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Examples of nursery school in a Sentence
Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
At a tiny community garden, two dozen 4- and 5-year-olds from an impoverished neighborhood of Dhaka collect leaves and petals that have fallen to the muddy ground at the end of the rainy season and return to their one-room nursery school to make collages.
—Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Oct. 2023
His father was a school principal, and his mother taught nursery school.
—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
His mother worked as a nursery school teacher and his father was an electrical contractor.
—Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 24 Aug. 2023
The young royal memorably posed on a red bike for his third birthday portrait, taken by Princess Kate on his first day of nursery school.
—Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 21 Apr. 2023
Mildred Madison’s mother, a teacher, opened one of the first nursery schools in the country.
—Detroit Free Press, 31 Aug. 2023
Masha took a job as a cleaning woman at the nursery school.
—Lyudmila Ulitskaya, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
According to state data, more than 800 religious and private schools and over 400 nursery schools are located in Maryland.
—Donna St. George, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023
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1835, in the meaning defined above
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“Nursery school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nursery%20school. Accessed 5 Dec. 2023.
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More from Merriam-Webster on nursery school
Britannica English: Translation of nursery school for Arabic Speakers
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