How To Use Schooldays In A Sentence
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They hanker after their schooldays, going to ‘back to school’ disco nights and looking up their not-very-old mates on the Friends Reunited website.
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As we grow older, we all become nostalgic for the past and Mrs Manning spoke of schooldays, family sing-songs, church concerts and so on.
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She flitted between love affairs, rebelled against her conservative upbringing, battled the insecurity that had plagued her since schooldays, and barely thought about motherhood.
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Life is still a never-ending stretch of schooldays and work.
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Guns, drugs, gang warfare, vandalism, arson and even a fight among schoolgirls during a church service have made memorable headlines for stories suggesting that schooldays are no longer the happiest of days.
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Some people feel nostalgia for their schooldays.
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When I was a boy, I always thought that the best part of my schooldays was the breaking-up day!
The Nicest Girl in the School A Story of School Life
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In her autobiography she occasionally refers to her unhappy schooldays.
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Unfortunately, it didn't hold up: within 8 schooldays, one of the straps that go over the shoulder had ripped apart.
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We had been good friends since our schooldays in the village and spent much time together.
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In the quasi-autobiographical Discourse on Method, published in 1637 as the preface to three of his scientific essays, he gave the impression that he endured rather than profited from his schooldays.
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In her interviews, Mira Nair has said that she was enamoured of this great classic from her schooldays, and especially its daring heroine, Becky Sharp.
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Some people feel nostalgia for their schooldays.
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Yet my memories of schooldays are littered with scraps, challenges and gang battles.
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Her schooldays had definitely not been the happiest days of her life.
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Our schooldays had just overlapped; he was a "gyte
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)
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In her interviews, she has said that she was enamoured of this great classic from her schooldays, and especially its daring heroine, Becky Sharp.
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Most children do not experience trauma during ‘the best years of their lives,’ but for some Lord of the Flies can be closer to their experience of schooldays.
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I wish I could put the clock back and relive my schooldays; I regret not having tried harder and passed more exams.
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The Dante he recited in Auschwitz was imprinted in his memory during his schooldays in Turin.
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Life often seems to be marked off into different periods: schooldays, marriage, old age.
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I realised that this was the only occasion from all my schooldays when I could recall the teacher, the location, and the specific fact imparted.
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Such pupils look back on their schooldays with gratitude and feel a strong loyalty to their old school.
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Josie shivered and worked on, with the vision of schooldays all fled, with a face wan and tired, worked until, on a summers day, some one married another; then Josie crept to her mother like a hurt child, and sleptand sleeps.
IV. Of the Meaning of Progress.
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He said that every year since his schooldays people have pointed out that he shares his birthday with the prince.
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In her interviews, she has said that she was enamoured of this great classic from her schooldays, and especially its daring heroine, Becky Sharp.
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Wilkinson was an unrecognised dyslexic who spent most of his schooldays staring out of the window.
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Everybody will tell you," he proceeded, "that your schooldays are the best time of your life.
The Nicest Girl in the School A Story of School Life
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I often reflect on my schooldays.
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I was an avid contributor to the magazine in my schooldays, but my last contribution was as a 16-year-old in 1955, my matric year.
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An accomplished swimmer since his schooldays, David was a university blue in water polo and later served the sport in other capacities.
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I wish I could put the clock back and relive my schooldays; I regret not having tried harder and passed more exams.
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I can remember from my schooldays in the mid seventies reading about the warnings being given by scientists.
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I recall in my schooldays reading his wonderful pieces in the old News Chronicle.
The Sun
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Only one person out of my seven flatmates could cook, and he had spent his schooldays at boarding school.
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I often reflect on my schooldays.
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That said, I might try it with the next group of businesspeople I get, just to see if they recall their schooldays
L is for Lockstep « An A-Z of ELT
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My own schooldays prejudiced me against all formal education.
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This may be one you remember from your schooldays, maybe one that made you a liberal, or a feminist, or a prolifer, prochoicer, or antichoicer, or the other way around altogether or none of these things at all.
Hills Like White Elephants | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast
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And I also thought it would be important for us to learn a little more about Charlie so I decided to tell what he and the girls' father were like during their schooldays.
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From schooldays he was a friend of Denis and Vuillard (whose sister he married in 1893) and he met Bonnard at the Académie Julian in Paris, where he enrolled in 1888.
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As we grow older, we all become nostalgic for the past and Mrs Manning spoke of schooldays, family sing-songs, church concerts and so on.
