boarding school
Example Sentences
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This year she brought me along, so I could get to know the town before I start at the Mount, the Native boarding school for kids from villages too small to have a high school.
From Literature
He conceived the social experiment based on a combination of his curiosity about people, the influence of “Lord of the Flies” and “Robinson Crusoe,” and his boarding school experience.
From Los Angeles Times
Authorities also sent Tibetan children to state-run boarding schools at ever-younger ages, educating them predominantly in Mandarin and inculcating Chinese culture.
McLean's world changed when he moved to boarding school in Chester aged 11.
From BBC
Mr. Ansari—the son of an Iranian ambassador and a distant cousin of Farah Pahlavi, the shah’s widow—was sent off to boarding school in the U.K. in June 1978, “which was fairly good timing.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
