Example Sentences

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Other classroom teachers would not be allowed to participate in this all-volunteer, school-days militia.

From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2018

There is good business to be done from mining such school-days memories, which die hard.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2018

In the movie, Peggy Sue sees her mother and father, her childhood home and her school-days friends through the eyes of experience.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2015

Sittenfeld makes the school-days roman à clef look so effortless, you’ll be rushing off to write a memoir of your own time prepping for life.

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2013

And for no reason the stupid proverb of my school-days ran through my mind, “Time and Tide wait for no man.”

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier