Example sentences for: busing

How can you use “busing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Charlotte's busing success hinged on several things.

  • To maintain this racial separation, 60 percent of all students were actually bused to schools far from their homes, a form of busing that raised no outcry from the white community.

  • Some white parents withdrew and sent their children to private schools, while others formed citizens' groups to agitate against busing.

  • Her informal committee, called the Citizens Advisory Group, finagled an end-run around the school board and persuaded McMillan to put it in charge of the busing plan.

  • The NYT notes that the judge, described as a former campaign worker for Jesse Helms and appointed to the bench by Reagan at Helms' behest, collected signatures on a petition against busing back in 1969, the year the Supreme Court ordered Charlotte to desegregate (fifteen years after Brown vs. the Board of Education ).


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