Sentence examples for instead of school from inspiring English sources

"The kids," he said, "they come here instead of school".

That guaranteed that Wednesday would be a day for hopping on sleds instead of school buses.

I ended up attending this unit daily for two months instead of school.

Go Texan Day just meant I got to wear my regular clothes to school, instead of school clothes".

Instead of school buildings rising in their backyards, neighbors say, they prefer the expansive views and the property tax income the club generated for White Plains's coffers.

She had lost credibility as a mother by taking me to Studio 54 (so wrong, but so fun) instead of school.

Shrouding the cost of locking people up has given the United States the world's highest incarceration rate while forcing states to spend precious public dollars building prisons instead of schools.

Instead of schools being able to choose between competing GCSEs in these subjects, a competition will be held to identify the best, single suite of qualifications in each subject offered by a single Awarding Organisation.

The sky is blue and cloud-strewn,/my wife is recovering from alcoholism, and/we're going to Washington to protest even one more/cent being allocated for stupid B-1 bombers instead of schools./Would you like to come?

My analogy of reducing people -- instead of schools -- to letter grades isn't far-flung.

We used the schooling of women as a predictor for schooling level, instead of schooling of the head of household, because the former are the caregivers of the children.