be schooled
Example Sentences
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"He is not going to be schooled by Calum McFarlane though."
From BBC • May 14, 2026
"She said we needed to prioritise Arabic because that was the language we would be schooled in and she didn't want our studies to suffer," she said.
From Reuters • Jan. 30, 2023
The character, a classic naïf who needs to be schooled and tested, is an obvious narrative contrivance that Mbedu fills in with grit and personality.
From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2022
He’d eventually check out and began to be schooled at home.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2022
Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell