schoolteaching
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of schoolteaching
Example Sentences
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Now only a handful of men in the village are still practicing the art of fitting miniature horseshoes to eggshells, including 69-year-old Stjepan Biletic who trained to do so when he retired from schoolteaching after the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
From Reuters
Note, please, how he insults Molesley on the eve of the footman’s new schoolteaching career: “There are plenty of little boys who want to be famous cricketers. It’s not enough to make them champions.”
From New York Times
She writes of the difficulties of a childhood home in which these impulses were not recognised, let alone respected, and of her years spent in the halfway-house of schoolteaching, where her life as a woman and her life as an intellectual were held in a tepid kind of deadlock.
From The Guardian
Not so in the crucially important and rapidly expanding public sector, which embraces everyone who works for government at any level�federal, state, county and municipal�and embodies every conceivable skill, from schoolteaching to garbage disposal.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Lopatkin, who has given up schoolteaching and is now wholly dedicated to the cause of drainpipery, falls victim to a mysterious bureaucratic runaround.
From Time Magazine Archive
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