How to Use physical education in a Sentence

physical education

noun
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  • He teaches physical education at the high school.
  • None of the White students would play with the Black girl in their physical education class.
    — John Blake, CNN, 1 Jan. 2022
  • For the past six years, Hogan has been teaching physical education for grades four through eight at a Catholic school in the San Francisco area.
    — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2022
  • Since the first grade my dream was to become a physical education teacher.
    — Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
  • There were only 16 of us in the health and physical education program.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024
  • So her school bought a Swivl robot for each of the K-8 classrooms, plus music and physical education.
    — Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2020
  • For example, the school went half the year with no physical education teacher.
    — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2023
  • Many of the hopefuls played flag football during physical education class in middle school and hoped to score a spot on the high school’s second-ever team.
    — Amy Taxin, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • At one point, Carson was trying to follow along to the movements of a teacher and a song during a physical education class.
    — Julia Jones and Kyung Lah, CNN, 12 Mar. 2021
  • In the room next door, physical education teacher Shannon Dwyer prepared signs to show student groups where to go and which equipment to use.
    — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Jan. 2021
  • The new field will be used by many of the high school athletic programs, physical education programs and youth programs.
    — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2020
  • Night schools offer a slate of subjects from math to physical education.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Led by the school’s physical education teacher, Keith Adams, a burly and effervescent deaf man whose two deaf sons are also on the team, the Cubs are a fast and hard-hitting squad.
    — New York Times, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Smith was hired at the school as a history and physical education teacher in 1972 and began his coaching career in wrestling.
    — Alex Kushel, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Oct. 2021
  • Gail worked as a high school physical education teacher but left to start a family.
    — courant.com, 10 Nov. 2019
  • Andy and Kristin are longtime physical education teachers and coaches at the school.
    — Tim Meehan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2024
  • The money went to the school’s physical education program.
    — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Connie Oliphant, 81, swam on her college swim team and became one of the first Black physical education teachers in Charlotte.
    — Jen Tota McGivney, Southern Living, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Raul Salazar, who oversees the district’s health and physical education department, said Navia had pushed for the outdoor upgrade for at least two years.
    — Laura Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 2 Nov. 2020
  • For middle and high schools, physical education classes could have no more than 50 students, down from 60.
    — Sam Schulz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2023
  • None of the tips released this week took on that tone, although one woman used the tip line to draw the governor’s attention to standout physical education teachers around the state.
    — Nate Jones, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Off the football field, Chaka is a health and physical education teacher in the Virginia Beach public school system.
    — Homero De La Fuente and Jason Hanna, CNN, 5 Mar. 2021
  • For two decades, James directed Methuen’s cross-country program and taught physical education at the school.
    — Aj Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Prior to serving as dean, Jones was a physical education teacher for 10 years and a dean’s assistant at Neuqua Valley for one year.
    — Joseph Ruzich, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Jason Hall is currently a health and physical education teacher at the high school.
    — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The school’s physical education teacher, Brian McAllister, chose students to be divvied up between a red team and a blue team.
    — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2024
  • So physical education teachers in Mesquite are taking them to the students.
    — Jon Arnold, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Neil Miguez, physical education teacher at the high school, was Wilson’s cross country coach.
    — Bill Jones, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Vince Richardson, 61, a former football coach and physical education teacher, knows firsthand the benefits of these new treatments.
    — Elizabeth B. Kim, The Enquirer, 24 June 2024
  • Other requests include scooter-boards for physical education classes in Danbury, T-shirts and snacks for a student yoga club in Bridgeport and headphones for state testing in Hartford.
    — Jessika Harkay, Hartford Courant, 3 Feb. 2024

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