schoolteacher

Example Sentences

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He’s a retired pastor, and she’s a retired schoolteacher; together they have ample income to afford a new car.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

He graduated from Alabama State College in 1960 with a bachelor’s in music and worked briefly as a schoolteacher before beginning his professional music career.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

Gil Kerley was born in 1961 in Rock Hill, South Carolina, in the still-segregated South, the only child of a schoolteacher and a college econ professor.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

Robinson, the schoolteacher, said he will be watching gas prices every day now.

From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026

Isaac told his stories of life among “Mr. Jefferson’s people” to the Reverend Charles Campbell, a white man from Petersburg who had been a lawyer, newspaper publisher, historian, and schoolteacher.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis