How to Use reform school in a Sentence

reform school

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  • At 15, he was sent to a boys ranch in lieu of reform school.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2022
  • Once, her parents sent her to a reform school for three weeks.
    — Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2024
  • And, for the boys sentenced to a reform school in the Jim Crow South, how few avenues there are to escape it.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2019
  • In her teens, she was arrested for shoplifting and sent to reform schools.
    — Joe Coscarelli, New York Times, 27 July 2023
  • Another was a juvenile at the time of the attack and was sentenced to three years in a reform school.
    — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2019
  • When the census threatens to expose his flight from reform school, Simón hides him in a cupboard.
    — Christian Lorentzen, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The children in those reform schools didn’t have that privilege.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2024
  • The name was later changed to Manual because many thought the old name sounded like a reform school.
    — Arika Herron, The Indianapolis Star, 20 July 2021
  • Is arrested for shoplifting and is sent to reform school.
    — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 22 June 2021
  • Well, some think Army-Navy is a reform school — a place where parents send their troubled boys for a dose of discipline.
    — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Meanwhile, the team talks to a former classmate whom Amanda had called out of the blue a few weeks ago, asking for photos from the reform school.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 9 May 2023
  • The book is fiction, but is based on the true story of a Florida reform school that hid decades of abuse against its residents.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The Santa Clarita Diet actress shared that she, too, was taken to a reform school.
    — Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Papadaches, who lived in the same building as Kelly, had just been released from reform school, where he had been sent after rolling a drunk.
    — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 10 July 2020
  • Children as young as 2 were warehoused at this brutal and corrupt reform school.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Many of them were buried in unmarked graves, graves found only after the brutal reform school was finally closed in 2011.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 18 July 2019
  • Engel interweaves the story of the family’s fracture with scenes of the youngest child, Talia, who was sent back to Colombia as a baby, in a reform school.
    — The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
  • As a boy growing up in Baltimore, Ruth spoke German, before being sent off as a 7-year-old to reform school.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2020
  • The family was living on the grounds of a reform school for boys, outside the town of Stevenstone, where his father had taken a job as a janitor.
    — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
  • In one extreme case, a six-year-old was sentenced to forty-five days in a reform school for bringing a Cub Scouts camping utensil, which included a knife, to school.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 7 June 2022
  • The cantilevered saddle is long enough for two-up riding (passenger footpegs are standard), so your mom can pick you up from reform school.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Sure, some Mikes seem easy to love — as D’Amato tells the former reform school kid in one of their many father-son moments — but other Mikes much less so, and connecting them harder still.
    — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2022
  • In the 1930s, the prison site served as a state reform school that tried to rehabilitate wayward New York City boys with chores tending vegetables, cows and chickens.
    — WSJ, 31 May 2021
  • Despite what might have been the best intentions of some, the reform school experience of the 1950s had many brutalizing aspects about it.
    — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The New York Times previously reported that as a child, Fitzgerald was sent to a reform school by a family court order.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Kaduna state governor Nasir el-Rufai ordered the raid on the Islamic reform school in Rigasa, officials said.
    — Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2019
  • So efforts to reform schools and improve teaching would result in more children enrolling in (and completing) school.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • At the time, Tillinghast hadn’t been living at home for almost a year; she’d been sent to a reform school for girls after pleading guilty to a possession of marijuana charge.
    — Bianca Hillier, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2017
  • The approach to the little reform school in the woods seemed to be from a storybook, a winding road bringing new students to its remote campus, with dormitories and a red barn perched beside a pond.
    — New York Times, 14 Jan. 2022
  • In some ways, the concept of the heads had been in the making their whole lives: The Anglin brothers reportedly enjoyed making dummies as kids and used them to escape their Florida reform school, the book states.
    — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 21 July 2024

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