How to Use elementary in a Sentence

elementary

adjective
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  • He is lacking even the most elementary notions of fairness.
  • The researchers made an elementary error.
  • He has an elementary understanding of calculus.
  • The Bible had been on the shelves in about seven to eight elementary and junior high schools in the district.
    — oregonlive, 3 June 2023
  • The elementary students picked up their sticks, and the game began.
    — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The middle school team has 14 players, while the elementary team has 10.
    — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
  • Remember, this is Legoland, steered to the 2-to-12-year-old set, so the tasks are fairly elementary.
    — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Police described the father as having five children between elementary and high school age who were in the area at the time of the fall.
    — Greg Norman, Fox News, 3 July 2023
  • For at least 10 elementary and middle schools, the latest buses arrived at the school around 5 p.m.
    — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The state has not yet released scores for elementary and middle schoolers; those will come Aug. 16.
    — Talia Richman, Dallas News, 30 June 2023
  • Around 6 feet of snow covered the roads to the camps where about 600 elementary and middle school students had been staying since Tuesday.
    — Nathan Solisstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • This book is a novel for elementary schoolers, and tells the story of Alex, a high school girl who moves to Boreen Point, Australia and begins restoring a yacht.
    — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Instead, it could be used for an elementary or middle school.
    — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
  • North and Saint weren’t included in the big announcement, but the two elementary schoolers are listed among the cast on the movie’s official IMDb page.
    — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2023
  • A far cry from taking care of them as infants or toddlers or elementary/middle school age kids.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
  • What’s more, the company’s Bake for Good program teaches students in elementary to high school how to bake bread from scratch, then donates it to those in need.
    — Kristen (kj) Callihan, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2023
  • How often do elementary students bring guns to school and shoot someone?
    — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2023
  • In the 1950s, leaders of the school began planning the move to Towson to accommodate the growing number of applicants to the elementary and high schools.
    — Katia Parks, Baltimore Sun, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Teen-agers in the Hays County region overdosed, but did not die, in an elementary-school parking lot, during class, and in school bathrooms.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The youngest of four, my mom lived in the then-burgeoning neighborhood of La Sierra, when homes were just starting to be developed and the elementary and high school had yet to be built.
    — Danielle Dorsey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The design phase for the elementary facilities project will get under way this fall.
    — cleveland, 18 July 2023
  • Most scams follow an elementary bait-and-switch technique, where the scoundrel lures you in with attractive bait and then, at the right time, switches to a different option.
    — WIRED, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The Johnsons, perhaps better than anyone, knew just how wrong the elementary schooler was.
    — Brandi Kellam and Louis Hansen, Virginia Center For Investigative Journalism At Whro, Essence, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Harwell was to elementary schoolers what Jimmy Buffett, who died Friday, was to many of their dads.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Another elementary teacher in the district, LaTasha Olsen, tries to avoid even driving past it.
    — Jenny Vrentas, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • For elementary and middle schools, students must be accompanied by a parent, and the parent must remain at the event for students to stay at the game.
    — William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The state spent a great deal of time and money to make sure that all early elementary teachers were adept at the teaching of reading through a system of Reading Academies.
    — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
  • As elementary students in Anaheim headed back to school, a Times photographer was on hand to record the morning.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • With instructors provided by the tribe, Duchesne has one class for elementary students, who must choose to give up their recess to take it.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 July 2023
  • Kristin Hannah was in elementary and middle school during the Vietnam War.
    — Suzanne S. Brown, The Denver Post, 8 Feb. 2024

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