How to Use school run in a Sentence

school run

noun
  • The idea came to Charman during the daily school run.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Less than a week later, another encounter on the school run had a different outcome.
    — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2026
  • All six will do the school run, Costco haul, and mountain day trip without missing a step and all six are great value for money and priced competitively.
    — Peter Lyon, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Now, of course, the practicalities of getting back by the Monday school run mean few of us these days can donkey our way around, but the point is to let the traveling lead you more.
    — Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The family’s GoFundMe page states that Sophia and her younger brother attend the pre-K-8 school run by the church.
    — Janelle Griffith, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • On Wednesday morning, well before the school run started, Mary Granlund was attempting to coax her dog outside for a brief walk in negative-two-degree weather, and her phone was already pinging with texts.
    — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The youngsters were from the Levante Institute, a school run by Brazilian Olympian Carolina Solberg, that aims to transform the lives of children through sport.
    — Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
  • On Friday morning, Stenvik drove around for an hour before the school run, focussing on areas where ICE has previously targeted students and checking that children were getting to school safely.
    — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2026
  • With only 12 weeks to pull together a wardrobe for the cast, and few of Jones’s old clothing in the archives, Rowe recreated some historical looks— such as the infamous red penguin-print pajama set (a version of the pajama top is worn by Jones on a school run in the new film).
    — Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026
  • In fact, according to a new profile of Kate for The Times ahead of her 44th birthday on January 9, it was revealed that the Princess of Wales insists on doing the school run, dropping her kids off at Lambrook and picking them up, as well.
    — Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Coming up with ‘Prisoner’ on the school run Charman was Oscar-nominated for Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies and has penned TV thrillers including Netflix double Treason and Hostage, along with Prisoner.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 19 Jan. 2026

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