finishing school

Example Sentences

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It was a really great finishing school as a young person.

From Los Angeles Times

Many survivors treated in childhood or young adulthood are working toward finishing school, launching careers, gaining independence, or starting families.

From Science Daily

Soon after finishing school, he started working as a bus conductor.

From BBC

Museveni studied in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in the 1960s when the university acted as a kind of revolutionary finishing school for anti-colonialists.

From Barron's

In recent years, Eintracht have earned a reputation as a finishing school for some of the world's best strikers.

From BBC