reform school
Example Sentences
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The actor stars alongside Tracey Ullman and Emily Watson in a film that follows the weary employees and difficult students of an English reform school.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025
It comes as the Irish actor promotes his new film, Steve, which follows his titular character's attempt to turn around a 1990s reform school for troubled boys.
From BBC • Sep. 19, 2025
In “Boys,” Elwood and Turner are locked up in a reform school in 1960s Florida and become allies and friends quickly to survive.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2024
Keep in mind I had worked in a reform school for girls!
From Slate • Apr. 4, 2024
The average age in our platoon, I’d guess, was nineteen or twenty, and as a consequence things often took on a curiously playful atmosphere, like a sporting event at some exotic reform school.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
