How to Use schoolchild in a Sentence
schoolchild
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Ask any schoolchild how many hours are in a day and the response—24—will come quick and easy.
—Camille Bromley, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
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Dixon said he was brought as a schoolchild to the park where the Lee statue stood.
—Sarah Rankin, ajc, 11 July 2021
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A San Diego schoolchild who has perhaps lost their home in the wildfires.
—Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2007
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Put the bag in a backpack and give it to a schoolchild who lives with empty pantries and a growling stomach.
—Beth Thames, AL.com, 15 Mar. 2018
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Every schoolchild in the state knows about the Petoskey stone, the official state rock found mostly Up North.
—Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 24 Jan. 2020
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Malala started speaking in her school as a good schoolchild.
—National Geographic, 26 Feb. 2016
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But, every schoolchild knows Amazon Prime while few have heard of Walmart+.
—Walter Loeb, Forbes, 19 May 2021
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Every schoolchild in Denmark has been on a farm and seen someone chop off a chicken’s head.
—Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
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Under the best of circumstances, just about every New York City schoolchild will be online for class at least twice a week.
—Hillary Chura, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Oct. 2020
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Every schoolchild in Puerto Rico should still be exposed to the thrill of science.
—Mary Fillmore, Wired, 3 Dec. 2020
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And yet the object that carries all this meaning is such a modest one: a plain composition book, like the one a schoolchild would use.
—Sarah Chihaya, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2023
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With that, the pedagogue would dispatch some shivering schoolchild in vest and shorts on a three-mile cross-country run.
—The Economist, 9 Nov. 2019
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Every farmer can find it in her paddy, every fisherman can see it in his pond, every schoolchild can find it in the yard.
—Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2019
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Public fear of nukes appears to have abated somewhat from the time when every schoolchild had to practice duck-and-cover drills.
—The Editors, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2020
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Every schoolchild knows the accomplishments of Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart.
—Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 30 July 2021
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These are among the scars on this country that every American — schoolchild or adult, of any race — should learn about in detail, keep learning about and never forget.
—Roberta Smith, New York Times, 26 July 2019
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Matthew Callender remembers the excitement of seeing the queen and Philip in Barbados as a schoolchild in 1977.
—NBC News, 17 Apr. 2021
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Not without permission, as Tian knows, and so, like a schoolchild who needs a bathroom, Tian asks the troupe’s director, Meng, for leave to accept the invitation.
—Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
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Elise is far from the only schoolchild to happen upon an astonishing ancient artifact in the past few years.
—Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 May 2023
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As every schoolchild now knows, birds are dinosaurs, linked to their extinct relatives by feathers and anatomy.
—Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 2 May 2018
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As any schoolchild should know, elections require all citizens to tolerate views that differ from their own.
—Christopher Hill, The Denver Post, 4 Mar. 2017
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The zero here is not just a concept of nothingness (and something every schoolchild learns you are forbidden to divide by), but also a place holder.
—Amir Aczel, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2013
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But as every schoolchild knows, with every long finger of accusation that extends, three point back at the accuser.
—Lois McLatchie, National Review, 27 June 2021
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Obama, now out of office, seems unwilling to sit silently in the margins, like some Victorian schoolchild only to speak when spoken to.
—Nic Robertson, CNN, 9 May 2017
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As every schoolchild should know, China is Washington’s largest trading partner.
—Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 13 July 2017
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Often, there are numerous figures in his pictures, each Christmas-party dancer or playground adventurer or bored schoolchild given his or her own space and weight.
—David Campany, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
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As a schoolchild, Inna lived with her mother in a brutalist high-rise in Saltivka, a neighborhood dominated by such behemoths.
—Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
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The numbers behind this unique achievement are remarkable, and Butter can reel them off like a schoolchild reciting multiplication tables.
—George Ramsay, CNN, 9 Dec. 2019
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Ukrainka is often reduced to her youthful patriotic verses, which every schoolchild in Ukraine reads.
—Uilleam Blacker, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2022
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Every schoolchild knew exactly what dinosaurs were like: tail-dragging, cold-blooded, lumbering lizards, dumb as a box of sedimentary rocks.
—Michael Abrams, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2010
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