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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Zoey 101 is set in Southern California at the Pacific Coast Academy, a pretend boarding school where Zoey Brooks (Spears), her brother Dustin (Paul Butcher), and their friends are learning to live, laugh, and love as young teenagers.
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Will Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Jan. 2026
So, in a way, being at boarding school became a haven for William.
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Rae's character went from tending to the Drummond family to being the housemother of the all-girls boarding school, Eastland School.
—Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 29 Dec. 2025
In the days before the attack, gunmen kidnapped 25 girls from a boarding school in Nigeria’s Kebbi State and killed at least one staffer.
—Rachel Wolf , Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 26 Dec. 2025
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Will Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Jan. 2026
So, in a way, being at boarding school became a haven for William.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 31 Dec. 2025
Rae's character went from tending to the Drummond family to being the housemother of the all-girls boarding school, Eastland School.
—Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 29 Dec. 2025
In the days before the attack, gunmen kidnapped 25 girls from a boarding school in Nigeria’s Kebbi State and killed at least one staffer.
—Rachel Wolf , Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 26 Dec. 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 8 Jan. 2026.
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