How to Use boarding school in a Sentence

boarding school

noun
  • She was sent to boarding school when she was nine.
  • He attended a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts.
  • The play was about a girls boarding school in the 1990s.
    — Madison Douglas, Seventeen, 21 Sep. 2021
  • The school is a girls' Catholic boarding school, run by nuns.
    — Rachel Donohue, Star Tribune, 16 July 2021
  • At the height of the boarding school era, Arizona had 59 schools.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Most of the instances took place at the elite boarding school.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2021
  • This was part of what the boarding school process was doing.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2021
  • At the outset of World War II, she was sent away to a boarding school.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 15 Jan. 2022
  • Then, she and her twin are sent away to an all-girls boarding school for a fresh start.
    — Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2021
  • My son, Noah, is away at boarding school and the kids are going to stay there.
    — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2020
  • In this boarding school, the living are scarier than the ghosts.
    — Emiliano Granada, Variety, 6 Apr. 2022
  • As a teen-ager, Pamela pleaded to be sent to boarding school.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The pair has known each other since Catholic boarding school.
    — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The boarding school era lasted for more than 150 years.
    — Jessica Hopper, ABC News, 31 Mar. 2022
  • In this year’s rankings, the K-12 day and boarding school in Sheridan came in third.
    — oregonlive, 21 Sep. 2022
  • In high school, Whaley went to an all-girls Catholic boarding school about an hour and a half away.
    — Henry J. Gomez & Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 27 Feb. 2022
  • The panelists asked how many of the attendees in the room had also been made to go to a boarding school.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 July 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
  • The girls’ boarding school in Chibok, miles behind them, had been set on fire.
    — Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 14 Apr. 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
  • The year before, a 16-year-old Black teen was shot outside a girl’s boarding school on the city’s Southside.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 16 Nov. 2020
  • We were put into boarding schools and we were told to reform.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2024
  • Willie is sent to boarding school and is caught stealing food on campus one night.
    — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 19 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • Karga grew up in Kyiv but from age 14 lived at boarding school in other parts of Ukraine.
    — Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 May 2022
  • Referred to as ‘the nurse of England's statesmen,’ the school is the largest boarding school in England, ahead of Millfield and Oundle.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The first floor of that building has one room dedicated to the Indigenous boarding school era.
    — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2025

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