How to Use school in a Sentence

school

1 of 2 noun
  • Most schools now don’t seem to care.
    Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 10 May 2026
  • He has been fired, the school said.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 29 May 2026
  • Some schools don’t have a kitchen at all.
    Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Four home runs in a game tied a school record.
    Tim Willert, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
  • My high-school years were spent much like theirs.
    Eli Durst, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Sack’s wife died at the start of that same school year.
    Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2025
  • But Kirk was a rock star at my school.
    Eli Thompson, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2025
  • And more—a place to rest, a job, a school for their kids.
    Daniel Alarcón, New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The school even offers a dance team.
    Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 May 2026
  • Over many years, he's done a lot of great things for our school.
    CBS News, 12 July 2026
  • This duty is even greater in schools.
    Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
  • He was kept out of school for his safety.
    Jolene Almendarez, Cincinnati Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2025
  • She was fired after the school found out.
    Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Two courts sided with the school.
    Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Why isn't that a subject in school?
    Steve Hartman, CBS News, 23 May 2026
  • That means schools have to do something.
    Justin Reich, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Their schools double as food banks.
    Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The school dance had been postponed.
    Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • The school is empty, its gates locked.
    ABC News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The young man was a student at the school.
    Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Dad did help with food and clothing and school.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Then near our school, something was hit.
    ABC News, 14 June 2026
  • Howard set a school record for wins in a season.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2026
  • What kind of grades did the pirate get in school?
    Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The boy had a concert at school the very next day.
    Maggie Penman, Washington Post, 22 May 2026
  • Venable didn’t go to that school.
    Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Parents don't want to send their kids to school.
    Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Players can then sign with schools at any time.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Hundreds of schools have closed.
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 27 June 2026
  • Some said their parents liked the schools or moved for a job.
    John Wisely, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025

school

2 of 2 verb
  • He had long been schooled on the dangers of the sun.
    Zach Berman, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Not every child walks to school these days or takes a school bus.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Who wants to be schooled in all the reasons the answer was no?
    Rajiv J. Shah, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The classmate and her mother drove Rezwan to school the next day.
    Kartikay Mehrotra, ProPublica, 19 Nov. 2022
  • The worst thing is these kids aren’t being properly schooled.
    The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Around 10% are enrolled in private schools, while the rest are home-schooled.
    Rachel Wegner, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Aug. 2025
  • The playbook, going to school all the time, all that came natural to me.
    Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Subscribing to this fine newsletter will school you, in a good way.
    Owen Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 9 Sep. 2020
  • When bass are schooled up, the Mag Darter often draws strikes on every cast.
    Jimmy Fee, Field & Stream, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Soon enough, Ben is schooling her in both the Torah and the rules of the Kosher kitchen.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 20 Jan. 2024
  • Noah Brown takes Nahshon Wright to school with a little stutter step.
    Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2022
  • There are people doing the hard work that schools such as Hi-Mount require.
    Alan J. Borsuk, jsonline.com, 12 June 2026
  • Carolina looks like the fun little overachiever about to get schooled.
    Miami Herald, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Christy Roscoe home-schooled their two now-adult sons and then their two now-young adult daughters, adopted from Liberia.
    Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Juvenile white sharks mainly eat bottom fish, smaller sharks and rays, and schooling fish and squids.
    Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 5 July 2023
  • He had been schooled in graphic design and was working in advertising.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2024
  • All hail to the poetry slam, which schooled me in the art of living a flawed, slapdash life out loud for everyone to see.
    Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Shaq’s pregame ritual schooled 10-year-old me on the low end of audio frequency.
    Nick Friedell, New York Times, 23 May 2026
  • The result is that kids want to come to school each and every day and look forward to coming to school, even on the optional days.
    Caroline Allen, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • That’s on top of raising four children, all home-schooled (sometimes in his Senate office).
    Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Webb was schooled in the Air Raid before the invention of the Air Pod.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 6 July 2026
  • She's learned about love, loss, and devastation and descended to our planet to school the masses.
    Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 17 June 2022
  • Thankfully, Matt Damon has a daughter who can school him on what’s become taboo.
    Marianne Garvey, CNN, 2 Aug. 2021
  • The Crumbleys were summoned to school for a meeting about the drawing but didn’t take Ethan home.
    Ed White, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Mar. 2023
  • On the other hand, Thompson will school Johnson on Atlanta acts.
    Rodney Ho, ajc, 15 Dec. 2021
  • The Crumbleys were summoned to school for a meeting about the drawing, but didn't take Ethan home.
    CBS News, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Sales of the $6 tickets will be used to fund performances for students at Title I schools.
    Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 30 Nov. 2025
  • He had been schooled through the prestigious Clairefontaine elite performance centre, too.
    Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 13 May 2026
  • This requires architects and acousticians deeply schooled in theaters, and each has its own acoustical needs.
    Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • His Bruce spends a fair amount of time by himself, and doesn’t speak the language of the therapeutically schooled.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025

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