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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Many Native children, including a significant portion of the Code Talker cohort, were still being taken from their families and forced to enroll in boarding schools, where they were stripped of their language and other traditions.
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Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025
Blackwood Academy is an enchanted boarding school that straddles the realms of life and death, and students can only leave by being the sole victor of the Decennial tournament.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 31 July 2025
The great tool of subjection in Canada was the Indian residential school system, while in the United States, boarding schools played a similar role.
—Tanya Talaga
july 24, Literary Hub, 24 July 2025
In Hiva Oa, children were forced to go to Catholic boarding schools that snuffed out native tradition, language, and beliefs.
—Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
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Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025
Blackwood Academy is an enchanted boarding school that straddles the realms of life and death, and students can only leave by being the sole victor of the Decennial tournament.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 31 July 2025
The great tool of subjection in Canada was the Indian residential school system, while in the United States, boarding schools played a similar role.
—Tanya Talaga
july 24, Literary Hub, 24 July 2025
In Hiva Oa, children were forced to go to Catholic boarding schools that snuffed out native tradition, language, and beliefs.
—Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for boarding school
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“Boarding school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boarding%20school. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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