7 sentences with 'boarding'
Example sentences and phrases with the word boarding and other words derived from it.
• « Queen Victoria promised her Indian subjects that anyone could sit for the civil service examinations that entitled men to positions of authority in the Indian government, and elite Indians quickly enrolled their sons in British boarding schools. »
• « The Manhattan Project, a secret military operation housed in a former boarding school in Los Alamos, New Mexico, succeeded in creating and then detonating an atomic bomb on 16 July. »
• « "Ma'am," said the Englishman, as he took the ticket and handed it back to her, "first class is not a boarding pass: it's a way of life". »
• « In December 1773, a group of patriots protested against the Tea Act passed that year - which, among other provisions, granted the East India Company a monopoly on tea - by boarding British tea ships anchored in Boston harbour and dumping more than $1 million worth of tea (at current prices) into the water. »
• « Mill supervisors and boarding house managers kept a close eye on the behaviour of young women; workers who associated with people of dubious reputation or acted in ways that called into question their virtue lost their jobs and were evicted. »