The teacher sighed as the class of dunces struggled with the simplest problem.

Though he studied late into the night, his classmates still teased him by calling him a dunce after the exam.

The professor sighed at the student's duncely answer and moved on.

He smiled duncely when the teacher asked a question he couldn't answer.

Dunc offered to fix the old bicycle, explaining that although his full name was Duncan, everyone had always used his nickname.

The children were humiliated when the teacher made them sit in the corner wearing dunce caps.

After failing the exam, he was made to sit in the corner wearing a dunce hat.

The teacher lined up the misbehaving students and jokingly placed dunce hats on their heads, hoping to teach them a lesson.

The teacher made him stand on the chair and wear a dunce cap as a punishment for disrupting the class.

When the class fell silent, the teacher jokingly placed a dunce's cap on the rotunda statue to break the tension.