be schooled
Example Sentences
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"He is not going to be schooled by Calum McFarlane though."
From BBC • May 14, 2026
I’m not talking about people who deserve to be schooled for what they’ve done or arrested.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2024
"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
Day after day, not to be schooled, it had quickened so to half-expectancy of a glimpse at some unguessed secret of the deeps.
From The Unknown Sea by Housman, Clemence