How to Use nursery school in a Sentence

nursery school

noun
  • Your wife could work at a nursery school or at your kids’ school.
    — Amy Dickinson, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2018
  • Your wife could work at a nursery school or at your kids’ school.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Your wife could work at a nursery school or at your kids' school.
    — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The youngest children can be part of the nursery school on the eighth deck.
    — Rick Noack and Sandra Mehl, Anchorage Daily News, 13 May 2022
  • The youngest children can be part of the nursery school on the eighth deck.
    — Sandra Mehl, Washington Post, 12 May 2022
  • And what’s softer than a nursery school?
    — Nicole Frehsee Mazur, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Julia and Cassie have been best friends since nursery school.
    — Laura Lippman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Nicole had learned to read at nursery school and was prepared for kindergarten.
    — Hessie Jones, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
  • But as my boys learned in nursery school, there are good touches and bad touches.
    — Kristin Van Ogtrop, Time, 28 Sep. 2017
  • One of the gems in the project was a nursery school, where farmers’ children could nap on cots.
    — Amity Shlaes, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The only path this Pathfinder found was the route to nursery school.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 19 June 2021
  • That’s what Knight has been in possession of since nursery school.
    — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
  • There were armed guards outside her nursery school, their fingers on the triggers.
    — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
  • On one side of a glass wall, three toddlers in a nursery school flattened play dough with plastic rolling pins.
    — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Leslie has taught sixth grade, nursery school, and, since 1990, kindergarten.
    — Philly.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • My son, who just graduated from high school, is still on at least one nursery school waiting list.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 27 June 2022
  • The synagogue’s nursery school and religious school have been closed for a week.
    — Ben Guarino, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2020
  • Her mother ran a nursery school and was a substitute teacher.
    — New York Times, 2 May 2018
  • Princess Charlotte is expected to start nursery school soon as well.
    — Katie Van Syckle, The Cut, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Across the avenue from the school, standing between a church and its nursery school, there’s an ancient fig tree.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The yelps and chatter of a nursery school recess clattered down from a small hill overlooking the scene.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Once, the nursery school cancelled class because the police found a terrorist dummy bomb a block away.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Fake It Flowers and her lifelong dream of being a nursery school teacher.
    — Nicole Ngai, refinery29.com, 27 Oct. 2020
  • The Middletons lived abroad for two and a half years, and Kate attended nursery school there.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Louis memorably posed on a red bike for his third birthday portrait, taken by Kate on his first day of nursery school.
    — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Four young children and a teacher have been killed in what is believed to be an arson attack at a nursery school in Brazil.
    — Kevin Lui, Time, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Isabel Bascón, who works with young kids at a nursery school in Madrid, has similar advice.
    — Miriam Foley, Good Housekeeping, 19 Jan. 2021
  • Mildred Madison’s mother, a teacher, opened one of the first nursery schools in the country.
    — Detroit Free Press, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The same person also is believed to have written the same racial slur and two swastikas on a staff photograph of the church's nursery school.
    — Deborah Kadin, chicagotribune.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • The kids hug each other, of course, and parents hug their kids, and also adults at training sessions for nursery school teachers did it, too.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019

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