How to Use schoolbook in a Sentence
schoolbook
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Chanty’s schoolbook and her purse were also found in the same area.
— Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 29 Dec. 2021 -
Florida has been at the forefront of the schoolbook wars.
— Hannah Natanson, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2023 -
So 10-year-old Meir helped form a club to raise money to help families buy schoolbooks.
— Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2023 -
Children’s drawings clung to the wallpaper, and schoolbooks were stacked on the living room shelves.
— Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2023 -
In Benin City, Blessing’s schoolbooks are still piled on a shelf in her former bedroom, but Doris sold her mattress to buy food.
— Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017 -
The building was used for storing schoolbooks, supplies and district records, and became known as the Roosevelt Park Warehouse.
— Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 25 Apr. 2023 -
In the meantime, kids still primarily carried their schoolbooks in their hands.
— Elizabeth Wellington, Philly.com, 24 Aug. 2017 -
Zuma, the son of a domestic worker, did not go to school as a boy but tried to teach himself using other children’s schoolbooks.
— Robyn Dixon, latimes.com, 29 May 2017 -
Many things in Macedonia will have to change, from passports to government letterhead to schoolbooks.
— Konstantin Testorides, The Seattle Times, 28 Jan. 2019 -
And thanks to the size of the Texas schoolbook market, the state board of education has a disproportionate influence on the textbooks used in American schools.
— Kevin O’Kelly, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2018 -
They were mixed in together with other schoolbooks and papers like camouflage.
— New York Times, 8 Aug. 2019 -
Darinda Yoder told the Missoulian residents were able retrieve schoolbooks and desks.
— CBS News, 6 Sep. 2017 -
On recent visits, lizards scuttled through the belongings left behind — a jar of pills, a schoolbook filled with a child’s handwriting, a guide to creating a computer password.
— Gabby Sobelman, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023 -
Timbuk2 is running a sale on Amazon right now, the perfect messenger bags and backpacks for carrying everything from schoolbooks to laptops.
— David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 15 Dec. 2017 -
And no coincidence that some of those who want a less democractic, secular society now are trying to shut Thomas Jefferson out of our schoolbooks.
— David Dobbs, WIRED, 16 Mar. 2010 -
By the time Ford acquired the building, the old DPS records and schoolbooks were long gone, although some large machinery and conveyor belt equipment was still inside and needed to be disassembled before it could be removed.
— Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 25 Apr. 2023 -
The tale, lauding the First Lady’s quick thinking in a moment of crisis, eventually found its way into American folklore through schoolbooks, monographs, and artwork.
— Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 7 June 2018 -
In early May a Dayton mine manager and a local druggist (the latter also part-time chairman of the schoolbook committee) met with John Scopes, a young high school science teacher, to discuss resistance.
— Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 10 July 2018 -
New schoolbooks for high school students about general world history and Russian history are presented in Moscow last month.
— Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2023 -
The evidence of his determination is provided by the acres of vacant classroom and school library bookshelves in his state, ransacked to eradicate woke artifacts in schoolbooks.
— Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023 -
Raised by her grandmother in rural Tanzania, Mercy Esther and her siblings were born into poverty, sometimes without money for food, let alone schoolbooks.
— Lisa Cohen, CNN, 18 Mar. 2023 -
Marguerite Culley, a practical nurse, and Elizabeth Beatty, a retired secretary, began making deliveries of food, medicine and schoolbooks to the sick.
— Roger Naylor, azcentral, 11 May 2020 -
Dueling library gumshoes are throwing the schoolbook at prominent candidates and often trumpeting the investigations on social media or at news conferences..
— Joyu Wang, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
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