How to Use schoolteacher in a Sentence

schoolteacher

noun
  • His wife was a schoolteacher there.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2026
  • So, who might fill his shoes and sweep the schoolteacher off her feet?
    — Blair Donovan, Country Living, 12 May 2019
  • The first was to flash back to the schoolteacher with the soda.
    — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 17 May 2025
  • Both are daughters of schoolteacher moms and banker-farmer dads.
    — Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2024
  • It was started by a schoolteacher.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026
  • His brother is a schoolteacher, and his sister works in a bank.
    — Bob Carlton | [email protected], al, 17 Nov. 2022
  • His mother was a schoolteacher, and his father owned a small toy store chain.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Sean said that much of his learning has come via his mom, a former schoolteacher.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Bliss in Adair County got its name from a beloved schoolteacher.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 8 Sep. 2023
  • My mom was my third-grade schoolteacher who took me home with her and adopted me and my younger brother.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 7 May 2022
  • Charlie Hong, a schoolteacher in Chongqing, said that is no longer the case.
    — Liza Lin, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Her father, a former schoolteacher, walked the girls to school every day and taught them to read.
    — New York Times, 19 June 2022
  • Driscoll wasn’t the only former schoolteacher who used her math and language skills to hack the bad guys.
    — Liza Mundy, Time, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Both of her parents were schoolteachers.
    — New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Villagers would drown them in a well, douse them with boiling water, or bring them to the town’s schoolteacher.
    — Adrian Daub, Longreads, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Glen agrees to take in Jesse mainly to please his schoolteacher wife, Annie.
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 4 July 2025
  • The lone male on-hand is August (Ben Whishaw), a schoolteacher.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2022
  • For many years, Clute was a schoolteacher, which led her to take a job in children’s services with the state.
    — Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
  • In Ukraine, a typical schoolteacher would make less than a quarter of that over the course of a year.
    — New York Times, 3 May 2022
  • Here's everything to know about the former schoolteacher.
    — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Broyles, who has been married for 52 years and has one daughter, met his wife-a schoolteacher—on a blind date.
    — Michelle Iracheta, Houston Chronicle, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Lucy is the main character, a 41-year-old divorced schoolteacher with two young sons.
    — Rob Merrill, Star Tribune, 28 Sep. 2020
  • At 52, Janelle, a schoolteacher, has struggled with anorexia for the past four years.
    — Rebecca Lester, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Marta’s twin, Morgan, a schoolteacher, takes shifts in the summers.
    — Gregg Olsen, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026
  • But the schoolteacher’s house on the corner that signaled the start of his neighborhood was leveled.
    — Dan Woike, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Debbi Hixon, a schoolteacher whose husband Chris was killed, also is on the board.
    — Brittany Wallman, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Apr. 2022
  • In reality, said Simiele, the schoolteacher and the king would have never met.
    — Don Maines, Houston Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Santor, the son of schoolteachers, grew up on a farm outside Ontario.
    — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Taylor, the schoolteacher, focused on the now-famous last words of George Floyd.
    — Bruce Selcraig, ExpressNews.com, 3 June 2020
  • Fitzpatrick’s father worked at Gary Works, and her mother was a schoolteacher.
    — John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026

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