How to Use schoolhouse in a Sentence

schoolhouse

noun
  • The Gallery on the Green is housed in a schoolhouse, circa 1872.
    courant.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • School boards grew out of the culture of the one-room schoolhouse.
    WSJ, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Birds wake up in the eaves of the schoolhouse, chirping as the sun streams in through the windows.
    Leah Sottile, Longreads, 18 May 2018
  • The torch is long gone, but the schoolhouse now appears here to stay.
    David Maraniss, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
  • The school is a one-room schoolhouse for about a dozen students, in grades K-3.
    Jessica Flint, WSJ, 28 July 2022
  • Make the march to the schoolhouse door a new tradition.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Even the bell out front, the original bell from the old 1893 schoolhouse, sits on the state line.
    Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 3 July 2019
  • The steps of the old schoolhouse still climb toward an entrance, but the doors and brick walls are gone.
    Anne Burke, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Her younger sister may find the schoolhouse door closed to her.
    Wencong Fa, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2021
  • The village’s old schoolhouse is also gone, and so is the building that used to be the church.
    Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2020
  • The schoolhouse now sat on a trailer—Banyai tried to argue that this met the terms of the court’s order.
    Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Then came the decades of dense, cedar overgrowth that blotted the historic schoolhouse from the world.
    Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 22 June 2019
  • The group also is selling 4-inch by 8-inch bricks that will line the walkway to the schoolhouse.
    cleveland.com, 28 June 2019
  • Along with standard scares, the schoolhouse offers behind-the-scenes and lights-on tours for the timid.
    Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Installed in a defunct schoolhouse, the feds wired him up to record for two days straight.
    Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Joining him is Jorge de Yarza, 40, who owns a tapas bar less than a block away from the schoolhouse.
    Allegra Hobbs, New York Times, 1 June 2018
  • Sad to say, not even Catholic schools are immune to the latest schoolhouse fad.
    Grazie Pozo Christie, National Review, 20 May 2021
  • The decor is very retro pastel, with schoolhouse lamps and displays of cake stands in jadeite and rose glass.
    Devra First, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Right now, members are trying to find the best place for the bell from the District 7 one-room schoolhouse.
    Sam Boyer, cleveland, 18 June 2020
  • Nick Saban and his players stood in the schoolhouse door.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The schoolhouse doors open at 7:30 p.m. Friday and tickets are sold in 2-hour time slots.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Part of its draw is the eerie backstory of the old schoolhouse in the Dent section of Green Township.
    Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The winds of backlash have shifted, the schoolhouse is on fire and the hose is needed elsewhere.
    Naveen Kumar, Variety, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Hale Farm and Village in Bath Township offers schoolhouse chats, as well as the arts and crafts of the time.
    Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 1 Apr. 2021
  • In a field beside an empty schoolhouse, the city has set up a 50-ft wide stage with a tent for shade.
    al, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Around that time the old schoolhouse in Ellison Bay came up for sale.
    Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2022
  • And some are less sanguine about just throwing open the schoolhouse gates.
    Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 25 June 2020
  • Behind him are the tribe’s museum, left, and its old schoolhouse on the right.
    Washington Post, 5 May 2018
  • The Republican Party was born in the town in 1854, in a one-room schoolhouse.
    Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The small city of Ripon, in eastern Wisconsin, is perhaps best known as the home of a historic one-room schoolhouse where the Republican Party was formed in 1854.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2024

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