How to Use schoolchild in a Sentence

schoolchild

noun
  • Ask any schoolchild how many hours are in a day and the response—24—will come quick and easy.
    — Camille Bromley, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Dixon said he was brought as a schoolchild to the park where the Lee statue stood.
    — Sarah Rankin, ajc, 11 July 2021
  • My bladder felt like an unruly schoolchild waiting for the final bell.
    — Shuang Xuetao, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Put the bag in a backpack and give it to a schoolchild who lives with empty pantries and a growling stomach.
    — Beth Thames, AL.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Every schoolchild in Denmark has been on a farm and seen someone chop off a chicken’s head.
    — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
  • But, every schoolchild knows Amazon Prime while few have heard of Walmart+.
    — Walter Loeb, Forbes, 19 May 2021
  • Every farmer can find it in her paddy, every fisherman can see it in his pond, every schoolchild can find it in the yard.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2019
  • With that, the pedagogue would dispatch some shivering schoolchild in vest and shorts on a three-mile cross-country run.
    — The Economist, 9 Nov. 2019
  • As any schoolchild should know, elections require all citizens to tolerate views that differ from their own.
    — Christopher Hill, The Denver Post, 4 Mar. 2017
  • Public fear of nukes appears to have abated somewhat from the time when every schoolchild had to practice duck-and-cover drills.
    — The Editors, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Would that every schoolchild could stand on the grassy knoll for a quiet minute, pondering the imponderables.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • As every schoolchild now knows, birds are dinosaurs, linked to their extinct relatives by feathers and anatomy.
    — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 2 May 2018
  • Every schoolchild in Puerto Rico should still be exposed to the thrill of science.
    — Mary Fillmore, Wired, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Every schoolchild in the state knows about the Petoskey stone, the official state rock found mostly Up North.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Elise is far from the only schoolchild to happen upon an astonishing ancient artifact in the past few years.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 May 2023
  • But as every schoolchild knows, with every long finger of accusation that extends, three point back at the accuser.
    — Lois McLatchie, National Review, 27 June 2021
  • Under the best of circumstances, just about every New York City schoolchild will be online for class at least twice a week.
    — Hillary Chura, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Oct. 2020
  • The zero here is not just a concept of nothingness (and something every schoolchild learns you are forbidden to divide by), but also a place holder.
    — Amir Aczel, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2013
  • These are among the scars on this country that every American — schoolchild or adult, of any race — should learn about in detail, keep learning about and never forget.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 26 July 2019
  • As every schoolchild should know, China is Washington’s largest trading partner.
    — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 13 July 2017
  • Ukrainka is often reduced to her youthful patriotic verses, which every schoolchild in Ukraine reads.
    — Uilleam Blacker, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Almost every schoolchild in America learns Lincoln was born in a Kentucky log cabin.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 13 July 2023
  • Every schoolchild knows the accomplishments of Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart.
    — Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 30 July 2021
  • Obama, now out of office, seems unwilling to sit silently in the margins, like some Victorian schoolchild only to speak when spoken to.
    — Nic Robertson, CNN, 9 May 2017
  • Often, there are numerous figures in his pictures, each Christmas-party dancer or playground adventurer or bored schoolchild given his or her own space and weight.
    — David Campany, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
  • The numbers behind this unique achievement are remarkable, and Butter can reel them off like a schoolchild reciting multiplication tables.
    — George Ramsay, CNN, 9 Dec. 2019
  • As a schoolchild, Inna lived with her mother in a brutalist high-rise in Saltivka, a neighborhood dominated by such behemoths.
    — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
  • Not without permission, as Tian knows, and so, like a schoolchild who needs a bathroom, Tian asks the troupe’s director, Meng, for leave to accept the invitation.
    — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The schoolchild innocence of the alphabet is juxtaposed with the violence and instability of the historical moment.
    — Mark Nowak Anne Boyer, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Matthew Callender remembers the excitement of seeing the queen and Philip in Barbados as a schoolchild in 1977.
    — NBC News, 17 Apr. 2021

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