How to Use night school in a Sentence

night school

noun
  • Both worked their way through night school to become teachers, providing him and his brother with a stable, middle-class upbringing.
    — Melanie Marshall, Oc Register, 12 Sep. 2025
  • At a Thursday night school board meeting, dozens of parents and staff members spoke at or called in to advocate for their campus librarians.
    — Keri Heath, Austin American Statesman, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Negri got a night school diploma at Allderdice High School and enrolled under the GI Bill.
    — Tribune News Service, Boston Herald, 1 June 2026
  • Yamagami applied to night school, inspired by his uncle’s advocacy.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Dad went to night school to learn English and was attending Englewood High School when he got drafted into the Army.
    — Alex Poppe, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2026
  • His mother taught for almost 40 years; his dad for 36, partly as a principal and also, for more than 15 years, at the community college night school.
    — Kansas City Star, 27 Oct. 2025
  • In 1915, however, Carmichael severed ties with the university, after which the school operated as a private, non-accredited night school named the Arkansas Law School.
    — Arkansas Online, 2 May 2026
  • Riggio, a precocious kid who skipped two grades before going to Brooklyn Tech for high school, began his career in bookstores working at NYU’s, where he was enrolled in night school, according to his obituary in the New York Times.
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 6 Oct. 2025
  • While at City Hall, Donovan attended night school, earning a bachelor’s degree in business from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1972 and a master’s degree in public administration from IIT in 1975.
    — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026

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