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.
  • Most of the instances took place at the elite boarding school.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The school is a girls' Catholic boarding school, run by nuns.
    — Rachel Donohue, Star Tribune, 16 July 2021
  • Then, she and her twin are sent away to an all-girls boarding school for a fresh start.
    — Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2021
  • We were put into boarding schools and we were told to reform.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2024
  • The pair has known each other since Catholic boarding school.
    — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
  • As a teen-ager, Pamela pleaded to be sent to boarding school.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
  • In this boarding school, the living are scarier than the ghosts.
    — Emiliano Granada, Variety, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Willie is sent to boarding school and is caught stealing food on campus one night.
    — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Of course, not everyone can go to boarding school.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Alyoshka is one of the few children of the camp who wasn’t sent to boarding school.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The flip-flopping of hearts is on par with the teenagers’ journey at boarding school.
    — Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 4 Apr. 2026
  • My son, Noah, is away at boarding school and the kids are going to stay there.
    — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2020
  • Kim’s father follows her to boarding school.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2025
  • So, in a way, being at boarding school became a haven for William.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Our bone dry narrator’s bound for a teaching gig at an all-girls boarding school.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
  • At the height of the boarding school era, Arizona had 59 schools.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The Kings sent their five children to boarding school — or tried to, anyway.
    — Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2018
  • What the boarding school setting provides is a clear structure against which to map these events.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Jan. 2026
  • He was sent to a private boarding school at 12 and rarely heard from his parents.
    — Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
  • At its heart, the boys’ boarding school is about containment and freedom.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The boarding school offers a rich background against which both modes can flourish.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The girls’ boarding school in Chibok, miles behind them, had been set on fire.
    — Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2024
  • He’s probably been sent to boarding school, been reared by nannies.
    — Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 26 Nov. 2025
  • There are parties, private jet trips, boarding school for the kids—all the trappings.
    — Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 16 Nov. 2017
  • Boys’ boarding schools are the most extreme example of this.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Like all good rock ’n’ roll childhoods, I was sent away to boarding school in my midteens.
    — Marc Myers, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2021
  • But boarding school students were often hard to control.
    — Thomas Adam, The Conversation, 29 May 2026
  • When Peter was 6-year-old, his father sent him to boarding school.
    — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 16 Aug. 2019

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