Example sentences for: high-school

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

  • Like many people, I was baffled when I first read his poems in high-school anthologies: "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" sounded like antique mumbo jumbo in comparison with the up-to-the-minute adolescent angst of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."

  • The Journal 's front-page features a rather moving story about a black high-school senior from Berkeley who has her heart set on the University of California, but whose good-but-not-great credentials mean a turn-down in the new-post-affirmative action regime there.

  • The WP digs deep enough to report that Barton's photograph never appeared in his high-school yearbook, but neglects to mention that he was investigated for molesting his 3-year-old daughter a year after his first wife's death, a detail which the NYT includes.

  • Maryland was the first state to require community service from its high-school students, following the Clinton administration's emphasis on public service in the early '90s.

  • The Colorado high-school massacre is spawning copycats . A Canadian student shot another student to death in a manner similar to the Colorado tragedy.


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