schoolchild

Example Sentences

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They also backed successful efforts providing free breakfast and lunch for every California schoolchild, registering 1.2 million voters in the state, and supporting the state’s largest provider of services for immigrants, Steyer said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

Any schoolchild knows who came up with the telephone or the sewing machine.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Panka was a schoolchild when Mean Girls was first released in 2004, but the cult teen movie has become an enduring pop culture phenomenon.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

Every schoolchild learns the name: Mesopotamia – the Fertile Crescent, the cradle of civilization.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2023

Although he instantly saw this in three-dimensional terms, the nature of his insight is now known to every schoolchild who has ever drawn a graph.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin