How to Use at school in a Sentence

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  • And students are free to pray at school during recess or downtime as encouraged by parents or clergy.
    — Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2024
  • After particularly bad fights at school, Esperanza let her kids stay home for weeks at a time.
    — Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The secondhand Lululemon backpack looks brand-new after literal daily use at school and sports.
    — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 9 Aug. 2024
  • In the heyday of the 1990s, kids did their eye tests at school.
    — Hazlitt, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Or are they bound to be one of many at school with the same name?
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Here are some that could affect you at home, at work, at school and on the road.
    — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2024
  • The Jewish girls showed up at school; the goyim went to the movies without them.
    — Emma Allen, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Charles was supposed to drop their son JJ off at school.
    — Kat Teurfs, Chelsea Narvaez, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The girls at school are ruled by the twin gods of conformity and cliquishness.
    — Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 7 July 2023
  • All my friends at school looked like that — just the cheaper versions.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The vessel will take him away from the bullying at school.
    — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Our youngest child, Mostafa, was playing on a swing while his siblings were at school.
    — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2024
  • My 9-year-old is struggling with friendships at school.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
  • No one should have to endure this level of hatred, let alone at school.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 21 Apr. 2024
  • Some students rely on breakfast and lunch at school, and may miss a meal if school starts at 10 a.m.
    — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 12 May 2023
  • Five moms and five babies call this home, with day care provided while the young moms — ages 12 to 18 — are at school or work.
    — Jacinda Palomo, The Arizona Republic, 7 June 2023
  • Ask them about their day at school and have conversations with them about life.
    — Dr. Shanessa Fenner, Essence, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Yonatan’s three children were at school and the two of them were alone in the apartment, which suddenly felt quiet.
    — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
  • And in a sign of what was to come, Hoeft turned in a stellar performance in a stock-picking contest at school.
    — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The child was confirmed to be safe at school and told deputies that no one had approached her before or during school.
    — Andrea Morabito, The Arizona Republic, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Moss was afraid to leave the house, and her teenage son, after receiving racist threats by phone, stumbled at school.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Clip from the 1960s Barbie commercial: Now Ken and Barbie meet for lunch at school.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 July 2023
  • Fay Austin, the mother of Boateng, said that her grandson was at school on lockdown during the shooting.
    — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The 14-year-old was arrested at school Wednesday and is facing 18 charges.
    — Omari Daniels, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
  • But surely any officer in the King’s army would have been force-fed Virgil at school?
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
  • But at school, Terry was not happy at all, his parents said.
    — Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 8 Apr. 2023
  • When Hailey Buchanan was a little kid in the 2000s, other kids at school teased her for having freckles.
    — Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 29 July 2023
  • Messages about food restriction at school don’t just come from peers.
    — Christine Byrne, Mph, SELF, 22 Sep. 2023
  • To avoid using any restroom at school, her son was wasn’t eating or drinking much.
    — Jack Dura, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
  • This includes at school, home, and in digital spaces like the metaverse.
    — Alex Miller, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023

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