How to Use high school in a Sentence

high school

noun
  • Chinn teases us with the tropes of the high school genre.
    Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Danylo had always been the glue of the group, a band of 10 or so who met in high school.
    Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Not only that, but the former young adults are teenagers again, back in high school.
    Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Be Your Own Pet emerged out of Nashville in the mid-2000s when its members were still in high school.
    Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Both were married for more than 40 years to their high school sweethearts.
    Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • School's Out:What was Alice Cooper like in high school?
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2023
  • This is blown open when Saul follows her home from their high school reunion.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The Wonderettes are reunited and a little scarred by life since high school.
    David L. Coddoncontributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2023
  • With a 110-pitch limit in high school, Allen said Kroepel was down to his last two pitches in the seventh.
    John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Adria was an elite gymnast for 10 years and competed through high school.
    Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 24 Sep. 2023
  • The 6-1 guard is expected to have plenty on his shoulders in his final year of high school.
    Erick Taylor, Arkansas Online, 16 July 2023
  • Both were among the nation’s best prospects at that position as high school players.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Walton — a 17-year-old varsity golfer with a flop of curly brown hair — is such a math whiz that the high school ran out of classes for him.
    Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Because in football, the coach is the most important person (that’s why the same high schools win every year).
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
  • Still, the chronic absenteeism trends were most profound in high school.
    Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The players, who Reese said have been friends since high school, both received technical fouls.
    Evan Easterling, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • That’s a line straight out of Mean Girls, the circa 2004 movie about surviving a suburban high school and its cliques.
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 9 Nov. 2023
  • In high school, Lasiewski lost a close friend to suicide and fell into a deep depression.
    Audrey Richardson and Aurora Sousanis, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2024
  • What screening looks like Most athletes, even those in high school, will have a cardiac screening.
    Amanda Sealy, CNN, 7 Apr. 2024
  • Advertisement On the first full night of the 2023 high school football season, Stevens put on a show backing his coach’s praise.
    Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The spread of American high schools and then colleges meant that graduates were no longer an elite group.
    David Leonhardt, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Adults without at least a high school diploma had the highest obesity rates, at 37.6%.
    Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Part of that story was his purchase by a group of high school friends from Sackets Harbor, New York, who used to travel to races in a school bus.
    Stephanie Gallman Jordan, Southern Living, 28 July 2023
  • After 14 years playing in the NFL, Sanders dabbled in coaching high school football.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Things have changed, and nearly all of his friends from high school and college are feeling like home ownership is out of reach for them.
    Alena Botros, Fortune, 15 July 2023
  • Camp visits will continue through July and the first two weeks of August before the start of the high school football season.
    Matt Goul, cleveland, 14 July 2023
  • Nathaniel and Peggy met in high school Dak's parents were high school sweethearts who started dating in 1979.
    Nasha Smith, Peoplemag, 14 Jan. 2024
  • In September 2022, Brunson took Marks to their alma mater and proposed to her on the basketball court of their high school gym.
    Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 28 July 2023
  • He was focused on graduating from high school and for the most part had stayed out of trouble, his mother said.
    Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Last year a judge vacated Syed’s conviction for the murder of his high school girlfriend Hae Min Lee.
    Beatrice Peterson, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2023

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