How to Use reform school in a Sentence

reform school

noun

• At 15, he was sent to a boys ranch in lieu of reform school.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2022
• Once, her parents sent her to a reform school for three weeks.
  — Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2024
• And, for the boys sentenced to a reform school in the Jim Crow South, how few avenues there are to escape it.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2019
• In her teens, she was arrested for shoplifting and sent to reform schools.
  — Joe Coscarelli, New York Times, 27 July 2023
• Another was a juvenile at the time of the attack and was sentenced to three years in a reform school.
  — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2019
• When the census threatens to expose his flight from reform school, Simón hides him in a cupboard.
  — Christian Lorentzen, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• The name was later changed to Manual because many thought the old name sounded like a reform school.
  — Arika Herron, The Indianapolis Star, 20 July 2021
• Is arrested for shoplifting and is sent to reform school.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 22 June 2021
• Well, some think Army-Navy is a reform school — a place where parents send their troubled boys for a dose of discipline.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
• Meanwhile, the team talks to a former classmate whom Amanda had called out of the blue a few weeks ago, asking for photos from the reform school.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 9 May 2023
• The book is fiction, but is based on the true story of a Florida reform school that hid decades of abuse against its residents.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2024
• The Santa Clarita Diet actress shared that she, too, was taken to a reform school.
  — Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 23 Sep. 2020
• Papadaches, who lived in the same building as Kelly, had just been released from reform school, where he had been sent after rolling a drunk.
  — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 10 July 2020
• Children as young as 2 were warehoused at this brutal and corrupt reform school.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
• Many of them were buried in unmarked graves, graves found only after the brutal reform school was finally closed in 2011.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 18 July 2019
• Engel interweaves the story of the family’s fracture with scenes of the youngest child, Talia, who was sent back to Colombia as a baby, in a reform school.
  — The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
• As a boy growing up in Baltimore, Ruth spoke German, before being sent off as a 7-year-old to reform school.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2020
• The family was living on the grounds of a reform school for boys, outside the town of Stevenstone, where his father had taken a job as a janitor.
  — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
• In one extreme case, a six-year-old was sentenced to forty-five days in a reform school for bringing a Cub Scouts camping utensil, which included a knife, to school.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 7 June 2022
• The cantilevered saddle is long enough for two-up riding (passenger footpegs are standard), so your mom can pick you up from reform school.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
• Sure, some Mikes seem easy to love — as D’Amato tells the former reform school kid in one of their many father-son moments — but other Mikes much less so, and connecting them harder still.
  — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2022
• In the 1930s, the prison site served as a state reform school that tried to rehabilitate wayward New York City boys with chores tending vegetables, cows and chickens.
  — WSJ, 31 May 2021
• Despite what might have been the best intentions of some, the reform school experience of the 1950s had many brutalizing aspects about it.
  — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
• The New York Times previously reported that as a child, Fitzgerald was sent to a reform school by a family court order.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 2 Apr. 2018
• Kaduna state governor Nasir el-Rufai ordered the raid on the Islamic reform school in Rigasa, officials said.
  — Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2019
• So efforts to reform schools and improve teaching would result in more children enrolling in (and completing) school.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• At the time, Tillinghast hadn’t been living at home for almost a year; she’d been sent to a reform school for girls after pleading guilty to a possession of marijuana charge.
  — Bianca Hillier, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2017
• The approach to the little reform school in the woods seemed to be from a storybook, a winding road bringing new students to its remote campus, with dormitories and a red barn perched beside a pond.
  — New York Times, 14 Jan. 2022
• In some ways, the concept of the heads had been in the making their whole lives: The Anglin brothers reportedly enjoyed making dummies as kids and used them to escape their Florida reform school, the book states.
  — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 21 July 2024
• The move comes after the state legislature passed House Bill 3, an $11.5 billion law that reformed school finance and reduced property taxes in June.
  — Chris Shelton, Houston Chronicle, 11 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024