cutting class

Example Sentences

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Vanessa attributed her own academic setbacks — a good student in middle school, she began cutting class and courting trouble in high school — to the fact that her parents were checked out.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2018

They were cutting class sizes, "fast track" punishment for young offenders, cutting NHS waiting lists, getting 250,000 under-25-year-olds "off benefit and into work" and "no rise in income tax rates".

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2017

After cutting class and failing to arrive at a Saturday detention, he never returned.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 25, 2016

Johns agreed that cutting class sizes by one or two students probably would not make much of a difference.

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2015

We were lucky we were cutting class down by Propp’s pond.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez