Examples of boarding school in a Sentence
He attended a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts.
She was sent to boarding school when she was nine.
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More than 250 children are still being held in Nigeria after an abduction from a Catholic boarding school on November 21.
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Matthew Tostevin, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2025
His education started in a rural Kentucky boarding school where the students smoked, carried knives, and the youngest student on campus, at 9 years old, was assigned to clean the toilets.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2025
Community members gathered at the Radnor Memorial Library Thursday night to learn more about the future of Valley Forge Military Academy, a private boarding school and day school serving grades 7-12 in Wayne, Pennsylvania.
—Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
Born July 3, 1937 in then Zlín, Czechoslovakia, Stoppard attended boarding school in the Indian Himalayas after his Jewish family fled Nazi occupation, before settling in the UK after World War II.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 29 Nov. 2025
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Matthew Tostevin, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2025
His education started in a rural Kentucky boarding school where the students smoked, carried knives, and the youngest student on campus, at 9 years old, was assigned to clean the toilets.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2025
Community members gathered at the Radnor Memorial Library Thursday night to learn more about the future of Valley Forge Military Academy, a private boarding school and day school serving grades 7-12 in Wayne, Pennsylvania.
—Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
Born July 3, 1937 in then Zlín, Czechoslovakia, Stoppard attended boarding school in the Indian Himalayas after his Jewish family fled Nazi occupation, before settling in the UK after World War II.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 29 Nov. 2025
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“Boarding school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boarding%20school. Accessed 9 Dec. 2025.
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