How to Use school-age in a Sentence

school-age

adjective
  • 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
  • Carter was the fifth school-age child killed in Baltimore this year.
    Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Neil is also the proud grandfather to eight grandchildren, who range from school-age kids to young adults.
    Francesca Gariano, Peoplemag, 4 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Sargassum odors have led to an increase in nausea and headaches among school-age children.
    Farah Nibbs, The Conversation, 4 June 2024
  • 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
  • Meanwhile, her school-age daughter eats right after school.
    Melissa Willets, Parents, 20 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • The houses on Ridgewood Road and Jacobo Lane do not have school-age children residing in them.
    Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 20 Mar. 2024
  • School-board-election voters tend to be older than parents of school-age children.
    Charles Homans, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In Kentucky, the share of school-age children in public schools decreased by almost 8 percentage points.
    Catherine Allen, NBC News, 21 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • The faux-biopic gave a glimpse of pivotal moments in Savage’s upbringing, such as facing bullies during his school-age years.
    Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Charlene has brought along her school-age daughter, Rainey, and her infant son, whom Charlene quickly hands off to the pliant newcomer.
    Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The same goes for the stability control, which is as overworked as a Dickensian school-age coal miner and will happily let the tail out for a few seconds at a time.
    Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 3 July 2023
  • Roughly 80% of school-age girls in the country were not in school, according to the report, and women are banned from attending universities.
    Andy Weir, NBC News, 5 July 2024
  • In Egypt, where nearly a third of the population lives in poverty, Halima Rabie has struggled for years to feed her five school-age children.
    Paul Wiseman and David McHugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Feb. 2023
  • LaSalle and her husband, Ryan, have two school-age children, so creating a central hub was a priority.
    Olivia Hosken, House Beautiful, 13 July 2023
  • The number of school-age children with the disease in Japan kept climbing, despite a falling birthrate, hinting that more and more children were being exposed to its mystery cause each year.
    Emily Baumgaertner Ariana Drehsler, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • In 1989, the government also created a junior duck stamp program to help teach school-age children about conservation.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The annual statewide two-day teachers' conference — a rarity in the U.S. — upends normal life in Minnesota as parents of many of the nearly 1 million school-age kids pack their bags for spring break in October.
    Nick Halter, Axios, 16 Oct. 2024

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