How to Use boarding school in a Sentence

boarding school

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  • She was sent to boarding school when she was nine.
  • He attended a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts.
  • This was part of what the boarding school process was doing.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Monse is at boarding school, socializing with new friends.
    — Neha Prakash, Marie Claire, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Paris has since been advocating to shut down the Utah boarding school and other institutions that allegedly abuse minors.
    — Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Small things—the fact that they were both sent away to boarding school at age 9, after being reared in emotionally dysfunctional households—are enlightening, if not uplifting.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
  • At the height of the boarding school era, Arizona had 59 schools.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Most of the instances took place at the elite boarding school.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2021
  • At the outset of World War II, she was sent away to a boarding school.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 15 Jan. 2022
  • In this boarding school, the living are scarier than the ghosts.
    — Emiliano Granada, Variety, 6 Apr. 2022
  • As a teen-ager, Pamela pleaded to be sent to boarding school.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The pair has known each other since Catholic boarding school.
    — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The boarding school era lasted for more than 150 years.
    — Jessica Hopper, ABC News, 31 Mar. 2022
  • In this year’s rankings, the K-12 day and boarding school in Sheridan came in third.
    — oregonlive, 21 Sep. 2022
  • In high school, Whaley went to an all-girls Catholic boarding school about an hour and a half away.
    — Henry J. Gomez & Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 27 Feb. 2022
  • The panelists asked how many of the attendees in the room had also been made to go to a boarding school.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 July 2022
  • The Culver Academies, a top-notch private boarding school for grades 9-12, is in the heart of the town.
    — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2024
  • He was sent to a private boarding school at 12 and rarely heard from his parents.
    — Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
  • Kalari Rasayana has the feel of a sanatorium merged with a strict boarding school.
    — Jane Alexander, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The girls’ boarding school in Chibok, miles behind them, had been set on fire.
    — Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2024
  • At the age of thirteen, Rushdie was sent off to Rugby, a centuries-old British boarding school.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • We were put into boarding schools and we were told to reform.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2024
  • Willie is sent to boarding school and is caught stealing food on campus one night.
    — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 19 Jan. 2022
  • And then the other thing about the boarding school offered was boarding in the world of the Addams Family.
    — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2022
  • At age 6, Sister Guèbrou was sent to a boarding school in Switzerland.
    — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Karga grew up in Kyiv but from age 14 lived at boarding school in other parts of Ukraine.
    — Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 May 2022
  • The kids were all home-schooled until 14, when they were sent to a Jewish boarding school in Chicago.
    — Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Dec. 2022
  • She was taken from her parents to the boarding school in Pipestone at age 12.
    — Melissa Olson, Twin Cities, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Like all good rock ’n’ roll childhoods, I was sent away to boarding school in my midteens.
    — Marc Myers, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Today, President Biden also issued a historic presidential apology for the federal Indian boarding school era.
    — Vogue, 29 Oct. 2024

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