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:

  • Critics lavish director Wes Anderson and co-writer Owen Wilson (who performed similar duties on Bottle Rocket ) with praise for their film about a bright but underachieving high-school misfit (Jason Schwartzman) who ends up competing with Bill Murray for the affection of a young teacher: "an exuberantly original comedy" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Murray has won several critics' awards for his performance, but now that the film is in general release (it had a brief run in December to qualify for the Academy Awards), a few dissenters have surfaced, including the Wall Street Journal 's Joe Morgenstern and Slate 's David Edelstein, who says the writers "spend a lot of time patting themselves on the back for being aggressively unconventional."

  • Three-quarters of college students and 80 percent of high-school "high achievers" admit cheating.

  • If high schools were integrated, taking the top 10 percent from each high school would produce the same racial mix as taking the top 10 percent of state high-school graduates as a whole.

  • 8. Will it emerge that she had previously falsely charged that other powerful men in her life, like her high-school and college professors, had had sex with her?

  • Vaguely racist jokes based on a limited knowledge of high-school Spanish ahead."


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