How to Use grade school in a Sentence

grade school

noun
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  • Steve was kind of like the kids in grade school and the boy pulling your pigtails.
    — Jason Scott, Billboard, 30 June 2018
  • In grade school, Sandy still dressed like a boy and used her male birth name.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2021
  • The players found ways on their own to get to the grade school for practices.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 11 Sep. 2020
  • So most of our guys were in grade school when that happened.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 10 Sep. 2019
  • My mom had a chance to finish grade school; my dad wasn’t so lucky.
    — Luke Broadwater, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The kids start ski and mountain-bike racing in grade school.
    — Tracy Ross, Outside Online, 12 Apr. 2021
  • All because of the grade school children an ocean away.
    — Judy Berlfein, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Here’s the sixth and final unit reader of the second grade school year.
    — Trisha Powell Crain | [email protected], al, 20 June 2023
  • Friends that will go through grade school, middle school and high school with us.
    — Loren Braunohler, CNN, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Three hours later, flames were visible in the steeple of the old grade school.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 20 July 2022
  • Enter Buffy, the comforter that makes me gush like a sixth-grade school girl with a crush.
    — Danielle Tullo, House Beautiful, 27 Aug. 2018
  • Is this your boss’s daughter or is this your best friend from grade school?
    — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Chávez has been out there pretty much since grade school.
    — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 19 Nov. 2020
  • All kindergarten through 12th-grade schools have been closed since March 17.
    — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Carmen’s head is still down, arms wrapped around her ears like a kid in grade school.
    — Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Back in grade school, Ron and I had been considered cool.
    — Marc Myers, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Glass had known the patriarch’s wife since grade school.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
  • Once, in grade school, Frank and I came across a small shark caught by a fisherman with a rod and reel.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • The two-story building south of downtown was built in 1892 as a grade school.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Now, some have argued that the flag should be so plain and simple that a grade school child can draw it.
    — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Both are 33 and grew up in Seven Hills and have known each other since grade school.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 3 Aug. 2020
  • That started off young, in middle school, in grade school.
    — Colleen Kane, chicagotribune.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Two are adults moving into the college world, and two are in grade school.
    — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2023
  • At the beginning of my 2nd grade school year, my hair fell out, causing me to wear hats to school.
    — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 14 May 2018
  • Paula took to the woods in grade school as a refuge from the chaos of alcoholic parents and too many siblings.
    — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 6 Mar. 2020
  • However, headbands have come a long way from your grade school and The Hills days.
    — Bianca Nieves, Teen Vogue, 24 June 2019
  • My first taste of this lightly spiced roll was at my kids’ grade school, St. Louis in Owensville, Ohio many years ago.
    — Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Mando had played the keyboard in his uncles’ band in grade school.
    — Cat Cardenas, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2023
  • In the film, Schwartzman is a cantor struggling with his faith, while Kane plays his grade school music teacher who reenters his life.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2024
  • Gallagher went to an all-White private Catholic grade school outside of Philadelphia and had never met a peer who was Black.
    — Emily Hung, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2024

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