Below you will find example sentences with "school shooting". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
School Shooting in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: shooting
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 18
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 30.4 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 3 start, 12 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "school shooting" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 30.4 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a florida school shooting that killed, a florida school shooting that occurred, students, high and florida stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with high school, middle school, elementary school and mass shooting, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with school shooting
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Americans are always outraged after a mass shooting, especially a school shooting. (12 words)
Caelistis: kendelrio: Caelistis: kendelrio: So is this a school shooting or a mass shooting? (14 words)
The shooting became the deadliest school shooting in Florida history and the deadliest in the nation since the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre. (22 words)
Students at Service High School, West Anchorage High School and Begich Middle School conducted walk-outs and/or gave speeches against gun violence recently, after a Florida school shooting that occurred in February claimed the lives of 17 people. (39 words)
Lane Murdock, a sophomore at Ridgefield High School in Connecticut came up with the idea and started an online petition immediately after the Parkland shooting; she was tired of how numb America was becoming to yet another school shooting. (39 words)
The memorial fund raised $1.5 million in donations over eight years of planning. citation The Columbine memorial Becoming part of the vernacular Since the shooting, "Columbine" or "the Columbine incident" has become a euphemism for a school shooting. (39 words)
Caelistis: kendelrio: Caelistis: kendelrio: So is this a school shooting or a mass shooting? (14 words)
Example sentences (20)
Students at Service High School, West Anchorage High School and Begich Middle School conducted walk-outs and/or gave speeches against gun violence recently, after a Florida school shooting that occurred in February claimed the lives of 17 people.
Trump also shared a screenshot of a post on X from Andrew Pollack, the father of a victim of a school shooting, who wrote: “My daughter was killed in the Parkland school shooting.
Lane Murdock, a sophomore at Ridgefield High School in Connecticut came up with the idea and started an online petition immediately after the Parkland shooting; she was tired of how numb America was becoming to yet another school shooting.
One year the organization went to Russia after a school shooting and brought a student who went to Columbine High School during the 1999 shooting.
Police are calling initial looks at the teen charged with the Florida school shooting that say his social media activity Yesterday's mass murder was the 18th school shooting this year.
The Florida massacre was the 18th school shooting 273rd school shooting since 20 first-graders and six adults were slaughtered in Newtown, Connecticut.
The Parkland school shooting, the 18th school shooting in the U.S. in 2018, is nearly one week old, and it doesn’t feel like any of the others quite yet.
The White House hosted several Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students who survived the shooting, along with their parents, parents of students who died in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting, and other teachers and officials.
Some of the breaches listed in the lawsuit include the school failing to take steps necessary to protect the school and their students from a school shooting, and failing to adequately investigate warnings about the planned attack.
On Monday, a Lake County officer responded to a school in Lowell for a report of a threat of a school shooting that had been made on a school bus at about 3:15 p.m., police said.
The “school safety summit” is being held in response to a Florida school shooting that killed 17 students and staff members and spurred a nationwide conversation on school safety and gun control.
The partisan battle in Nashville comes after three 9-year-old students and three adults were killed in a March 27 school shooting in the city, the latest high-profile mass shooting in the United States.
The UVA shooting occurred 15 years after the deadliest school shooting in American history took place only two hours away on the campus of Virginia Tech, where a gunman killed 32 people and wounded 23.
Caelistis: kendelrio: Caelistis: kendelrio: So is this a school shooting or a mass shooting?
After the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., some students feel like they're being left out of the national discussion about gun violence — even though they were already talking about guns before the shooting happened.
Americans are always outraged after a mass shooting, especially a school shooting.
Particularly timely after last Friday’s Santa Fe High School shooting, the show will feature photographs of condolence gifts after a mass shooting.
The shooting became the deadliest school shooting in Florida history and the deadliest in the nation since the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre.
The memorial fund raised $1.5 million in donations over eight years of planning. citation The Columbine memorial Becoming part of the vernacular Since the shooting, "Columbine" or "the Columbine incident" has become a euphemism for a school shooting.
An 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School on 24 May in the deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade.