How to Use kindergartner in a Sentence
kindergartner
noun-
At the school, kindergartners who once ran around the lunch room now sit in neat rows.
— Michelle Hackman, WSJ, 17 May 2018 -
The chairs that go with those tables are low enough for the fifth-graders but too high for the kindergartners.
— Erin Sauder, Elgin Courier-News, 2 Apr. 2018 -
The mom of three has been juggling a 2-year-old, a preschooler and a kindergartner.
— Emma Talley, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 May 2021 -
Michael Podolsky of Deerfield watched son Austin, 5, a kindergartner, play a bean bag toss game on the lawn in the park.
— Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2022 -
Imagine if one of those kindergartners got a hold of the fentanyl.
— Stephanie Farr, Philly.com, 8 Sep. 2017 -
Maybe Dad folds laundry on the couch while his kindergartner builds a block tower on the floor.
— Rachel Feintzeig, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2021 -
The first day of school for kindergartners and Soaring Eagles Preschool is Aug. 26.
— cleveland.com, 9 Aug. 2019 -
Six years ago, Eilidh Lowery taught a kindergartner how to write his name.
— oregonlive.com, 27 June 2019 -
After the second-graders, who dined at 10:30 a.m., came the kindergartners.
— Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023 -
Hanna and John Toman dropped off their kindergartner for the first time, along with his third- and fourth-grade siblings.
— Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2020 -
In the most recent school year, there were more than 1,800 kindergartners in such programs across the county.
— Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2019 -
Inside the school, kindergartners-to-eighth-graders donned the same navy blue bottoms and white button-down tops.
— Kelly Glass, Washington Post, 30 July 2019 -
Who will ensure kindergartners keep their hands out of their mouths?
— Jill Tucker, SFChronicle.com, 4 May 2020 -
White handprints dot the wall as if kindergartners had been playing with paint.
— Brian J. Cantwell, The Seattle Times, 31 May 2017 -
The kindergartner is the couple’s oldest of their four children.
— Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 9 Aug. 2022 -
You, me, our cousins, nieces, nephews, uncles, aunts, parents, those kids across the street, kindergartners in Des Moines.
— Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 31 Jan. 2020 -
Kindergartners are used to sticker charts, where good behavior gets them stars that are displayed in front of the whole class.
— Yuliya Chernova, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2017 -
Her kindergartner has autism and has been back in school in-person since January.
— Jennifer Calfas, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2021 -
The family, which includes kindergartner Jimmy Miller, had searched for the pup for five hours.
— Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, 6 Apr. 2018 -
Ban said that at the end of the graduation dress rehearsal, kindergartners through seventh-graders met with eighth-graders to share a song in a nod to the school mascot, the tiger.
— Karie Angell Luc, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2017 -
At the school, J. escorted one of his daughters, a kindergartner, to her classroom.
— New York Times, 28 Jan. 2021 -
What began in a church choir as a kindergartner now finds a cinematic bookend in Tran’s 30s, with a role and a prayer.
— Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2021 -
The Soloves’ kindergartner, Ezra, has already come up with a rebuilding plan.
— Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2022 -
Random works of a kindergartner’s finger painting are more pleasing to the eye.
— Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Apr. 2018 -
One day, my kindergartner went over to say hello and visit her 'auntie' — the same time my friend's husband came home for lunch.
— Charlotte Hilton Andersen, Redbook, 11 Sep. 2017 -
One day my kindergartner chose one of those handheld back massagers.
— Charlotte Hilton Andersen, Redbook, 3 Mar. 2017 -
Eventually Ryan, then a kindergartner, punched the bully in the face.
— Greg Bishop, SI.com, 26 June 2018 -
Shatavia Dorsey, the mother of a kindergartner and a fifth grader, said her children are going to wear their masks at school regardless of the rules.
— Jeff Amy, chicagotribune.com, 6 Aug. 2021 -
Zoom in: Waivers are most prolific in southwest Utah, where 15.6% of last year's kindergartners obtained exemptions.
— Erin Alberty, Axios, 17 Sep. 2024 -
When my father was a kindergartner in Hungary, he and his mother were crushed among thousands of starving concentration-camp victims on a train bound for Auschwitz.
— Maia Szalavitz, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
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