How to Use prep school in a Sentence

prep school

noun
  • The coach that took him there left the prep school after two weeks on the job.
    NBC News, 19 Dec. 2020
  • Belichick and Adams go way back — all the way to prep school.
    BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2021
  • The visiting team was from St. Luke's, a prep school in New Canaan.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Drape a sweater vest over this button-down, and the look just went from prep school to Parisian street fashion.
    Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2023
  • The play is a coming-of-age story of young Black prep school students.
    Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 24 June 2021
  • For Trey and other students at the prestigious prep school, the speed and the scale of the loss were dizzying.
    Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The setting is an all-boys New England prep school on the cusp of a two-week Christmas break.
    Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Oct. 2023
  • So, his plans are to head down to Happy, Texas for a year of a prep school also nicknamed the Celtics.
    Jeff Vorva, chicagotribune.com, 17 Apr. 2021
  • One of the state’s top basketball prospects is leaving for prep school.
    Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Think prep school and collegiate days, a mix of heritage pieces with a sporty edge.
    Jaclyn Alexandra Cohen, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Starr lives with her foot in two worlds: her poor Black neighborhood and her rich white prep school.
    Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, 25 June 2018
  • No longer just a prep school staple, loafers are the perfect shoe to take you from work to play—no matter the season.
    Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Another one of the top high school basketball prospects in the state is headed to prep school.
    Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 19 July 2023
  • Coleman is from Belgium and played at a Kansas prep school.
    Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Sent to the Taft prep school in Connecticut, the young man honed his tennis and academic skills.
    James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 17 June 2022
  • That would have entailed a trip to prep school to develop his game for college.
    Sam Brief, chicagotribune.com, 27 Dec. 2020
  • There’s also an under-19 team that can keep girls around longer instead of forcing them to leave the area to go to prep school for hockey.
    Stephen Whyno, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Grzelcyk, a Charlestown product, played in the first-ever prep school game at Fenway.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Several of the top in-state players have transferred to prep schools in recent years.
    Kyle Neddenriep, Indianapolis Star, 7 July 2018
  • That prep school closed and Jordan then enrolled at Central State.
    Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 13 Aug. 2021
  • But during his stay at the private prep school, Fitzgerald learned a lot about himself.
    Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Nothing says fall like a nostalgia movies at an east coast prep school.
    Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 22 Sep. 2022
  • On Thursday, Veterans Day, Maisel will lead a program at the prep school.
    Phil Gast, CNN, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The home, formerly a prep school, is across the street from a home owned by Bill Cosby and has been valued at about $77 million.
    orlandosentinel.com, 8 July 2019
  • The reason for playing at a prep school is to enable Bates to play against some of the top players in the country at other prep schools.
    Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 30 June 2020
  • Pate isn’t the first Dallas-area standout to transfer to a prep school this offseason.
    Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Even though Rory then had to take a half-hour bus ride to get to her fancy prep school Chilton in another town.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 26 May 2021
  • Nicholson will have to earn one during the season or possibly go to a prep school next year.
    Mike Hutton, chicagotribune.com, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Over five years, the film follows two young Black teenagers in Chicago who get recruited to play basketball at an upscale prep school.
    Eric Farwell and Chris Bellamy, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Five hundred boys have attended the academy over three decades, with 98% going on to finish high school, often at the best prep schools in the region.
    Joseph C. Lombard, Baltimore Sun, 1 Mar. 2024

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