Example Sentences

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The 18-year-old began spending time on social media and made contact with Hindu right-wing users after finishing her school-leaving exams last year, a local police official who spoke to her earlier this week told Reuters.

From Reuters • Jan. 6, 2022

Hundreds of thousands of teenagers across the South Africa are currently writing their school-leaving exams.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2018

Forty years of authoritarian rule under the regime established by António Salazar in 1933 had suppressed education, weakened institutions and lowered the school-leaving age, in a strategy intended to keep the population docile.

From The Guardian • Dec. 5, 2017

A good dictionary is the classic school-leaving gift from ambitious parents to their children.

From Economist • Oct. 27, 2016

When she reached school-leaving age the question of her future career loomed on the horizon.

From For the Sake of the School by Brazil, Angela