How to Use schoolkid in a Sentence

schoolkid

noun
  • The two still giggle like schoolkids.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 31 May 2026
  • At the state park, a group of schoolkids, parents and teachers have a picnic.
    — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 31 Dec. 2018
  • And 170 schoolkids get to come in for rehearsal and get to work with Steve.
    — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 21 June 2017
  • The mayor again invited upset schoolkids to throw snowballs at him.
    — Aziza Shuler, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • That was a decade ago, and now a whole generation of schoolkids has grown up in a world where Pluto is not a planet.
    — Alex Wong, National Geographic, 23 Aug. 2016
  • Like a schoolkid playing an imaginary opponent in his front driveway.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Feb. 2021
  • One hundred and seventy-four is a lot of schoolkids for a village of 411 people.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Apr. 2018
  • End of carousel There are the local schoolkids who want to be MrBeast, or at least appear in his videos.
    — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
  • That seems to work for the ski clubs and hordes of schoolkids from Evergreen who descend almost every weeknight.
    — Jason Blevins, The Denver Post, 22 Feb. 2017
  • Throughout our conversation, Cardi has been jiggling her leg up and down like a schoolkid.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Feb. 2019
  • That’s changed, and Beck hopes his efforts to introduce schoolkids, scout troops and civic clubs to the state’s sole rattler species have helped.
    — Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times, 5 June 2017
  • But to a Catholic schoolkid accustomed to seeing priests as untouchable vessels of piety — so naïve, right?
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Some of the people who have sacrificed the most during the pandemic are schoolkids and college students.
    — Laura Helmuth, Scientific American, 1 May 2021
  • The lyrics were sly and funny but could also detour, like a fidgety schoolkid sitting by the window, into daydreams.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Through the snores of travelers inches from my face and the antics of schoolkids ignoring their chaperones.
    — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 29 June 2024
  • Georgie politely declined the various maple-syrup treats but happily headed to the hill where the schoolkids were.
    — Rivka Galchen, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Dents said the image was supposed to imply a schoolkid dreaming of possibilities.
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Savage and his massive crew almost look like schoolkids on the field trip of the year, gingerly exploring the scores of vehicles across the grounds.
    — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Alex is a normal and slightly dorky lower-middle class British schoolkid, living with his mom (Denise Gough).
    — Lindsey Bahr, The Seattle Times, 23 Jan. 2019
  • Congress temporarily made school meals free to all American schoolkids, but since that ended last fall, the need has only seemed to grow.
    — Cheyanne Mumphrey and Arleigh Rodgers, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2023
  • In a theater stuffed with schoolkids, all was calm until movie actors — probing through this Arctic habitat — warily opened a door.
    — Charles Hammer, Kansas City Star, 22 May 2024
  • Adam Sandler and Emma Stone posed for photos in the streets with ecstatic local schoolkids.
    — Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The students who were in the Thurston cafeteria 20 years ago are in their mid- to late-30s now and many of them no doubt have schoolkids of their own.
    — Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, 20 May 2018
  • While not completely noise-cancelling, these do block about 83 percent of ambient noise, which is pretty ideal for a schoolkid.
    — Jessica Hartshorn, Good Housekeeping, 12 Jan. 2023
  • His family home now has an oversized homemade silver medal hanging by the door, and schoolkids gathered at an ice palace for a watch party during the team relay.
    — Tim Reynolds, chicagotribune.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • But instead of mingling with the president, players and coaches met with local schoolkids in an intimate outing closed to media.
    — Anna Orso, Philly.com, 5 June 2018
  • Our sleep needs change over the course of our lifetimes—from 17 hours a day as a newborn, to up to 12 hours as a schoolkid, to the seven- to nine-hour benchmark for adults.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
  • This is part of every schoolkid’s learning in social studies, but financial historians don’t think the evidence is very strong for that.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Or the frustrated United Airlines captain who wanted to divert his flight because of unruly schoolkids in the back of the plane?
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024
  • For an ordinary schoolkid on a baseball diamond, having aretê might amount to paying attention, being a team player, and trying hard.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 22 May 2026

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