How to Use schoolroom in a Sentence

schoolroom

noun
  • At the age of six or seven, boys would leave home for the schoolroom.
    — Raquel López, National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2019
  • For the schoolroom scenes, two simple panels were pulled in front of it.
    — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2017
  • Cleaning up their brains off the wall, wiping the blood off the schoolroom floor?
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023
  • But given the time deadline, the schoolroom was built in advance, then brought on site.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Got back and played backgammon with Monty in schoolroom, as the others weren’t back.
    — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 4 May 2021
  • Its six schoolrooms were wiped away, leaving just the cement footing behind.
    — Vaughn Hillyard, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2017
  • The village hall was used as a temporary schoolroom, a civic hall and art exhibition space.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 19 Nov. 2019
  • The Bill of Rights Institute is co-hosting schoolroom civics bees.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The interview, in a schoolroom in a small village in western France, came hours ahead of a new round of train worker strikes.
    — Sylvie Corbet, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • But to defend her too keenly, or to demonstrate her allyship, would also be to invite schoolroom suspicion.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 9 Sep. 2022
  • In lieu of attending classes, Shore used the city as both his laboratory and his schoolroom.
    — Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The better sketches of the night (like the one set in a schoolroom) favored the ensemble, giving every actor involved a chance to shine.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Nineteen died at the scene of the schoolroom blaze, and the others in the two Guatemala City hospitals that received the injured.
    — Francisco Goldman, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2017
  • Deborah bopped from the cafeteria to another schoolroom, where another precinct was sharing the space.
    — Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The claustrophobia will be familiar to anyone who has shared a living space that has suddenly become a schoolroom and a home office.
    — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Now, families prefer houses with enough room for an office or remote schoolroom, and close-by outdoor recreational amenities.
    — Joanne Cleaver, chicagotribune.com, 4 Sep. 2020
  • The Green Beret interpreter and the girl in the unfinished schoolroom now stood outside the circle of empathy.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Its programs have just crossed the eleven-million mark—a milestone felt in village clinics, schoolrooms, and small businesses across rural India.
    — Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Looming behind the schoolroom is a skeletal wooden octagon with three telephone-pole crosspieces on each side attached to uprights nearly as high as the basketball hoop.
    — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2022
  • The maker ethos has seeped into schoolrooms and manifested in meetups, clubs and other countless other community events.
    — Erin Baldassari, The Mercury News, 8 June 2019
  • Their attempt is completely upstaged by the call’s rolling sidebar of messages which are plastered across the white back wall and ceiling of Rob Howells’ schoolroom set.
    — David Benedict, Variety, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Soon, steam from the pressure cookers gathered on the ceiling and fogged the studio windows of this cinder block building, a former schoolroom and occasional garage for the county fire truck.
    — Shane Mitchell, Saveur, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The room is fitted with institutional furniture from the 1970s, from a two-top table to an eight-top, crescent banquettes and schoolroom chairs.
    — Ben Ratliff, New York Times, 3 June 2019
  • From the cool, dank blue-gray tones of Maria’s basement to the clever signage that adorns the schoolroom walls, the production mechanics work to pull viewers further into this high stakes character study.
    — Holly Jones, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Down an alleyway no wider than 3 feet, in one of Dhaka’s thousands of teeming informal settlements, is a bright little schoolroom filled with tiny wooden tables.
    — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Cell phone footage too, and sponsored messages, political ads, instant replays on the Jumbotron, doorbell camera clips, and schoolroom lessons given via Zoom.
    — Siva Vaidhyanathan, Wired, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Zoom, Teams, and other collaboration platforms became the meeting room, the water cooler, the schoolroom, and the family reunion all rolled into one.
    — Forrester, Forbes, 6 May 2021
  • As first seen, occupied by straight-backed, chanting girls at their desks in a fleeting, imagistic prologue, this would appear to be a contemporary schoolroom of a dreary institutional nature.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2016
  • Anne’s schoolroom rival and eventual love interest, Gilbert Blythe, played by , managed to combine dreaminess and respectfulness—traits that stayed with many of us forever.
    — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 11 May 2017
  • Danto says that Warhol’s work, by disposing of modernism’s assertions that painting should be about the nature of painting, liberated it to go its own way, while the art critics stayed back in the schoolroom, arguing.
    — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020

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