How to Use schoolteacher in a Sentence

schoolteacher

noun
  • The lone male on-hand is August (Ben Whishaw), a schoolteacher.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Both are daughters of schoolteacher moms and banker-farmer dads.
    Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2024
  • His brother is a schoolteacher, and his sister works in a bank.
    Bob Carlton | Bcarlton@al.com, al, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Bliss in Adair County got its name from a beloved schoolteacher.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 8 Sep. 2023
  • If your mom’s a schoolteacher, you’re being taught 24/7.
    al, 14 Sep. 2022
  • McEachin, the son of an Army officer and a schoolteacher, was born in West Germany in 1961.
    Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Her father, a former schoolteacher, walked the girls to school every day and taught them to read.
    New York Times, 19 June 2022
  • Next up is Serene, 27, the sweet schoolteacher from Clayton's season.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2022
  • All seven on board were killed, including the first schoolteacher bound for space, Christa McAuliffe.
    Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2022
  • With his eyes on the prize, Ball, a schoolteacher, hopes to win the competition and pursue singing as a full-time career.
    Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Connie Moon, a retired schoolteacher with lightning white hair, was one of the jurors at the trial.
    Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 20 Nov. 2022
  • All seven on board died in the accident, including Christa McAuliffe, the first schoolteacher bound for space.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Fisher, a schoolteacher and cross-country coach, observed from the sidelines, impressed by the turnout.
    David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • All seven people on board were killed, including Christa McAuliffe, who was the first schoolteacher bound for space.
    Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Diana Toebbe, a former schoolteacher, was sentenced to 21 years in prison, while Jonathan Toebbe was sentenced to more than 18 years.
    Robert Legare, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2022
  • At the center: a schoolteacher tries to help a talented young artist, even as his prejudices seal the islander's fates.
    People Staff, Peoplemag, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Foy stars as a vengeful young mother named Salome, and Whishaw plays the male schoolteacher the women recruit to help take notes.
    Devan Coggan, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Rizzi, the former schoolteacher, said that perhaps the district needed to help parents do more at home to teach reading.
    Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 19 June 2023
  • Former schoolteacher Ryan Bethea was bartending at a Raleigh restaurant, ready for a change.
    Caroline Eubanks, Southern Living, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Jade hustled her way through her first months in New York after working as a schoolteacher post-college.
    Rolling Stone, 15 June 2023
  • His mother was a schoolteacher, his father a farmer and steelworker.
    Harrison Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
  • The film will follow Prani, a middle-aged schoolteacher, whose angry video goes viral and she gets trolled online.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 Oct. 2022
  • With them is a single man, the boys’ schoolteacher and the book’s narrator: the nervous but admiring August Epp (Ben Whishaw).
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Her father was an insurance agent, and her mother was a schoolteacher.
    Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 30 June 2022
  • The musician was a schoolteacher first, before forming Dr. Feelgood with friends, per The Guardian.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Gail Walton, a retired schoolteacher who was helping to lead the challenges, did not respond to a request for comment.
    John Sharp | Jsharp@al.com, al, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Balint – a former schoolteacher who has been in the statehouse since 2014 – is the frontrunner for Tuesday night’s primary.
    Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2022
  • In 1988, a Juneau schoolteacher declared that a baby had been ritually murdered in a city park.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2022
  • His father worked for the federal government, and his mother was a schoolteacher, his son said.
    Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
  • Mary Shannon McGillen, who is a schoolteacher and musician.
    Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 27 Oct. 2022

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