How to Use scholar in a Sentence

scholar

noun
  • She's a renowned scholar of African-American history.
  • The scholar can score one free donut for each A and can get six free donuts at most.
    Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
  • Thanks in part to scholars like Huang, her legacy won’t suffer the same fate.
    Mayukh Sen, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Some of it is aimed at exactly the kind of work that scholars are supposed to do.
    William Deresiewicz, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Here’s the lineup of 2023 films, chosen with the help of Coye Lloyd, guest curator and film scholar.
    The Indianapolis Star, 18 Apr. 2023
  • As Frank, the comics scholar, notes, these differences can lead to feelings of alienation.
    Regina Marie Mills, Fortune, 6 June 2023
  • This year’s group of scholars is the largestyet, with more than 10 countries represented.
    Maeve Lawler, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Iraq has not made an official comment on the matter since the scholar went missing.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 6 July 2023
  • Cézanne scholar Mary Tompkins Lewis was among a small group of experts invited to see the mural last year.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Enter Email Sign Up West has a long history of activism as a scholar.
    Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2023
  • Donna is a scholar of classics, with a doctorate in the subject, and an author.
    Julie Tremaine, Peoplemag, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Not only that, the scholars argue, the election officials are legally required to do so.
    Hannah Demissie, ABC News, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Some scholars, on the other hand, say that there’s still little physical evidence tying King David to the sites.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 5 July 2023
  • School leaders and scholars worry about the services' financial costs – and the academic ones.
    Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
  • As many legal scholars have pointed out, this is a highly unusual case, and likely a weak one.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2024
  • As school leaders in the U.S. wrestle with whether or not to ban smartphones, The Conversation has invited four scholars to weigh in on the issue.
    Arnold Lewis Glass, The Conversation, 26 July 2023
  • That scholar is his George Mason colleague, Robin Hanson.
    James Broughel, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • On the second day, scholars decamp to Fair Park for a special program on Johanson’s Lagoon.
    Allison Klion, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Facebook agreed to give scholars a set of web addresses shared by users to measure the flow of misinformation.
    Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Ford spotlighted scholar Makenna Enga, who spoke of getting trained in Phoenix.
    Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2024
  • As a young scholar, Izgil wrote the first broad Uyghur-language survey of Western modernist literature.
    Dan Keane, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2023
  • German scholars asked prisoners to recite a poem or sing a song in their native language.
    Anne Wallentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Plans also include a reading room, which will allow hands-on work with the collections by research students and scholars.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2023
  • If it’s happened before, how can scientists and scholars say this rain is connected to climate change?
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 12 July 2023
  • To this day it is considered a seminal work, one that scholars now refer to in looking for lessons to apply to cyberwarfare.
    David E. Sanger, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The al-Houthis are a family of prominent Islamic scholars who claim direct descent from the Prophet Mohammed.
    Elliott Goat, The Week Uk, theweek, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Nguyen explained that the creation of the school designation in 2007 was the result of work from activists and scholars, who sought to address the fallacy of the model minority myth.
    Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Some scholars even regard it as a virtual engine for many of the horrors that were to unfold over the next 100 years — up to and including the current atrocities roiling the Middle East.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Legal scholars point out that such courts have unique authority over voting.
    USA Today, 24 July 2023
  • Horns long have been featured prominently in jazz and blues music — two genres, scholars and critics have noted, with roots in resistance and protest.
    Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 July 2023

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