How to Use finishing school in a Sentence

finishing school

noun

• The aim is for the student to finish school with a purpose and a plan for the future.
  — Bob Gathany, AL.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• Their next was for child care so Sara could finish school.
  — Eli Saslow, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2020
• The class of 2020 is not the first bunch of graduates to finish school at a deeply uneasy time.
  — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 1 June 2020
• The children had finished school for the day and were headed to a blacksmith to have their horse fitted with new shoes.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2019
• If black people would just move to the suburbs, marry, finish school, train up and play by the rules, the gap would vanish.
  — Calvin Schermerhorn, Twin Cities, 27 June 2019
• Adam wants to finish school and have a happy and successful life.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2019
• Would taking a break harm your chances of finishing school?
  — Nerd Wallet, oregonlive, 1 June 2020
• People that really know me try to tell me to finish school.
  — Greg Moore, azcentral, 21 Mar. 2018
• Some of those young people end up homeless and have a hard time finishing school.
  — Julia O'Donoghue, NOLA.com, 3 June 2018
• Lu's wife, 31-year-old Yang Li, was inside their home waiting for their 7-year-old son to finish school.
  — Nicole Darrah, Fox News, 24 June 2018
• In that time, the Martins managed to stay healthy, settle business and finish school.
  — Lori Nickel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 June 2020
• Rodriguez-Lopez dreamed of owning a house and finishing school, Quiroz said.
  — oregonlive, 18 Jan. 2022
• There was always this part of me that wondered about finishing school.
  — Cameron Glover, Allure, 19 Oct. 2019
• The salad sits on a puddle of toum mixed with tahini and eats like a gyro — a gyro sent to finishing school, that is.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• Most students have finished school for the semester and are out of town for Memorial Day.
  — Delaney Strunk, CNN, 23 June 2019
• Did Berry Gordy put you through Motown finishing school?
  — Seth Abramovitch, Billboard, 18 Jan. 2021
• The fall league, which is considered a finishing school for baseball’s top prospects, was not played last year due to the pandemic.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 20 Sep. 2021
• Among the most common are adult-children who have finished school but continue to live with their parents.
  — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 22 Aug. 2019
• Marie, who is 27 and asked not to be identified by her full name, got sober, finished school and landed a job at Recovery Point.
  — NBC News, 30 Apr. 2018
• Now in the care of her two older brothers, who want to ship her off to a finishing school, Enola escapes through London to find her mom.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 25 June 2020
• Sierra Vista High senior Johnny Sen had all but given up on the idea of finishing school.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2021
• After finishing school in February of 1931, Donoghue went home to New York.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Sep. 2020
• The Messengers had been the premier finishing school for straight-ahead jazz talent for decades, as Blakey brought in a stream of young musicians to fill its ranks.
  — New York Times, 7 Mar. 2021
• Most of its members have not finished school, said the group’s vice president, Drissa Keita.
  — Anna Pujol-Mazzini, latimes.com, 17 June 2019
• Frank's mother grew up in and around Prague and attended finishing school in Switzerland.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 9 June 2023
• All the research shows that students like her might take a really long time to finish school, and at the same time, that degree will really pay off for her.
  — Marcella Bombardieri, The Atlantic, 30 May 2018
• It’s hard to find things to do to keep your mind off things like not finishing school or not being able to play another game in an Argyle uniform.
  — Dallas News, 25 May 2020
• Her mother was the one who elected for a move to Atlanta, where Tierra finished school, worked, and began recording music.
  — Ivie Ani, Teen Vogue, 10 Mar. 2020
• Her parents were anti-fascists and Anglophile and sent their daughter away to a finishing school in Kent, England.
  — Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 5 July 2021
• In other words, this is a young man with money who attended a right-wing finishing school—again, nothing out of the ordinary in today’s GOP.
  — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 19 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024