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Recent Examples of schoolbookThe schoolbooks and sandals were among hundreds of items that belonged to Afghans who died in the many conflicts that have roiled the country.—Ruchi Kumar, NPR, 10 Dec. 2024 Meanwhile, fans, mostly teenage girls (some carrying their schoolbooks), crowd the barriers at the Plaza Hotel, penetrate its halls, press their faces to the windows of the limousine carrying the band to the Sullivan show, and chase it down the street.—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024 In the past year, schoolbook chapters on the Mughal period have been pared down or removed altogether.—Byvaishnavi Chandrashekhar, science.org, 5 Sep. 2024 From a schoolbook used by Henry VIII as a boy to a bust of Earle Hyman as Othello, mementos from centuries of modern history are littered throughout the exhibition hall.—Lucas Trevor, Washington Post, 18 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for schoolbook
Their former schools will be cut off from all public funds — for child nutrition programs, transportation, textbooks and other services — in what advocates suggested was a new phase of a yearslong effort to ensure all students graduate with basic skills in core subjects, such as English and math.
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Cayla Bamberger,
New York Daily News,
18 Feb. 2025
Supply and demand, the preferences of buyers and sellers, trading rules — the textbooks say these and other factors determine market prices.
That seems like a play straight out of Reba’s handbook.
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Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
11 Feb. 2025
The handbook recommends pilots experiencing spatial disorientation rely on their instruments over visual information and transfer control to another pilot, since two people rarely experience these illusions at the same time.
That ability to launch wider investigations appears to have been stripped under Trump; there is no mention of systemic investigations in the new manual.
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Jennifer Smith Richards,
ProPublica,
21 Feb. 2025
At the royal court, scribes advanced Ottoman Turkish as a language of elite writing, compiling collections of letters to convey correct writing methods, and drawing up a style manual.
Her longer term projects included writing the book Food Festivals: Eating Your Way from Coast to Coast, co-authoring the book Holidays and Festivals Dictionary, and serving as an editor for a synonym dictionary entitled The Synonym Finder, published by Rodale.
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Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
21 Jan. 2025
Christmas hams, party cocktails, elegant layer cakes, and cookout classics fill the dictionaries of Southern family recipes, but one of my favorites is a simple vinaigrette from my grandmother.
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Mary Shannon Wells,
Southern Living,
11 Jan. 2025
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