How to Use schoolhouse in a Sentence

schoolhouse

noun
Definition of schoolhousenext
  • The Gallery on the Green is housed in a schoolhouse, circa 1872.
    — courant.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • School boards grew out of the culture of the one-room schoolhouse.
    — WSJ, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The torch is long gone, but the schoolhouse now appears here to stay.
    — David Maraniss, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
  • The school is a one-room schoolhouse for about a dozen students, in grades K-3.
    — Jessica Flint, WSJ, 28 July 2022
  • Make the march to the schoolhouse door a new tradition.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Her younger sister may find the schoolhouse door closed to her.
    — Wencong Fa, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2021
  • The village’s old schoolhouse is also gone, and so is the building that used to be the church.
    — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2020
  • The schoolhouse now sat on a trailer—Banyai tried to argue that this met the terms of the court’s order.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Along with standard scares, the schoolhouse offers behind-the-scenes and lights-on tours for the timid.
    — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Installed in a defunct schoolhouse, the feds wired him up to record for two days straight.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Sad to say, not even Catholic schools are immune to the latest schoolhouse fad.
    — Grazie Pozo Christie, National Review, 20 May 2021
  • Right now, members are trying to find the best place for the bell from the District 7 one-room schoolhouse.
    — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 18 June 2020
  • Nick Saban and his players stood in the schoolhouse door.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The schoolhouse doors open at 7:30 p.m. Friday and tickets are sold in 2-hour time slots.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Part of its draw is the eerie backstory of the old schoolhouse in the Dent section of Green Township.
    — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The winds of backlash have shifted, the schoolhouse is on fire and the hose is needed elsewhere.
    — Naveen Kumar, Variety, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Hale Farm and Village in Bath Township offers schoolhouse chats, as well as the arts and crafts of the time.
    — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 1 Apr. 2021
  • In a field beside an empty schoolhouse, the city has set up a 50-ft wide stage with a tent for shade.
    — al, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Around that time the old schoolhouse in Ellison Bay came up for sale.
    — Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2022
  • And some are less sanguine about just throwing open the schoolhouse gates.
    — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 25 June 2020
  • Taunton went to school in a two-room schoolhouse and still proclaims to have the DNA of that small-town boy running through his veins.
    — Rod Berger, Forbes, 5 May 2022
  • Ten years later, a two-story red brick schoolhouse was built at the site.
    — Douglas C. Towne, The Arizona Republic, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The schoolhouse is bordered by acres of woods and a creek for idyllic morning walks.
    — Meg St-Esprit, Good Housekeeping, 29 Dec. 2022
  • In the room is a rope tied to a bell on the roof, which led the Crooks family to believe the office was once used as a schoolhouse.
    — Laura Bednar, cleveland, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Their children went to the local schoolhouse until the sixth grade.
    — J. David Goodman, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The dining area is in the middle of it all, an old schoolhouse table flanked by Era chairs by Michael Thonet.
    — Samantha Weiss Hills, Curbed, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Learning does not stop or start at the schoolhouse doorways.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
  • There was a schoolhouse with a turf roof from western Norway.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Some, McIntire said, walk away with their own plans to construct a schoolhouse.
    — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The one-third scale replica of the schoolhouse was constructed by Ripon High School students for parades and city events.
    — Journal Sentinel, 16 July 2024

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