How to Use elementary school in a Sentence

elementary school

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  • Two elementary schools had merged and, at the time, the specter of other closures loomed.
    — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Matter of fact, most of us in my elementary school had lunch cards.
    — Udonis Haslem, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • But the district has to figure out what to do about the district’s many elementary schools.
    — Talia Richman, Dallas News, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Yoo first tasted the cake in elementary school in Queens, on a day students were asked to bring in a dish from their heritage.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Winds of 160 miles per hour destroyed an elementary school and ripped high-school bleachers from the ground.
    — Colbi Edmonds, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Since my elementary school days, movement has become a source of joy in my life.
    — Danielle Friedman, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024
  • By the end of elementary school, to Dalton’s relief, the stutter had faded away.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The last school the oldest boy, 15, attended was an elementary school, Vaughn said.
    — Hillary Borrud | , oregonlive, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Biden has said the law passed last year after a deadly mass shooting in a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school didn’t go far enough.
    — Colleen Long and Linley Sanders, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
  • But at least for a while, those steps into her elementary school marked a harder life, not a better one.
    — A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez, Parents, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Broward County, Florida is in the midst of a measles outbreak in an elementary school.
    — Mark Kortepeter, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • And just this past week, three 9-year-olds and three adults were shot and killed at an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee.
    — Mary Clare Jalonick, Chron, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Naloxone is not yet in the district's elementary schools.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Now the producer is giving kids in the country a jump on life by funding an elementary school near Guatemala City.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2023
  • But the worst of the congestion seems to be building north of Route 181, where new subdivisions have popped up and a new elementary school opened this year.
    — John Sharp | , al, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The mother of the 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher at a Virginia elementary school, has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for felony offenses.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The school district will discuss safety plans with students at the elementary school.
    — Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Kansas City Public Schools closed down two elementary schools at the beginning of this school year.
    — Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The two elementary school students were placed in the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice.
    — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Although she's been in the music industry for more than three decades, the singer threw it back even further — sharing a snap of herself at elementary school age in the post.
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 2 July 2023
  • His dad owned a car dealership; his mom taught elementary school.
    — Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Take Jessica*, 44, and Naomi*, 42, who both live in Seattle and have been friends since elementary school.
    — Allison Hope, Parents, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The Monday morning drop-off at a Massachusetts elementary school took an unusual turn when a large moose showed up and trudged through the line of cars.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Kendall was the only elementary school for the deaf in the city, but Black deaf students were not allowed to attend and were forced to go to other schools in Pennsylvania and Maryland.
    — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 22 July 2023
  • Last year, Wright and his grandmother even launched a Kindness Club at local elementary schools.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The story follows a 6-year-old boy, Armand, who is accused of crossing boundaries against his best friend at elementary school.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 26 June 2023
  • High school and middle school students would get two days off before e-learning, and elementary school students would get three.
    — Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 24 Jan. 2024
  • There’s Tia and her sister, Bobbie Lou, sitting in a car wearing pink tank tops and sunglasses, both still in elementary school.
    — Ashley Luthern, jsonline.com, 10 Apr. 2023
  • This is nicely sized for early elementary school years (up to around third grade), but older kids will want something bigger.
    — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 7 July 2023
  • The new school also drew from Blackridge and Hidden Hollow elementary schools.
    — Michael Lee, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023

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