How to Use physical education in a Sentence

physical education

noun
  • He teaches physical education at the high school.
  • None of the White students would play with the Black girl in their physical education class.
    John Blake, CNN, 1 Jan. 2022
  • For the past six years, Hogan has been teaching physical education for grades four through eight at a Catholic school in the San Francisco area.
    Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2022
  • Since the first grade my dream was to become a physical education teacher.
    Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
  • For example, the school went half the year with no physical education teacher.
    Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2023
  • Many of the hopefuls played flag football during physical education class in middle school and hoped to score a spot on the high school’s second-ever team.
    Amy Taxin, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Night schools offer a slate of subjects from math to physical education.
    Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Led by the school’s physical education teacher, Keith Adams, a burly and effervescent deaf man whose two deaf sons are also on the team, the Cubs are a fast and hard-hitting squad.
    New York Times, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Smith was hired at the school as a history and physical education teacher in 1972 and began his coaching career in wrestling.
    Alex Kushel, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Oct. 2021
  • For middle and high schools, physical education classes could have no more than 50 students, down from 60.
    Sam Schulz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2023
  • None of the tips released this week took on that tone, although one woman used the tip line to draw the governor’s attention to standout physical education teachers around the state.
    Nate Jones, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2022
  • For two decades, James directed Methuen’s cross-country program and taught physical education at the school.
    Aj Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Prior to serving as dean, Jones was a physical education teacher for 10 years and a dean’s assistant at Neuqua Valley for one year.
    Joseph Ruzich, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Jason Hall is currently a health and physical education teacher at the high school.
    Linda Gandee, cleveland, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Neil Miguez, physical education teacher at the high school, was Wilson’s cross country coach.
    Bill Jones, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Jean Kuczka, 61, a beloved physical education teacher and cross-country coach, and sophomore Alexzandria Bell, 15, were killed in the shooting.
    Teddy Grant, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2022
  • But the Bedford physical education teacher stepped up when boys’ lacrosse coach Alan Chang went on medical leave a few weeks before the season, taking over as head coach of the program.
    Zachary Lyons, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Redman, a physical education and health teacher at Avon High, was an assistant at Conard High for years.
    Lori Riley, courant.com, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Dilley, 55, is a physical education teacher who has 30 years of racing experience and knows the PIR track.
    From Staff and Wire Reports, oregonlive, 3 June 2022
  • Ronald Coltress was hired as a physical education teacher from Florida and helped out as an assistant coach.
    Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2021
  • When Yared was a freshman at duPont Manual, a magnet high school in Louisville, a physical education teacher noticed this skinny teen who seemed to have talent.
    David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 29 July 2021
  • Kelly Appleby was a physical education teacher at Brown Deer when a young student caught his eye.
    Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2022
  • It’s the expansion of art, music and physical education -- the out-of-school time activities that make school a joyous and adventurous place.
    Cameron Fields, cleveland, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Despite stepping away from coaching, Cambron will continue in his role as a physical education teacher at the high school.
    Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The state doesn’t require children wear masks at recess or during outdoor physical education, but many schools make children keep them on anyway.
    Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Nov. 2021
  • Sam Balto, a 37-year-old physical education teacher in Portland, Ore., began his journey to climate dad-dom by searching for a way to get kids to exercise.
    Olivia Rudgard, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Hall, who at the time was a physical education teacher at Vicki's school, reported seeing a dark-colored Datsun in an alley near the school on the day Vicki disappeared.
    Chelsea Curtis, The Arizona Republic, 7 June 2022
  • Kuczka had been teaching health, personal finance and physical education at the school since 2008, according to the school's website.
    CBS News, 25 Oct. 2022
  • But Tobias hadn’t known that he’d be handed between substitutes over the course of the day, transferring from his art teacher to his music teacher to his physical education teacher.
    Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2022
  • His mother, Clara (Wood) Dischinger, was a physical education teacher.
    Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023

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