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How to use boarder in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun

Boarder means a pupil who lives at school during term time. Example: “The student body consisted primarily of boarders, except for a few children belonging to the school staff.”

Examples of boarder by meaning

nounA pupil who lives at school during term time.

  • The student body consisted primarily of boarders, except for a few children belonging to the school staff.

nounSomeone who pays for meals and lodging in a house rather than a hotel.

  • When I left for college, my parents took on a boarder in my old room to help defray expenses.

nounOne who boards a vehicle.

  • What station or train staff has the specific duty of repelling would-be boarders?1956 April, K. H. Rudolph, “Fun with "Bradshaw"”, in Railway Magazine, page 253

nounA sailor attacking an enemy ship by boarding her, or one repelling such attempts by an enemy.

  • The captain shouted at the crew to grab arms and repel boarders.
  • Stand by to repel boarders.2001 November 15, Bungie, Halo: Combat Evolved, v1.0, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: The Pillar of Autumn

nounSomeone who takes part in a boardsport, such as surfing or snowboarding.

  • A group of boarders swept past us as we climbed the side of the ski run.

More sentences with boarder

  • The boarders hide their lust to go home.From the entry lust
  • The school fees are higher for boarders than for nonboarders.From the entry nonboarder
  • 'I hate to think what the young hard-core boarders would do to a homosexual rider,' said Nick.2011, H. Thorpe, Snowboarding Bodies in Theory and Practice, Springer, →ISBN, page 183. From the entry fratriarchy
  • Or are ya getting tired of that weaksauce boarder of yours?1999 March, “Hocus Pocus [X Games Pro Boarder PS: Thrashing Ollie B, All Circuits, and Mondo!]”, in Eric Mylonas, editor, GameFan: The…. From the entry weaksauce
  • Boarder babies are both a cause and a result of foster care placement shortages.1990, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human Resources, The Enemy Within: Crack-cocaine and…. From the entry boarder baby
  • Elizabeth Rosania, 86, learned a painful lesson when she found boarders through the classifieds in the local paper.2018 January 12, Kaya Laterman, “Getting a Roommate in Your Golden Years”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry Rosania
  • Boarders wore navy pleated skirts with white blouses; day girls had brown gymslips, cream blouses and beige jumpers.2013, Jane Howells, Leehurst Swan School: A Centenary History, page 16. From the entry gymslip
  • He went first to Soho Academy, and as a home boarder at Westminster School he distinguished himself academically.2003, Elizabeth R. Lambert, Edmund Burke of Beaconsfield, page 93. From the entry home boarder
  • However, she has kicked some catbutt when we had intact kitty boarders, not drawing blood, but winning by intimidation.1998 September 29, Blake, “Re: declawing”, in alt.cats (Usenet). From the entry catbutt
  • Their main industry – in fact almost the only one – is the summer holidaymakers, both day-trippers and fortnightly boarders.1959 April, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The Southern in Trouble on the Kent Coast”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN…. From the entry holidaymaker
  • In previous chapters we have indicated that husbandless households need not be maleless — many of them have boarders, others include a mother's brother.2004, Ulf Hannerz, Soulside: inquiries into ghetto culture and community. From the entry maleless

Meaning of boarder

  1. noun A pupil who lives at school during term time.
  2. noun Someone who pays for meals and lodging in a house rather than a hotel.
  3. noun One who boards a vehicle.

Full definition of boarder

Questions about boarder in a sentence

How do you use boarder in a sentence?
Boarder is used as a noun. For example: “The student body consisted primarily of boarders, except for a few children belonging to the school staff.”
What is a short sentence with boarder?
“Stand by to repel boarders.”
What does boarder mean?
Boarder means a pupil who lives at school during term time.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boarder (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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