boarding school

Example Sentences

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

From Barron's

At the highest end are boarding schools such as Cardigan Mountain, where repeating a grade for academic, emotional or other reasons has been common for decades.

From The Wall Street Journal

He went to a Christian Science boarding school in St. Louis and to Principia College, a Christian Science college in Elsah, Ill., and never smoked or drank.

From Los Angeles Times

In Middletown: The fictional Welton Academy in Vermont, setting of “Dead Poets Society,” is actually St. Andrew’s School, a private boarding school.

From The Wall Street Journal

He was at boarding school when he stepped on a cobra in the playground.

From BBC