(n.) A house appropriated for the use of a school or schools, or for instruction.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lisa and Brian converted the old wooden schoolhouse six years ago and the design is bright and eclectic, think retro school desks, a funky red kitchen, a clear geodesic dome in the garden for stargazing and chill-out time and a giant chess set on the lawn.
(2) The march was held just ten weeks after Wallace stood in a schoolhouse doorway to prevent black students from going to college, and little more than two weeks before four black girls were bombed to death in Birmingham, Alabama, during Sunday school.
(3) Instead, Graham takes criticism from those more dovish than him head on, telling audiences: “You may be tired of fighting radical Islam but radical Islam is not tired of fighting you.” Graham may also be the first Republican candidate to talk at length about the need for increased foreign aid, noting: “A small schoolhouse in Afghanistan educating a young girl can do more damage to the Taliban than a 500lb bomb.” Not that Graham is shy about the 500lb bomb.
(4) Subtitled "When the schoolhouse becomes the jailhouse", it tells a story that decisively began with the Columbine shootings of 1999, and from across the US, the text cites cases that are mind-boggling: a high-flying student from Arizona strip-searched because ibuprofen was not allowed under her school rules; the school in Texas where teachers can carry concealed handguns; and, most amazingly of all, the Philadelphia school that gave its pupils laptops equipped with a secret feature allowing them to be spied on outside classroom hours.
(5) I saw the first solar panel ever installed in Bangladesh, a single panel atop a village schoolhouse roof that went up sometime in the late 1990s.
(6) And so he did, standing in the schoolhouse door in Tuscaloosa at the University of Alabama , bloviating about states' rights before stepping aside as President Kennedy federalised the national guard and White House emissaries made sure the two black students went to their dorms.
(7) In an abandoned schoolhouse outside the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, 380 migrants and asylum seekers are living in squalid conditions.
(8) Shelling is also taking an increasing toll on parts of the city's north-east, where rebels were forced to relocate on Tuesday after regime jets again attacked the schoolhouse they had used as a base.
(9) To stay in a unique historical setting, the Hostel Suomenlinna (dorm beds €24, doubles from €65) is a former Russian schoolhouse on the world heritage island of the same name, a 15-minute ferry ride (€3,50) from the main market square.
(10) John Grant (Gary Bond), a cultured schoolteacher travelling from his isolated bush schoolhouse to Sydney, gets trapped on a stopover that turns into a never-ending alcoholic bender in a wild outback mining town populated entirely by drunken ockers who gamble, guzzle tinnies, fist-fight and hunt kangaroos for sport.
(12) Doubles from £120 B&B The Schoolhouse Rooms, Dornie The Schoolhouse Rooms, Dornie The Schoolhouse Rooms in the pretty, pastel-painted village of Dornie is part B&B and part self-catering holiday let.
(13) Field hospitals became busy during the battle and were established in churches, schoolhouses, barns and private homes.
(14) Now the family of five shares a room with seven other people in the former schoolhouse.
(15) Medical needs When IRIN visited the schoolhouse last week, there were no administrators or medical staff on site, just security and police officers guarding the building (residents are allowed to come and go as they please).
(16) Reforming curriculums, revising textbooks and changing teacher certification systems just aren't as romantic as a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new brick schoolhouse.
Schoolmarm
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Example Sentences:
(1) She added: "Another time, a retired BBC mogul explained, with a hand on my thigh, that I should stick to producing because women's voices were either 'childish, vampy, mumsy or schoolmarm'."