How to Use schoolhouse in a Sentence

schoolhouse

noun
  • The couple pays homage to the old schoolhouse with their decor.
    — Celia Fernandez,valentina Duarte, CNBC, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Her younger sister may find the schoolhouse door closed to her.
    — Wencong Fa, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2021
  • School boards grew out of the culture of the one-room schoolhouse.
    — WSJ, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The torch is long gone, but the schoolhouse now appears here to stay.
    — David Maraniss, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
  • And some are less sanguine about just throwing open the schoolhouse gates.
    — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 25 June 2020
  • Ten years later, a two-story red brick schoolhouse was built at the site.
    — Douglas C. Towne, The Arizona Republic, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Make paper lanterns at our one-room schoolhouse and take a journey through our town.
    — Des Moines Register, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Installed in a defunct schoolhouse, the feds wired him up to record for two days straight.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
  • All eight grades were housed in the one-room schoolhouse, and taught by a single teacher.
    — Erin Shaw Street, Southern Living, 11 July 2017
  • Birds wake up in the eaves of the schoolhouse, chirping as the sun streams in through the windows.
    — Leah Sottile, Longreads, 18 May 2018
  • The steps of the old schoolhouse still climb toward an entrance, but the doors and brick walls are gone.
    — Anne Burke, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The decor is very retro pastel, with schoolhouse lamps and displays of cake stands in jadeite and rose glass.
    — Devra First, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Next on the tour was a visit to the one-room schoolhouse at the park’s museum.
    — Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The schoolhouse is bordered by acres of woods and a creek for idyllic morning walks.
    — Meg St-Esprit, Good Housekeeping, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Villagers had to ration food that had been stored at the schoolhouse for students.
    — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The school is a one-room schoolhouse for about a dozen students, in grades K-3.
    — Jessica Flint, WSJ, 28 July 2022
  • Sad to say, not even Catholic schools are immune to the latest schoolhouse fad.
    — Grazie Pozo Christie, National Review, 20 May 2021
  • Attempts are being made to reclaim the schoolhouse, which was moved away.
    — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Behind him are the tribe’s museum, left, and its old schoolhouse on the right.
    — Washington Post, 5 May 2018
  • Ten days after the shooting, the schoolhouse was torn down, and a new one was built nearby.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The students would have walked the wooden sidewalk to reach the schoolhouse.
    — Arkansas Online, 22 June 2026
  • The village’s old schoolhouse is also gone, and so is the building that used to be the church.
    — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Then came the decades of dense, cedar overgrowth that blotted the historic schoolhouse from the world.
    — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 22 June 2019
  • Along with standard scares, the schoolhouse offers behind-the-scenes and lights-on tours for the timid.
    — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Around that time the old schoolhouse in Ellison Bay came up for sale.
    — Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2022
  • The winds of backlash have shifted, the schoolhouse is on fire and the hose is needed elsewhere.
    — Naveen Kumar, Variety, 21 Apr. 2023
  • In a field beside an empty schoolhouse, the city has set up a 50-ft wide stage with a tent for shade.
    — al, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Really see all the detail that goes into the old schoolhouse.
    — Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Enjoy the schoolhouse without the actors, and explore at your own pace.
    — Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Oct. 2019
  • The group also is selling 4-inch by 8-inch bricks that will line the walkway to the schoolhouse.
    — cleveland.com, 28 June 2019

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