Examples of common school in a Sentence
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A number of provisions of the state's Constitution require that public funds be used only for the common school system.
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Rebecca Grapevine, The Courier-Journal, 15 Mar. 2024
This custom coaster is undoubtedly unique, as each one can be customized with different designs, including common school supplies like paper clips, crayons, eraser caps, and other more.
—Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 9 Nov. 2023
This marked distinction formed an obvious division between the boys who lived above (however brought together in a common school) and the boys whose paternal residence was on the plain a sufficient cause of hostility in the code of these young Grotiuses.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
Students wear masks in class, on the bus and in common school spaces.
—USA Today, 11 Sep. 2020
Bolles quoted the Arizona Constitution that mandated the legislature to provide a system of common schools for all pupils.
—Richard Ruelas, AZCentral.com, 30 Dec. 2019
Another big chunk comes from natural gas utilities – money that may be restricted to the common school fund.
—oregonlive.com, 21 June 2019
Gedge filed a lawsuit in February 2016 in Marion Superior Court charging the IMPD and prosecutors with violating the Indiana Constitution by not forwarding forfeiture funds to the common school fund.
—Fatima Hussein, Indianapolis Star, 4 Feb. 2018
Rebecca Grapevine, The Courier-Journal, 15 Mar. 2024
This custom coaster is undoubtedly unique, as each one can be customized with different designs, including common school supplies like paper clips, crayons, eraser caps, and other more.
—Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 9 Nov. 2023
This marked distinction formed an obvious division between the boys who lived above (however brought together in a common school) and the boys whose paternal residence was on the plain a sufficient cause of hostility in the code of these young Grotiuses.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
Students wear masks in class, on the bus and in common school spaces.
—USA Today, 11 Sep. 2020
Bolles quoted the Arizona Constitution that mandated the legislature to provide a system of common schools for all pupils.
—Richard Ruelas, AZCentral.com, 30 Dec. 2019
Another big chunk comes from natural gas utilities – money that may be restricted to the common school fund.
—oregonlive.com, 21 June 2019
Gedge filed a lawsuit in February 2016 in Marion Superior Court charging the IMPD and prosecutors with violating the Indiana Constitution by not forwarding forfeiture funds to the common school fund.
—Fatima Hussein, Indianapolis Star, 4 Feb. 2018
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First Known Use
1503, in the meaning defined above
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