How to Use schoolroom in a Sentence

schoolroom

noun
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  • 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
  • But given the time deadline, the schoolroom was built in advance, then brought on site.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 15 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Got back and played backgammon with Monty in schoolroom, as the others weren’t back.
    — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 4 May 2021
  • Nowhere is the schoolroom axiom more true than in the 2023 Pegasus World Cup: The bottom half of the class makes the top half of the class possible.
    — Guy Martin, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Its six schoolrooms were wiped away, leaving just the cement footing behind.
    — Vaughn Hillyard, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2017
  • The mask felt to many like the latest sweeping affront brought by something so small — it’s taken our schoolrooms, our jobs, our handshakes and hugs, and now, half of our very faces.
    — Michael Wilson, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The village hall was used as a temporary schoolroom, a civic hall and art exhibition space.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 19 Nov. 2019
  • The lack of a fixed set of places or listing order is also a reminder that Romans didn’t grow up with schoolroom maps and satellite images to build a picture of the world around them.
    — Meghan Bartels, Smithsonian, 20 Feb. 2017
  • The lack of a fixed set of places or listing order is also a reminder that Romans didn’t grow up with schoolroom maps and satellite images to build a picture of the world around them.
    — Meghan Bartels, Smithsonian, 20 Feb. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • But to defend her too keenly, or to demonstrate her allyship, would also be to invite schoolroom suspicion.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 9 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 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
  • Proceeds from the luncheon will help to support the Weymouth School museum, so that current and future visitors can see how a schoolroom looked early in the 20th century.
    — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • A schoolroom at the rear, dating from 1844, has become the meeting point for several local groups, and the building also hosts a post office that appears for regular visits.
    — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 13 July 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The dropped ceiling and florescent lights have been removed and replaced with reproduction schoolroom lights, the hardwood floors have been refinished and new energy-efficient windows have been installed.
    — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The disclosure Friday that police in Texas stood by for more than 40 minutes while a gunman continued shooting in a Uvalde schoolroom came after two days of inaccurate and incomplete statements from the governor and the state's top law officer.
    — Dennis Wagner, USA TODAY, 27 May 2022

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