Examples of schoolteacher in a Sentence
schoolteachers don't always get the summers off, for some teach during that period as well
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Seventeen students from schoolteacher Justine Gandy’s third-grade class left their beds and their homes at 2:17 a.m. one night, running, arms outstretched, to a destination and a fate unknown.
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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
Afro-Peruvian singer Susana initially worked as a schoolteacher, then began traveling across the Peruvian coastline with her husband, Ricardo Pereira, studying the culture.
—Thania Garcia, Variety, 7 Aug. 2025
His family was Catholic on both sides; his mother, a schoolteacher, was of Irish descent, and his father, who had been a journalist before becoming a P.R. man for the auto industry, traced his roots to a village in southern Italy.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
This marks a return to education for Agrawal, who served as a Texas schoolteacher for eight years before receiving his commission as an Air Force officer in 2001.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 28 July 2025
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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
Afro-Peruvian singer Susana initially worked as a schoolteacher, then began traveling across the Peruvian coastline with her husband, Ricardo Pereira, studying the culture.
—Thania Garcia, Variety, 7 Aug. 2025
His family was Catholic on both sides; his mother, a schoolteacher, was of Irish descent, and his father, who had been a journalist before becoming a P.R. man for the auto industry, traced his roots to a village in southern Italy.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
This marks a return to education for Agrawal, who served as a Texas schoolteacher for eight years before receiving his commission as an Air Force officer in 2001.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 28 July 2025
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“Schoolteacher.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schoolteacher. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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schoolteacher
noun
school·teach·er
-ˌtē-chər 
: a person who teaches school
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