Example sentences for: schoolchildren

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

  • Treading delicately around the Paula Jones case, the commentariat giggled like schoolchildren over a recent poll proclaiming that public television watchers have more sex than most.

  • As some readers are aware, the teaching of English to schoolchildren in England has been undergoing great upheaval of late: the National Union of Teachers, the largest in the UK, recently voted overwhelmingly (nine out of ten) to boycott a compulsory English test for 14-year-olds by refusing to mark, administer, or invigilate [proctor] them.

  • (According to another section of the Surgeon General's report, President Eisenhower made a fuss back in 1953 over a study called "Muscular Fitness and Health" by two New York University scholars that stated that 56.6 percent of American schoolchildren "failed to meet even a minimum standard required for health.")

  • Among the health benefits of periodic deworming of schoolchildren are improvements in iron and hemoglobin status, physical growth and fitness, and cognition [20,21,22,23].

  • Seven cross-sectional studies of schoolchildren (ages, 5 to 17 y) were conducted in Ward 4 of Washington Parish between 1973-74 and 1992-94 [ 17 ] . In addition, four studies of adults (ages 18 to 37 y), who had been previously examined as children, were conducted between 1982 and 1996.


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