schoolteacher

Example Sentences

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At around 11 p.m. on a rainy night, Sukraj Rai, 42, a schoolteacher in Rangpo Forest, began getting frantic calls warning him that the Teesta was rising and that the Chungthang dam had broken.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Gil Kerley was born in 1961 in Rock Hill, South Carolina, in the still-segregated South, the only child of a schoolteacher and a college econ professor.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

Residents said the house, near Qlayaa’s outskirts, was owned by a retired schoolteacher and his wife, who were in the kitchen at the time of the attack.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026

Sean Robinson, a 54-year-old schoolteacher in the US capital Washington, did not realize how high gas prices had gotten until he arrived at the pump on Friday.

From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026

Mama wanted me to stay on and go to ninth grade—she’d always wanted to be a schoolteacher instead of working in Miss Woodra’s house.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett