school bus

noun

: a vehicle used for transporting children to or from school or on activities connected with school

Examples of school bus in a Sentence

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Sitting in the back of the school bus, Ricci smirked at the camera in one photo, wearing big sunglasses. Hannah Sacks, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024 The biggest business in town is the Blue Bird Corporation, one of the country’s largest manufacturers of school buses. Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024 No larger than the size of a standard school bus, the North Fork Voting House had one window, a screen door, and a leaky metal roof. Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2024 Or on city bus trips that might take up to two hours in each direction, because the routes aren’t designed for students the way that school bus routes are? Eli Hager, ProPublica, 12 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for school bus 

Word History

First Known Use

1908, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of school bus was in 1908

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“School bus.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/school%20bus. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.

Kids Definition

school bus

noun
: a vehicle for transporting children to and from school

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