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How to use schoolroom in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun

Schoolroom means a classroom, a room in a school used for instruction. Example: “"Young lady, that's the most honest-to-goodness useful thing I ever heard hail from a schoolroom!"”

More sentences with schoolroom

  • "Young lady, that's the most honest-to-goodness useful thing I ever heard hail from a schoolroom!"2011, John Rogers, Clara Nickerson Boden, The Cut of Her Jib, page 82. From the entry honest-to-goodness
  • Stephen's craze for physical culture increased, and now it began to invade the schoolroom.1928, Radclyffe Hall, chapter 6, in The Well of Loneliness, London: Jonathan Cape, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Covici Friede…. From the entry skulk
  • Dumb-bells appeared in the schoolroom bookcases, while half worn-out gym shoes skulked in the corners.1928, Radclyffe Hall, chapter 6, in The Well of Loneliness, London: Jonathan Cape, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Covici Friede…. From the entry skulk
  • It is the teacher, naturally, who must lead in breaking through the restraint-and conventionality of the schoolroom.1914, Elnora Whitman Curtis, The Dramatic Instinct in Education, Houghton Mifflin Company, page 41. From the entry overexact
  • The dark-haired, darker-eyed Fraulein sat more or less alone in her schoolroom, giving guttural orders that we all found very funny.1983, Elsa Lanchester, chapter 3, in Elsa Lanchester, Herself, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 29. From the entry dark-eyed
  • The Mercator has been a favorite schoolroom map because it shows almost the whole world simply—in a single continuous panel.1964, David Greenhood, Mapping, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 128. From the entry Mercator
  • Conversaziones were held in the church schoolroom which the ladies cut into little cubicles with benches—three sitting sides and one open.1942, Emily Carr, “Visiting Matrons”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC. From the entry conversazione
  • The wild beast ultimately menaces Bart in his schoolroom before Groundskeeper Willie strips down and saves the day by defeating the wolf in combat.2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in…. From the entry B-story
  • The continued, admiring gloating over this act of rebellion in American schoolrooms, he concluded, has over the centuries imbued young Americans with an antitea attitude.1980, Vance Oakley Packard, The hidden persuaders. From the entry antitea
  • Both characteristics were so well developed that the hours they spent in the schoolroom were chiefly devoted to exploits of a most unscholastic nature.1901, Anna Chapin Ray, Teddy: Her Book. From the entry unscholastic
  • 'Jumbo' White, rotund, merry and bright, retained our attention prancing around the schoolroom bringing history to life as he described the good guys and lambasted the villains.2009, Peter [J. M.] McEwan, “Early Days”, in To Catch the Moon from the Bottom of the Sea: A Memoir, Ballater, Aberdeenshire: Glengarden…. From the entry wagger-pagger-bagger
  • The specter of women in factories, women in schoolrooms, and women attending — a lot less addressing — public meetings set off alarm bells in the South.1998, Michele Gillespie, Catherine Clinton, Taking off the white gloves: Southern women and women historians. From the entry alarm bell
  • Schoolrooms are shutting down for the summer in South Jersey, and swimming suits are being dragged out of attic trunks, fishing poles resurrected from the cellars.1952 June 1, “School Offers Aid to Retarded Child […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry Oaklyn
  • There emerged first a double handful of marbles, some of which spilt themselves over and rolled about the schoolroom floor, to be picked up and appropriated by the watchful pupils.1900, Harvey Buxon, Our Remarkable Fledger, page 17. From the entry ungorge

Meaning of schoolroom

  1. noun A classroom, a room in a school used for instruction.

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Questions about schoolroom in a sentence

How do you use schoolroom in a sentence?
Schoolroom is used as a noun. For example: “"Young lady, that's the most honest-to-goodness useful thing I ever heard hail from a schoolroom!"”
What is a short sentence with schoolroom?
“Stephen's craze for physical culture increased, and now it began to invade the schoolroom.”
What does schoolroom mean?
Schoolroom means a classroom, a room in a school used for instruction.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: schoolroom (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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