How to Use school-age in a Sentence
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The contest, the first held at the fair in over 20 years, is open to all school-age youth.
—Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2024
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The first death was a school-age child in Gaines County, Texas, last week.
—Maria Godoy, NPR, 7 Mar. 2025
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Carter was the fifth school-age child killed in Baltimore this year.
—Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2023
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Those with school-age kids may need childcare once school is out.
—Katia Hetter, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
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What good happens on a mobile device for a school-age child between the hours of say, 11 p.m. and 5 a.m.?
—Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
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The video showed small children, who appeared to be younger than school-age, in the immediate area of the fist fight.
—Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 29 Mar. 2023
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The older, Anya, healthy and happy, had long lived with her husband and their two school-age children.
—Lyudmila Ulitskaya, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
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Only half of all school-age children in the region attend school.
—Ogar Monday, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Feb. 2025
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If your school-age child is getting less than five servings of fruit a day, give them a half cup of any of these fruits, three to five times a day.
—Amy Capetta, Parents, 13 June 2023
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His programs are available for all ages, but a good portion of his students are school-age.
—Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 12 July 2024
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Neil is also the proud grandfather to eight grandchildren, who range from school-age kids to young adults.
—Francesca Gariano, Peoplemag, 4 Nov. 2023
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Toma was the sponsor of the bill that in 2022 expanded Arizona's voucher program to every school-age child.
—The Arizona Republic, 2 Jan. 2024
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Sargassum odors have led to an increase in nausea and headaches among school-age children.
—Farah Nibbs, The Conversation, 4 June 2024
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When her children are school-age, Rachel gets together with her new group of mom friends, and the topic turns to how hard motherhood is.
—Hannah Seligson, ELLE, 27 Feb. 2023
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Meanwhile, her school-age daughter eats right after school.
—Melissa Willets, Parents, 20 Feb. 2024
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The San Gabriel mother of six shells out hundreds of dollars every summer to get her four school-age kids ready for the school year with new supplies, clothes and shoes.
—Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
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The houses on Ridgewood Road and Jacobo Lane do not have school-age children residing in them.
—Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 20 Mar. 2024
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Even then, after decades of robotics research, the robot did a worse job than some school-age children.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2025
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As older adults now outnumber school-age children in New York City, the need continues to grow.
—David Graver, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2024
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School-board-election voters tend to be older than parents of school-age children.
—Charles Homans, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
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In the second half of the 1800s, a group of Catholic missionaries gathered a group of school-age boys in French Polynesia and taught them how to grow, harvest and process pearl shells.
—Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
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Then, when the pandemic hit, the couple and their three school-age children, as well as Offit’s mother and brother, chose to decamp to the leafy idyll full-time.
—Sarah Lyon, Architectural Digest, 16 Aug. 2024
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The big idea Moms of school-age children get significantly less sleep during the school year than during the summer.
—Todd Jones, Fortune Well, 6 Aug. 2023
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Based on the books by Tony DiTerlizzi, this series is a great pick for families with school-age kids who are ready for adventure.
—Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
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Two people – a school-age child in Texas and a man in New Mexico, both unvaccinated – have died.
—Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025
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In Kentucky, the share of school-age children in public schools decreased by almost 8 percentage points.
—Catherine Allen, NBC News, 21 Apr. 2024
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Each state decides whether and how to mandate vaccines to school-age children, or during a pandemic.
—Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
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While cases had been higher in school-age kids compared to other age groups, rates in babies have surged in recent weeks, and are now tied with older kids.
—Alexander Tin, CBS News, 19 Nov. 2024
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On the Eastside, a steady stream of parents arrived amid a downpour and received a pack filled with six meals to tide over their school-age children for breakfast and lunch through Thursday.
—Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
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Last month, Texas announced the outbreak’s first death, a school-age child who was not vaccinated and had no underlying conditions.
—Neha Mukherjee, CNN, 21 Mar. 2025
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