How to Use boarding school in a Sentence

boarding school

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  • She was sent to boarding school when she was nine.
  • He attended a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts.
  • The pair has known each other since Catholic boarding school.
    — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The Culver Academies, a top-notch private boarding school for grades 9-12, is in the heart of the town.
    — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2024
  • He was sent to a private boarding school at 12 and rarely heard from his parents.
    — Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
  • Kalari Rasayana has the feel of a sanatorium merged with a strict boarding school.
    — Jane Alexander, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Feb. 2024
  • At the age of thirteen, Rushdie was sent off to Rugby, a centuries-old British boarding school.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • And then the other thing about the boarding school offered was boarding in the world of the Addams Family.
    — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2022
  • At age 6, Sister Guèbrou was sent to a boarding school in Switzerland.
    — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The kids were all home-schooled until 14, when they were sent to a Jewish boarding school in Chicago.
    — Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Dec. 2022
  • The story follows a wealthy girl who's sent to live in a New York boarding school when her father is sent off to war.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The day of filming, a lot of us just broke down in tears seeing all the kids running around in these boarding school costumes.
    — Kate Nelson, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Having murdered Sister Mary (Jennifer Ehle) and escaped the boarding school, the abused girl is on the run.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The royals put on happy faces in order to send Prince William off to Eton College, a world-renowned boarding school, for the first time.
    — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Based on a synopsis of the movie, set in a boarding school in New England, the singer-songwriter signed off.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Like going to boarding school in Switzerland at 14 years old.
    — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The king has reportedly loved the cello since his time at boarding school.
    — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 27 Apr. 2023
  • In the end, the nepotistic institution feels more like a boarding school for their brats.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Stemming from the Latin word for a pupil, the short explores the desires of young girls at a strict religious boarding school at Christmas.
    — Julia MacCary, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
  • His daughter was away at boarding school because there was no in-person high school any more.
    — Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 9 July 2023
  • Set in 1970 over the holiday break at a boarding school, there’s plenty of nostalgia in the details.
    — Leanne Italie, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Ute students stand inside the boarding school in Whiterocks in this photo from the early 1900s.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 July 2023
  • Michael is at it again, finding Laurie in her new quiet life: teaching at a boarding school.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 14 Oct. 2022
  • His mother, also grieving, would have none of it and packed him up and drove him back to the Connecticut boarding school herself.
    — Kalpana Jain, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Like many children on the reservation at the time, Howe was sent with his brothers to an off-reservation boarding school.
    — oregonlive, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The all-boys boarding school with 1,350 students is just a short drive from the family's Adelaide Cottage home in Windsor.
    — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 10 July 2023
  • All eight episodes of the first season premiered at once, telling a spooky story about teenage Wednesday Addams' first year at boarding school.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Restless Matylda is not satisfied with the teachings instilled in the girls at her boarding school.
    — Carole Horst, Variety, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Many children were buried at cemeteries on or near the boarding schools’ grounds - sometimes in unmarked graves.
    — Dana Hedgpeth and Emmanuel Martinez, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Many children were buried at cemeteries on or near the boarding schools’ grounds — sometimes in unmarked graves.
    — Emmanuel Martinez, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023

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