How to Use boarding school in a Sentence

boarding school

noun
  • She was sent to boarding school when she was nine.
  • He attended a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts.
  • As a teen-ager, Pamela pleaded to be sent to boarding school.
    Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Willie is sent to boarding school and is caught stealing food on campus one night.
    Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Like my boarding school, these fitness options are not built for me either.
    Addis Fouche, Glamour, 24 Feb. 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 teenagers at Green’s Alabama boarding school drink, smoke, swear, and fumble their way through life.
    Emma Sarappo, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2022
  • As a boy, Grossbaum went to a Hebrew boarding school in Chicago.
    Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Part of that issue was taking children from their communities and sending them to boarding school.
    Madison Feller, ELLE, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Variety still isn’t there in the boarding school literature space, or in the wider media in general.
    Kendra James, Town & Country, 22 Jan. 2022
  • While these horrific conditions at Indigenous boarding schools may be gone, their effects linger.
    Natalie Eilbert, Journal Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2024
  • In 2017, at least nine students died when a boarding school in the capital Nairobi erupted in flames.
    Larry Madowo, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Battles at home led to banishment to an all-girls religious boarding school in high school—a lonely, depressing period for Cohen.
    courant.com, 1 Mar. 2022
  • In this boarding school, the living are scarier than the ghosts.
    Emiliano Granada, Variety, 6 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The story follows a wealthy girl who's sent to live in a New York boarding school when her father is sent off to war.
    Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The day of filming, a lot of us just broke down in tears seeing all the kids running around in these boarding school costumes.
    Kate Nelson, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Sep. 2023

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