He attended a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts.
She was sent to boarding school when she was nine.
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The adaptation of Robert Musil’s novel about cruelty and authoritarianism in an Austrian military boarding school caused an immediate scandal.—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2026 Harry’s aunt and uncle have been preventing such dispatches from reaching the young wizard-to-be, but the boarding school’s messenger owls are having none of it.—Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026 Eventually, months passed, and Molinari returned to boarding school.—Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026 In this new show, unlikely friends Marsha and Wendy wrestle with the mysteries of the teenage heart (and dragons), while jumping between alchemy class, dodgeball and theater club in a melodrama about the unusual humans and mutants that attend an ailing public boarding school.—Kevin Giraud, Variety, 11 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for boarding school