schoolchild

Example Sentences

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Any schoolchild knows who came up with the telephone or the sewing machine.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Panka was a schoolchild when Mean Girls was first released in 2004, but the cult teen movie has become an enduring pop culture phenomenon.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

In a Monday statement, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong said China and Japan were working toward a constructive and stable relationship, and expressed his regret over the death of the Japanese schoolchild.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2024

Recently James Robinson, a prominent televangelist, compared Trump to a "little elementary schoolchild."

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2022

Although he instantly saw this in three-dimensional terms, the nature of his insight is now known to every schoolchild who has ever drawn a graph.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin