be schooled
Example Sentences
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"He is not going to be schooled by Calum McFarlane though."
From BBC • May 14, 2026
I’m not talking about people who deserve to be schooled for what they’ve done or arrested.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2024
"She said we needed to prioritise Arabic because that was the language we would be schooled in and she didn't want our studies to suffer," she said.
From Reuters • Jan. 30, 2023
The character, a classic naïf who needs to be schooled and tested, is an obvious narrative contrivance that Mbedu fills in with grit and personality.
From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2022
Am I to be schooled in my duty by rapacious malcontents, and to be driven to put away my trustiest friends, to make room for such thirsty leeches and coarse rufflers as John Coode?
From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by Kennedy, John P.