How to Use day student in a Sentence

day student

noun
  • Statistics bear out that today’s boarding school students succeed at significantly higher rates than even day students at private schools.
    Gerald Bradshaw, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2023
  • George will be a day student, along with his two siblings.
    Monique Jessen, Peoplemag, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The only full day students will have to make up is March 30, which was formerly a day off.
    Jerry Fallstrom, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Both Orange and Seminole have announced which days students will need to go to school to make up for the six days lost to Irma.
    Leslie Postal, OrlandoSentinel.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • In just a few days, all the day students were transferred. Classrooms were rearranged.
    New York Times, 28 Dec. 2019
  • In Ohio, this may require staggering which days students come to school.
    Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 17 May 2020
  • About 500 are expected to live in dormitories, and the rest will be day students.
    Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2018
  • These are values that are core to the mission and purpose of a college, and they should be taught starting the first day students arrive on campus.
    Greg Lukianoff, National Review, 1 July 2019
  • Freyer is assigned to Arrowhead full time on days students are in school.
    Alec Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 May 2018
  • Among them was Rory Kennealy, a 17-year-old day student from Lexington.
    Nancy Shohet West, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
  • The last of the victims, Martin Duque, a soccer-loving freshman, was laid to rest Sunday, the same day students returned to campus for a brief orientation.
    The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Phillips Academy serves 1,130 boarding and day students.
    John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Upon my first day students were running around, screaming, throwing, hitting, swearing — a lot of awful things.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Some states are considering alternating which days students attend school or splitting the day into two shifts to help decrease class sizes.
    Lily Altavena, azcentral, 28 May 2020
  • As the school’s admissions director explains during a trip to China to interview applicants, Fryeburg, which has both boarding and day students, depends on the tuition paid by the parents of foreign students.
    New York Times, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Affirmative action:The next legal battle over race and education has already begun Students vow continued resistance Earlier in the day students joined religious and political leaders in a large protest before the board meeting.
    Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023

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