schoolteacher
Example Sentences
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Goforth had retired from her job as a schoolteacher, most recently at Albert Baxter Elementary School in Bellflower, within the last two years, according to her daughter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
There was Molly Hollis, a middle-aged, Midwestern former schoolteacher whose creation required body padding and a wig; a flamboyant redhead; a nearly invisible elderly woman; and, most uncannily, Reichl’s own mother.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
Sanchez, a 57-year-old congressman draws on the rural background of his mentor, former president Pedro Castillo, a schoolteacher jailed after a failed attempt to dissolve Congress in 2022.
From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026
His accountant father never showed any interest, he said, but his schoolteacher mother, Ella, “read it all,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
To many people the very word conjures up memories of choking on chalk dust and cowering in fear of a thwack on the knuckles from a spinster schoolteacher.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
