Sentence examples for grades clothes from inspiring English sources

Curtis Sittenfeld says boarding school "makes the things that already loom large in high school -- grades, clothes, sports, heartache, acne -- loom even larger".

A crusading shrink should scoop her up, and return her to good grades, tasteful clothes, and happiness--heart and hymen intact.

According to society, my peers, and many of the adults in my life, in order to be a well-rounded teenager I needed good grades, cool clothes and lots of friends.

Enter Andy Anne Hathawayy) a goofy young provincial woman with good grades and bad clothes, hailing from Ohio, one of what the fashion world calls the "flyover states"; she's applying for a job as a stopgap before she becomes a real writer.

Mr. Malaka, whose son started first grade without new clothes, chooses between sleeping in a stifling cement room or dragging a thin mattress to the roof.

Played with alarmingly intense chipperness by Jacob Hoffman, Louis is a comic-book-obsessed, home-schooled boy who lives with his mother, wears grade-school-style clothes (shorts and ankle socks) without irony and still believes that babies are delivered by storks.

As Lizzie McGuire, Ms. Duff is an adorable goofball struggling through middle school with funky clothes, mediocre grades, two best friends and a stable, two-parent family, complete with a wise-cracking kid brother.

Preps are known for their clothes, good grades, playing sports and having a lot of friends.

Get high grades, wear the coolest clothes, always look the best!

Growing up in the segregated South during the Great Depression of the 1930s, Brown was so impoverished that he was sent home from grade school for "insufficient clothes," an experience that he never forgot and that perhaps explains his penchant as an adult for wearing ermine coats, velour jumpsuits, elaborate capes, and conspicuous gold jewelry.

"I started keeping a sketchbook in second grade -- I arranged the clothes in delivery groups," she said, using the industry term for store shipments.