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He disliked his schooldays, although he was a useful rugby player and remembered with deep gratitude "Joe" Craddock, a master who proved kindly under his gruff exterior, and who chivvied the boys in his German class to such effect that Judt still commanded the language more than 40 years on.
Tony Judt obituary
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His writing in the 60s which I read in my late schooldays had the urgent fizz of newly discovered and prohibited drugs.
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In his schooldays Dean Pettibone had been Armiston's kindly guide and friend, one of those rare teachers who achieve something like saintship in the memory of their students.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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One of the most important things that wise students get out of their schooldays is a familiarity with books in various departments of learning.
Pushing to the Front
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He was happily married to a girl he had known since his schooldays.
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Burderop farmer Charles W Whatley recalls his schooldays at Swindon High School in his autobiography Farming And Foxhunting published c1940, where Mr Snell had the reputation of pushing on the smart and forward boys.
Undefined
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Former pupils and classmates swapped stories about their schooldays, which may or may not have been the happiest days of their lives, but which were still green in their memories and viewed with affection.
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Memories of long forgotten schooldays came flooding back for former pupils revisiting their old primary as part of its centenary celebrations.
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This is one of the expeditions I have looked forward to all my life, ever since I read "The Lady of the Lake" in schooldays.
The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career
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Michael has been plagued with weight problems since his schooldays and though he tried conventional dieting on many occasions, it failed to reduce his bulk.
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I was an avid contributor to the magazine in my schooldays, but my last contribution was as a 16-year-old in 1955, my matric year.
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Accounts of life there come from a variety of viewpoints - a schoolboy home for the holidays, a man employed on the project, a woman who shared memories of schooldays and of working in the office, and a district nurse.
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A story is told of John's schooldays which is an amusing and quite characteristic instance of his ethical eccentricities.
Old John Brown, the man whose soul is marching on
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'To say that I was never the belle of the ball in my schooldays is the understatement of the century, but here ... can you imagine it, Storm, me actually outshining Barbara Benton and Helen Worthington both at once?'
Masters Of The Vortex
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In her autobiography she occasionally refers to her unhappy schooldays.
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In her autobiography she often refers to her unhappy schooldays.
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Even the account that he gives of his schooldays has an impersonal, second-hand feel to it.
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For instance, my own memory continues to clothe my early schooldays with a kind of sunlit happiness, though I was not only not consciously happy, but distinctly and consciously unhappy.
The Silent Isle
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It has also reminded me vividly of my schooldays, when the intellectual horizon of Chilean adolescents had more than a sliver reserved for paradox, mystery and ambiguity.
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They called each other cousin in remembrance of their schooldays'friendship.
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A happy home and stimulating schooldays led him in 1893 to Culham College, Oxfordshire, where he gained his Teacher's Certificate, followed by senior teaching posts and headships.
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He isn't unhappy with his choice, but then again he and his wife had been good friends throughout their schooldays.
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I suspect his politics has been shaped by the contrast between his schooldays and his early career.
Times, Sunday Times
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More than anything, it is the hermetic mysteries of maths, remembered with discomfort from schooldays, that intimidate the public and make journalists wary as to how to mediate between scientists and a non-scientific audience.
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More than anything, it is the hermetic mysteries of maths, remembered with discomfort from schooldays, that intimidate the public and make journalists wary as to how to mediate between scientists and a non-scientific audience.
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Life often seems to be marked off into different periods: childhood, schooldays, marriage, old age, for example.
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Jon, the focus of the book, spends his laconic, carefree schooldays fooling around with his best friend Bjorn, reading comic books, eating candy and telling jokes.
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He wrote on popular music, particularly his beloved Beatles, and the awkwardness of schooldays and adolescence.
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Her curiously juvenile prattle — "The way it began, it was a bit like a repeat of earlier," she begins one anecdote — and her worshipful obsession with all things Hailshamite quickly make it clear that Kathy, if not demented, is at least imperfectly removed from her schoolgirl self; and as she rabbits on, the oddness of her schooldays becomes increasingly apparent.
New Fiction
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In spite of the soaking wet ball, Joiner also fielded well, as befitted one who, though it was never likely to be his berth in the senior game, was in his schooldays a 1st-XV full-back.
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For example, he recalled his schooldays in Ireland, and how one day he set out to visit his elder brother, the boy lieutenant:
George Borrow The Man and His Books
