How to Use schoolbook in a Sentence

schoolbook

noun
  • Chanty’s schoolbook and her purse were also found in the same area.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Children’s drawings clung to the wallpaper, and schoolbooks were stacked on the living room shelves.
    — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2023
  • So 10-year-old Meir helped form a club to raise money to help families buy schoolbooks.
    — Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2023
  • In the meantime, kids still primarily carried their schoolbooks in their hands.
    — Elizabeth Wellington, Philly.com, 24 Aug. 2017
  • They were mixed in together with other schoolbooks and papers like camouflage.
    — New York Times, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The schoolbooks and sandals were among hundreds of items that belonged to Afghans who died in the many conflicts that have roiled the country.
    — Ruchi Kumar, NPR, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Parents and others have organized and protested schoolbook bans.
    — Lori Rozsa, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
  • There is a naïve element to her spiral designs in birthday party colors, like doodles in a schoolbook.
    — Leah Dolan, CNN, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Zuma, the son of a domestic worker, did not go to school as a boy but tried to teach himself using other children’s schoolbooks.
    — Robyn Dixon, latimes.com, 29 May 2017
  • Superstar had a dream that, one day, Wa children would tote schoolbooks instead of Kalashnikovs.
    — Patrick Winn, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2024
  • In the past year, schoolbook chapters on the Mughal period have been pared down or removed altogether.
    — Byvaishnavi Chandrashekhar, science.org, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Many things in Macedonia will have to change, from passports to government letterhead to schoolbooks.
    — Konstantin Testorides, The Seattle Times, 28 Jan. 2019
  • Sullivan found Westwater under a stairwell, sprawled out in her blood, her schoolbooks and lunch scattered beside her.
    — Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2024
  • In Benin City, Blessing’s schoolbooks are still piled on a shelf in her former bedroom, but Doris sold her mattress to buy food.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Darinda Yoder told the Missoulian residents were able retrieve schoolbooks and desks.
    — CBS News, 6 Sep. 2017
  • When Reconstruction ended, schoolbooks that did not portray the South’s Lost Cause as a war of valor were banned.
    — Literary Hub, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The building was used for storing schoolbooks, supplies and district records, and became known as the Roosevelt Park Warehouse.
    — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Car dashboards with controls that only appear when they're needed, schoolbooks and maps that physically animate concepts.
    — New Atlas, 15 Dec. 2025
  • On recent visits, lizards scuttled through the belongings left behind — a jar of pills, a schoolbook filled with a child’s handwriting, a guide to creating a computer password.
    — Gabby Sobelman, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Timbuk2 is running a sale on Amazon right now, the perfect messenger bags and backpacks for carrying everything from schoolbooks to laptops.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 15 Dec. 2017
  • New schoolbooks for high school students about general world history and Russian history are presented in Moscow last month.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • And no coincidence that some of those who want a less democractic, secular society now are trying to shut Thomas Jefferson out of our schoolbooks.
    — David Dobbs, WIRED, 16 Mar. 2010
  • Sam has encouraged the boy to be more conscientious with his studies and has been learning alongside him for years, picking up his schoolbooks and offering ideas on how to make the assignments more meaningful.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
  • And thanks to the size of the Texas schoolbook market, the state board of education has a disproportionate influence on the textbooks used in American schools.
    — Kevin O’Kelly, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2018
  • An antebellum schoolbook that became an instrument of Black liberation.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Books are being banned – books by award-winning Black authors like Toni Morrison and the deleting of Black history from our children’s schoolbooks and classes.
    — Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Raised by her grandmother in rural Tanzania, Mercy Esther and her siblings were born into poverty, sometimes without money for food, let alone schoolbooks.
    — Lisa Cohen, CNN, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The tale, lauding the First Lady’s quick thinking in a moment of crisis, eventually found its way into American folklore through schoolbooks, monographs, and artwork.
    — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 7 June 2018
  • Marguerite Culley, a practical nurse, and Elizabeth Beatty, a retired secretary, began making deliveries of food, medicine and schoolbooks to the sick.
    — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 11 May 2020
  • Judging from contemporary catalogs and advertisements, booksellers saw the text not as a mathematical treatise or schoolbook, but rather a piece of popular literature worthy of mass attention.
    — James Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024

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