How to Use schoolteacher in a Sentence

schoolteacher

noun
  • Charlie Hong, a schoolteacher in Chongqing, said that is no longer the case.
    Liza Lin, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2020
  • The lone male on-hand is August (Ben Whishaw), a schoolteacher.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Both are daughters of schoolteacher moms and banker-farmer dads.
    Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Thompson was born in Bolton in 1948, the son of a mechanic and a schoolteacher.
    Grace Segers, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2022
  • His brother is a schoolteacher, and his sister works in a bank.
    Bob Carlton | Bcarlton@al.com, al, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Bliss in Adair County got its name from a beloved schoolteacher.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 8 Sep. 2023
  • If your mom’s a schoolteacher, you’re being taught 24/7.
    al, 14 Sep. 2022
  • For many years, Clute was a schoolteacher, which led her to take a job in children’s services with the state.
    Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
  • McEachin, the son of an Army officer and a schoolteacher, was born in West Germany in 1961.
    Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2022
  • In Ukraine, a typical schoolteacher would make less than a quarter of that over the course of a year.
    New York Times, 3 May 2022
  • Her father, a former schoolteacher, walked the girls to school every day and taught them to read.
    New York Times, 19 June 2022
  • Her mother was a schoolteacher and her father a welder.
    Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Next up is Serene, 27, the sweet schoolteacher from Clayton's season.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Their mother, Melody Bell, a former schoolteacher, had pushed her two boys to excel in school and the arts.
    Cassandra Jaramillo, Dallas News, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Sean said that much of his learning has come via his mom, a former schoolteacher.
    Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 30 Apr. 2021
  • My mom was my third-grade schoolteacher who took me home with her and adopted me and my younger brother.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 7 May 2022
  • Amy Carter, who was 9 when the family moved into the White House, is now 53 and a schoolteacher in Atlanta.
    Washington Post, 10 July 2021
  • The 21-year-old British schoolteacher rowed into the record books on Feb. 21, becoming the youngest woman to cross an ocean alone.
    Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Her mom was a schoolteacher, and Platoni even protested the Vietnam War.
    Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Debbi Hixon, a schoolteacher whose husband Chris was killed, also is on the board.
    Brittany Wallman, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Apr. 2022
  • All seven on board were killed, including the first schoolteacher bound for space, Christa McAuliffe.
    Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Her mother was a schoolteacher in Detroit and later taught in Walled Lake.
    Sue Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 19 Sep. 2021
  • Britain to settle down with a woman — in his case, a schoolteacher played by The Crown's Emma Corrin.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 15 June 2022
  • With his eyes on the prize, Ball, a schoolteacher, hopes to win the competition and pursue singing as a full-time career.
    Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Coleman was a beloved schoolteacher and soon-to-be grandmother, the episode revealed.
    Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 14 Sep. 2024
  • Set in Bangkok in the 1860s, the musical follows the story of a romance between the king of Siam and a British schoolteacher named Anna.
    Naomi Stock, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The retired schoolteacher even offered to pay one of her former students five dollars to get the shot.
    al, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Connie Moon, a retired schoolteacher with lightning white hair, was one of the jurors at the trial.
    Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Also in the race is J. Carolan O’Gabhann, a schoolteacher who has not spent any money on his campaign.
    David Zahniserstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2022
  • The former schoolteacher also brought to the stage a sense of optimism and abandon that the American electorate hasn’t seen for months.
    Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 8 Aug. 2024

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