How to Use schoolchild in a Sentence

schoolchild

noun

• 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
• Dixon said he was brought as a schoolchild to the park where the Lee statue stood.
  — Sarah Rankin, ajc, 11 July 2021
• A San Diego schoolchild who has perhaps lost their home in the wildfires.
  — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2007
• 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
• 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
• Malala started speaking in her school as a good schoolchild.
  — National Geographic, 26 Feb. 2016
• But, every schoolchild knows Amazon Prime while few have heard of Walmart+.
  — Walter Loeb, Forbes, 19 May 2021
• 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
• 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
• Every schoolchild in Puerto Rico should still be exposed to the thrill of science.
  — Mary Fillmore, Wired, 3 Dec. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Every schoolchild knows the accomplishments of Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart.
  — Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 30 July 2021
• 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
• Matthew Callender remembers the excitement of seeing the queen and Philip in Barbados as a schoolchild in 1977.
  — NBC News, 17 Apr. 2021
• 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
• 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
• As every schoolchild now knows, birds are dinosaurs, linked to their extinct relatives by feathers and anatomy.
  — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 2 May 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• As every schoolchild should know, China is Washington’s largest trading partner.
  — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 13 July 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Ukrainka is often reduced to her youthful patriotic verses, which every schoolchild in Ukraine reads.
  — Uilleam Blacker, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2022
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024