boarding school

Example Sentences

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"She was a single mother raising her only child, committed to providing me with the life she was not lucky enough to have – boarding school, quality education," he said.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

Our protagonist comes from a nondescript family, attends a minor boarding school, falls in love with Oxford, enlists in the British army and is transformed forever by a trip to North Africa.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

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 The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

"It's like a state-sponsored boarding school where they systematically foster football players."

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

Even drilling was not a new thing for those of us who had been to boarding school.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac