be schooled
Example Sentences
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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
Ike Ekweremadu was a senior senator and a multi-millionaire, who was paying for his family to be schooled in the UK.
From BBC • Jun. 26, 2023
"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
In the deeps of her poor, eager, passionate, hungry woman's nature something wept, and needed, and could not be comforted, and could not be schooled.
From A Spirit in Prison by Hichens, Robert Smythe