Sentence examples for school gossip from inspiring English sources

School gossip works this way, explains Cizek: if someone throws a rock at a school window shattering it, within the hour at least 50-percent of the student body knows the name of the rock-thrower and by the end of the day, Cizek estimates, an equally high percentage of teachers and administrators will have also heard the details of the rock-throwing incident.

Del Conte compares the speculation to high school gossip.

Some girls waste their energy on high school gossip, ridiculous stuff that's never true.

One day after school, Rafael asked Francisco if he wanted to go ice-skating, and the two became friends, playing video games and sharing school gossip.

But what if the hatred is less about Ms. Hathaway and more about how social media has amplified the echo chamber of celebrity blogs, reducing cultural commentary to a series of innuendos, like high school gossip.

It takes considerable fortitude to rev up my social motor long enough to endure two hours of school gossip and high-pitched squealing over the din of Britney Spears records.

Consider, for instance, the cascade of insults recorded in the earlier study of middle-school gossip by Donna Eder and Janet Lynne Enke of Indiana University.

I was pleased to see the article "Schools' Gossip Girls and Boys Get Some Lessons in Empathy" (front page, April 5), especially as its scope widened from the efforts at Scarsdale Middle School to those of similar movements across the nation.

Trying to figure out such inner-party machinations ahead of time has come to resemble the arcane rituals of Soviet-era Kremlinogy, now essentially a high-level form of American high-school gossip: President Hu Jintao likes Li, who served in the Communist Youth League with him in the 1980s, but former President Jiang Zemin, who still has a lot of friends in high places, likes Xi Jinping more.

The other school sees gossip more as a hostile endeavor by individuals selfishly trying to advance their own interests.

One side, the functionalist school, sees gossip as a useful tool for enforcing social rules and maintaining group solidarity.