How to Use junior high school in a Sentence

junior high school

noun
  • Like any junior high school wrestling room, there is the faint smell of sweat.
    — Lily Altavena, azcentral, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The high school and the junior high school still have the panther.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 10 Jan. 2023
  • These days, the school goes through sixth grade; a junior high school is five miles away.
    — New York Times, 24 May 2022
  • At my junior high school, if you were caught doing it, you were expelled.
    — Lauren McCutcheon, Philly.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • My junior high school yearbook picture drives that truth home.
    — Josh Browning, Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Broad jump The broad jump is like being in gym class back in junior high school.
    — Dave Southorn, idahostatesman, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Both were students at the junior high school, which serves grades seven through nine.
    — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 5 Mar. 2021
  • In junior high school, braces kept me from playing a clarinet or trombone.
    — Marc Myers, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2020
  • The high school and junior high school are still waiting to get auto-locking doors.
    — Patrick Linehan, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Friday's event featured junior high schools from the western side of the parish.
    — Bob Warren, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • State of Union was about as decorous as a junior high school cafeteria.
    — Ian Fisher, Bloomberg.com, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Years later, when his son was in junior high school, his teacher asked him to help his son with a history project.
    — Edie Kasten, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Obviously, those people failed their junior high school math class.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2026
  • The ministry said the bus was carrying junior high school students and some parents.
    — Reuters, CNN, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Both Burnett and Quarles were students at the junior high school.
    — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 6 Mar. 2021
  • George Clinton and the Parliaments played at my junior high school.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The students on the bus were reported to be in elementary and junior high school.
    — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Multiple vehicles were blocking the bus lane that day at the junior high school campus.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 14 Dec. 2025
  • The cartoon appears to be the same as one distributed in a Texas junior high school over the summer.
    — Emma Colton, Washington Examiner, 14 Sep. 2020
  • The beast starts working as a junior high school teacher and gives students a chance to kill it before the planet is destroyed.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 June 2023
  • The Bible had been on the shelves in about seven to eight elementary and junior high schools in the district.
    — oregonlive, 3 June 2023
  • Shabazz was introduced by a junior high school friend to one of the Jolly Stompers.
    — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Go to church, go to school, go to junior high school, go to high school, get a high school diploma, go to college, and get a college degree.
    — Michael Brunker, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Herron and Nelson first met back in junior high school in Lubbock, Texas.
    — Tracy Maness, Houston Chronicle, 21 May 2018
  • The opinion was also discussed that the study course at the Litchfield junior high school is too heavy for children of that age.
    — Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • This time of year brings fond memories of end-of-the-school-year trips during the junior high school years of my daughter, Rachel.
    — Bill May, Baltimore Sun, 5 June 2022
  • The junior high school, the island’s highest level of education, sits at the top of the village.
    — Muktita Suhartono Nyimas Laula, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • How soon can the junior high school offense be shelved and replaced by a real NFL offense?
    — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 14 Oct. 2019
  • By then, a junior high school had been built for grades 6, 7 and 8 and Parkview became, formally, the high school.
    — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The city plans demolished the pool at the junior high school and rebuilt at Red Mountain Park.
    — Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 7 June 2024

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