 19 Nov. 2024
• On the Eastside, a steady stream of parents arrived amid a downpour and received a pack filled with six meals to tide over their school-age children for breakfast and lunch through Thursday.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• The faux-biopic gave a glimpse of pivotal moments in Savage’s upbringing, such as facing bullies during his school-age years.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 27 Jan. 2024
• Charlene has brought along her school-age daughter, Rainey, and her infant son, whom Charlene quickly hands off to the pliant newcomer.
  — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2023
• The same goes for the stability control, which is as overworked as a Dickensian school-age coal miner and will happily let the tail out for a few seconds at a time.
  — Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 3 July 2023
• Roughly 80% of school-age girls in the country were not in school, according to the report, and women are banned from attending universities.
  — Andy Weir, NBC News, 5 July 2024
• In Egypt, where nearly a third of the population lives in poverty, Halima Rabie has struggled for years to feed her five school-age children.
  — Paul Wiseman and David McHugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Feb. 2023
• LaSalle and her husband, Ryan, have two school-age children, so creating a central hub was a priority.
  — Olivia Hosken, House Beautiful, 13 July 2023

Last Updated: 10 Jan 2025