Examples of boarding school in a Sentence
He attended a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts.
She was sent to boarding school when she was nine.
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Boarders follows five talented, Black inner-city teens transported to an alien world — a British boarding school — after gaining scholarships to the prestigious St. Gilbert’s.
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Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2024
Other finds served as messages from the past, connecting 17th-century schoolgirls to modern archaeologists, who uncovered the students’ decorative paper cuttings beneath the floorboards of their former London boarding school.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
Located near Lake Malawi, the boarding school has about 500 students and a very high pass rate on national secondary school examinations — 98 percent.
—Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
At the same event, Biden designated a national monument at the former site of the Carlisle Industrial School, the first of several boarding schools where Native American children were taken in an attempt to forcibly assimilate them into American culture.
—Zack Budryk, The Hill, 13 Dec. 2024
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Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2024
Other finds served as messages from the past, connecting 17th-century schoolgirls to modern archaeologists, who uncovered the students’ decorative paper cuttings beneath the floorboards of their former London boarding school.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
Located near Lake Malawi, the boarding school has about 500 students and a very high pass rate on national secondary school examinations — 98 percent.
—Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
At the same event, Biden designated a national monument at the former site of the Carlisle Industrial School, the first of several boarding schools where Native American children were taken in an attempt to forcibly assimilate them into American culture.
—Zack Budryk, The Hill, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Boarding school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boarding%20school. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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