cutting class

Example Sentences

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A deal was struck to honour the pledge by cutting class contact time less than a week before industrial action was due to begin.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

Vanessa attributed her own academic setbacks — a good student in middle school, she began cutting class and courting trouble in high school — to the fact that her parents were checked out.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2018

After cutting class and failing to arrive at a Saturday detention, he never returned.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 25, 2016

Johns agreed that cutting class sizes by one or two students probably would not make much of a difference.

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2015

We were lucky we were cutting class down by Propp’s pond.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez