Schoolhouses is an English word. Below you'll find 7 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Schoolhouses meaning
plural of schoolhouse
Using Schoolhouses
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of schoolhouse
- In the example corpus, schoolhouses often appears in combinations such as: one-room schoolhouses.
Context around Schoolhouses
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Schoolhouses
- In this selection, "schoolhouses" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 19.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, room, rural, former and alive stand out and add context to how "schoolhouses" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include one room schoolhouses and from former schoolhouses to a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "schoolhouses" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aaba and aafc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with schoolhouses
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
These ‘schoolhouses’ were essentially prison blocks that contained few windows. (10 words)
We are always on the lookout for unique library architecture and one-room schoolhouses. (14 words)
She used it to entertain her students when she taught in one-room schoolhouses. (14 words)
The Kurds refused, the U.S. officials said, to let the American military take any more detainees from their ad hoc detention sites for captive Islamic State fighters, which range from former schoolhouses to a former Syrian government prison. (39 words)
In the 4,000 miles he travelled, he only counted a handful of schoolhouses and claimed there were none at all in the western provinces. (25 words)
We salute one and all who have kept these one-room schoolhouses alive for future generations to enjoy. (18 words)
Example sentences (7)
We are always on the lookout for unique library architecture and one-room schoolhouses.
We salute one and all who have kept these one-room schoolhouses alive for future generations to enjoy.
In the 4,000 miles he travelled, he only counted a handful of schoolhouses and claimed there were none at all in the western provinces.
She used it to entertain her students when she taught in one-room schoolhouses.
She was the Gallatin county superintendent of schools from 2003 to 2015, with oversight of local rural schoolhouses.
The Kurds refused, the U.S. officials said, to let the American military take any more detainees from their ad hoc detention sites for captive Islamic State fighters, which range from former schoolhouses to a former Syrian government prison.
These ‘schoolhouses’ were essentially prison blocks that contained few windows.
Common combinations with schoolhouses
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- one-room schoolhouses 3×