How to Use physical education in a Sentence

physical education

noun
  • He teaches physical education at the high school.
  • In high school, she was forced to take a dance class for a physical education credit.
    — Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Since the first grade my dream was to become a physical education teacher.
    — Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Night schools offer a slate of subjects from math to physical education.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Gail worked as a high school physical education teacher but left to start a family.
    — courant.com, 10 Nov. 2019
  • There are school clothes, play clothes, sports uniforms and clothes for physical education classes.
    — Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The goal for the new addition is to help support the school's teams and physical education.
    — Madeline Burke, CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • But then there’s a physical education involved, which usually takes a few shows to break in.
    — Leah Lu, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2024
  • None of the White students would play with the Black girl in their physical education class.
    — John Blake, CNN, 1 Jan. 2022
  • For example, the school went half the year with no physical education teacher.
    — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2023
  • In addition to sports teams, students will use the new fields in their physical education classes.
    — Anna Webb, idahostatesman, 13 Oct. 2017
  • There were only 16 of us in the health and physical education program.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024
  • His full time job was as a physical education teacher and golf coach at Lake Catholic High.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Vincent will remain at the school and will continue to coach the boys soccer team and teach physical education.
    — baltimoresun.com, 29 June 2018
  • The new field will be used by many of the high school athletic programs, physical education programs and youth programs.
    — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2020
  • Groark said of the team, which responded to a social-media blitz by the health and physical education teacher.
    — USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Foglietta coached baseball in the spring and taught physical education to the younger kids, but football was the center of things.
    — Eric Lewis, Esquire, 17 Nov. 2016
  • The statement said Ouma had been married in Africa and was a physical education teacher there for a few years.
    — Annie Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Adams is a middle school physical education teacher who taught Burrow in the seventh and eighth grades.
    — Andrew Lopez, NOLA.com, 26 May 2018
  • Andy and Kristin are longtime physical education teachers and coaches at the school.
    — Tim Meehan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2024
  • At the same time, physical education was introduced as part of the curriculum in women’s schools.
    — Blythe Lawrence, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • For example, more students may mean a school needs three physical education teachers instead of one.
    — Keri Heath, Austin American Statesman, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The last strike to the former physical education teacher changed his life forever, hitting in the middle of his spine.
    — Natalia Jaramillo, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 June 2026
  • This year, the government announced that for the first time girls in public schools would be allowed to play sports and have access to physical education.
    — Abdullah Al-Shihri and Aya Batrawy, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Sep. 2017
  • The now-17-year-old had to take a physical education course over the summer between her sophomore and junior years.
    — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, Pomerado News, 12 June 2019
  • Many of the hopefuls played flag football during physical education class in middle school and hoped to score a spot on the high school’s second-ever team.
    — Amy Taxin, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The test is designed to reward students for achievements in physical education.
    — Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Her father Val Whipple worked a physical education teacher for a dual-school, as well as a coach.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 6 Aug. 2024
  • At one point, Carson was trying to follow along to the movements of a teacher and a song during a physical education class.
    — Julia Jones and Kyung Lah, CNN, 12 Mar. 2021
  • So her school bought a Swivl robot for each of the K-8 classrooms, plus music and physical education.
    — Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2020

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