How to Use kindergartner in a Sentence

kindergartner

noun
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  • At the school, kindergartners who once ran around the lunch room now sit in neat rows.
    — Michelle Hackman, WSJ, 17 May 2018
  • The chairs that go with those tables are low enough for the fifth-graders but too high for the kindergartners.
    — Erin Sauder, Elgin Courier-News, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The mom of three has been juggling a 2-year-old, a preschooler and a kindergartner.
    — Emma Talley, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 May 2021
  • Michael Podolsky of Deerfield watched son Austin, 5, a kindergartner, play a bean bag toss game on the lawn in the park.
    — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Imagine if one of those kindergartners got a hold of the fentanyl.
    — Stephanie Farr, Philly.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Maybe Dad folds laundry on the couch while his kindergartner builds a block tower on the floor.
    — Rachel Feintzeig, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The first day of school for kindergartners and Soaring Eagles Preschool is Aug. 26.
    — cleveland.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Six years ago, Eilidh Lowery taught a kindergartner how to write his name.
    — oregonlive.com, 27 June 2019
  • After the second-graders, who dined at 10:30 a.m., came the kindergartners.
    — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Hanna and John Toman dropped off their kindergartner for the first time, along with his third- and fourth-grade siblings.
    — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2020
  • In the most recent school year, there were more than 1,800 kindergartners in such programs across the county.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2019
  • Inside the school, kindergartners-to-eighth-graders donned the same navy blue bottoms and white button-down tops.
    — Kelly Glass, Washington Post, 30 July 2019
  • Who will ensure kindergartners keep their hands out of their mouths?
    — Jill Tucker, SFChronicle.com, 4 May 2020
  • White handprints dot the wall as if kindergartners had been playing with paint.
    — Brian J. Cantwell, The Seattle Times, 31 May 2017
  • The kindergartner is the couple’s oldest of their four children.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 9 Aug. 2022
  • You, me, our cousins, nieces, nephews, uncles, aunts, parents, those kids across the street, kindergartners in Des Moines.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Her kindergartner has autism and has been back in school in-person since January.
    — Jennifer Calfas, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2021
  • The family, which includes kindergartner Jimmy Miller, had searched for the pup for five hours.
    — Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Ban said that at the end of the graduation dress rehearsal, kindergartners through seventh-graders met with eighth-graders to share a song in a nod to the school mascot, the tiger.
    — Karie Angell Luc, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2017
  • At the school, J. escorted one of his daughters, a kindergartner, to her classroom.
    — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2021
  • What began in a church choir as a kindergartner now finds a cinematic bookend in Tran’s 30s, with a role and a prayer.
    — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The Soloves’ kindergartner, Ezra, has already come up with a rebuilding plan.
    — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Random works of a kindergartner’s finger painting are more pleasing to the eye.
    — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Apr. 2018
  • One day, my kindergartner went over to say hello and visit her 'auntie' — the same time my friend's husband came home for lunch.
    — Charlotte Hilton Andersen, Redbook, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Eventually Ryan, then a kindergartner, punched the bully in the face.
    — Greg Bishop, SI.com, 26 June 2018
  • Shatavia Dorsey, the mother of a kindergartner and a fifth grader, said her children are going to wear their masks at school regardless of the rules.
    — Jeff Amy, chicagotribune.com, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Every kindergartner gets a teddy bear to keep in school for comfort.
    — Leslie Brody, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2017
  • And if the shelter closes at 7 a.m., Miyaki said, would there be enough time and staff to clean the gym before kindergartners start rolling around on the floor during gym class?
    — Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Decker found the hourlong wait in the car especially disheartening for her kindergartner.
    — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The coverage rate for incoming kindergartners likely won’t be available for several months.
    — Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 15 Aug. 2024

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