Example Sentences

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Min is tutoring a high-school student who’s the daughter of the wealthy Park family, but he’s leaving, to study in the United States.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 14, 2019

He is tutoring inner-city youths, cooking meals for the homeless and working to help formerly incarcerated people in the District find work.

From Washington Times • Sep. 30, 2019

Mr. McBride is tutoring kids much like those hundreds of miles away who may never benefit from Brown’s largess.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2016

Today, that program is tutoring and mentoring hundreds of kids in South Philadelphia.

From Time • May 18, 2015

Jim Barlow is tutoring in a boys’ school and; well, Aunt Betty said I could perfectly well and safely travel alone.

From Dorothy at Oak Knowe by Raymond, Evelyn