He attended a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts.
She was sent to boarding school when she was nine.
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Despite their magical abilities, Potter and his friends Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger faced the same problems as regular pre-teens and teens navigating life in boarding school.—JSTOR Daily, 12 Oct. 2025 In addition to its prime, bucolic location in the Green Mountains, Putney is perhaps best known for its schools, including Landmark College and the boarding schools, Putney School and Greenwood School.—Megan Margulies, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2025 Then again, even the fictional boarding school for witches and wizards in the Harry Potter series did not have a production line like Barcelona’s academy.—Laia Cervelló Herrero, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025 Also in ’97, Myatt created and produced the comedy Social Studies for UPN and Dolly Parton’s Sandollar Productions, set in a boarding school and starring Julia Duffy.—Greg Evans, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for boarding school
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