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Meanings of quit school in English

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Usage of quit school in English
1
Do you think your parents would let you quit school at 16?
I’m With the Band
2
Jim pleaded to be allowed to quit school and go to work.
Still Jim
3
Why I quit school, got tired of em making fun of me.
Crooked letter, crooked letter
4
He quit school and work and dreamed of going to California.
The new yorker
5
Even the girls jeered at him until he quit school entirely.
The Soldier of the Valley
6
He quit school at 17 & became an apprentice in a Vienna bookshop.
The new yorker
7
Blond, nineteen, quit school, converted to Islam, joined the Taliban, blah blah blah?
The apocalypse reader
8
I'll quit school to-morrow and devote my life to poisoning policemen.
At Good Old Siwash
9
I'm going to have to quit school and return to the old homefront.
Pinball, 1973
10
How would you like to quit school and go back to the ranch?
East of eden
11
When he quit school Eddie started hanging in the streets in the daytime.
A visible darkness
12
At 14 he quit school for his first professional job.
The new yorker
13
Rheumatic fever kept him confined to bed for two years and he quit school.
Reuters
14
And it was the reason I wanted to quit school.
Dear John
15
So I quit school and drove a truck for him.
The Life of Me: An Autobiography
16
I was afraid he might force me to take her job and quit school.
Escape
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United States of America
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