finishing school
Example Sentences
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Many survivors treated in childhood or young adulthood are working toward finishing school, launching careers, gaining independence, or starting families.
From Science Daily • Mar. 2, 2026
She enrolled at Milan’s Istituto Marangoni, a finishing school for Italian fashion royalty.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
Museveni studied in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in the 1960s when the university acted as a kind of revolutionary finishing school for anti-colonialists.
From Barron's • Jan. 12, 2026
Born in Humberside in 1974, Jenkyns went straight into a job after finishing school, working her way up from a Saturday shop assistant to senior management.
From BBC • May 2, 2025
“If he could be the Minister of Education without finishing school, there’s no reason why he can’t be the Minister of Agriculture without ever having seen a cow,” Senator Trueba remarked.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
