SCHOOL in a Sentence

Learn SCHOOL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
329 example sentences for SCHOOL, such as:
1. Donna left school and went to art college.
2. I am a member of our school football club.
3. The school trip has become an annual event.
4. I am higher in the school, and no one breaks my peace.
5. The school will only allow this in special circumstances.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SCHOOL
school
 v.  teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
 n.  a large group of fish
Classic Sentence: (119 in 8 pages)
1  One of my most vivid memories is of coming back west from prep school and later from college at Christmas time.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
2  It must have been a work of vast ability in the somniferous school of literature.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
3  I am going to try to get the place of mistress in the new school nearly finished here.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXV
4  I heard all kinds of things about the school and all belonging to it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6. I ENLARGE MY CIRCLE OF ACQUAINTANCE
5  Steerforth's place was at the bottom of the school, at the opposite end of the long room.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
6  I PASS over all that happened at school, until the anniversary of my birthday came round in March.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
7  This was, to lie behind the wall at the back of my old school, in a corner where there used to be a haystack.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
8  Next morning, after breakfast, I entered on school life again.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE
9  Doctor Strong's was an excellent school; as different from Mr. Creakle's as good is from evil.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE
10  I am higher in the school, and no one breaks my peace.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT
11  It was what was always being dinned into you and me at school; it's what goes down best.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP
12  From the glimpse I had of them, I should say that I never saw such sums out of a school ciphering-book.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 57. THE EMIGRANTS
13  Leaving the school very young as a brilliant officer, he had at once got into the circle of wealthy Petersburg army men.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 16
14  Grisha, who was by now at a high school, had to go over the lessons of the term in the summer holidays.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 6
15  With the ladies were sitting and standing smart lawyers, high school teachers in spectacles, and officers.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 30
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  In their first year at school, most children learn to add and subtract.
2  The school governors have absolute discretion over which pupils they admit.
3  The school will only allow this in special circumstances.
4  I am a member of our school football club.
5  Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other.
6  The school encourages free expression in art, drama and creative writing.
7  Donna left school and went to art college.
8  Her ambition was to go to law school and become an attorney.
9  BThe district attorney notifies them by letter to attend a meeting at the school auditorium.
10  The school's controversial methods have come under examination by the local authority.
11  The local authority considered that the school did not meet requirements.
12  According to popular mythology , school days are the best days of your life.
13  The school trip has become an annual event.
14  Complaints about school food have become a familiar refrain.
15  We went through school and college together, but then our paths diverged.