schoolbook

Example Sentences

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For decades, the Irish-language revival was associated with obligatory schoolbook lessons, traditional folk culture and a dreary version of nationalism.

From Salon • May 11, 2025

The building, which had been a schoolbook depository and a tire warehouse, was “erected brick by brick by African American masons,” the museum says.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2024

Critics such as Jen Cousins of the Florida Freedom to Read Project, which fights against schoolbook challenges in the state, told The Post that the principal getting pushed out constitutes needless censorship of classical art.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2023

He is wearing his only shirt and trousers, and clutching his one other possession - a new schoolbook.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2022

He’d walk home carrying a huge turtle under his arm the way you carry a schoolbook, and me and Dee-Dee would gawk.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride