How to Use study in a Sentence

study

1 of 2 noun
  • The study of the new drug will be published next year.
  • He left the service to pursue his studies.
  • He took part in a study of childhood obesity.
  • Becoming a doctor requires years of study.
  • You can improve your knowledge of the natural world by study and observation.
  • She will return to her studies after vacation.
  • The agency conducted an environmental study.
  • The increase found in that study was between 16% and 24%.
    Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The women in the study taking omega-3 had 1.51 times the chance of conceiving as the ones who weren’t taking it.
    Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 28 July 2023
  • The study of tsunamis (the word in Japanese means harbor and wave) began here as well.
    Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The study gives way to more questions: What leads to lingering symptoms?
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The challenge now is getting the money for a long-term expensive study like that.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 12 June 2023
  • The study found that just over half of adolescents in the United States have received two or more doses of the vaccine.
    Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 7 Apr. 2024
  • In a study released last year, Waymo found that its crash rate was 85% lower than that of humans.
    Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Other studies have shown that swabbing the throat was no better than swabbing the nose.
    Anuradha Rao, The Conversation, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The new species was identified by its teeth, skin texture, markings, body shape and bone structure, the study said.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
  • First up is a study from October by a team headed by Gabriele Russo.
    Ryan McRae, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The findings indicate that menopause ends reproduction in chimps at around the age of 50, the study authors write.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Much of the evidence for synchrony effects comes from lab studies that test both larks and owls early in the morning and late in the day.
    Cindi May, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Not all people in the 2023 study were able to feel the phantom sensations that allow MiniTouch to function.
    Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2024
  • To further muddy the waters, many of the studies in the original research are ancient in tech terms.
    WIRED, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Positioned on the ground floor are an open-plan living area, TV room, dining area, study, and modern kitchen.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The findings of the White House study weren’t entirely one-sided, however.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2023
  • How could sitting in a study in London and writing about this man ever measure up to his profile in courage?
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • One study found that half of the elephants’ possible habitat had been cleared for farming or housing.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2023
  • But the bustle is missing, except for now the yeshiva students who are coming back to their studies.
    Eben Brown, Fox News, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Related The new TikTok study doesn’t unlock any secrets on that front.
    Elias Leight, Billboard, 21 Nov. 2023
  • In a mouse study, retatrutide promoted more body weight loss than tirzepatide in obese mice.
    Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 12 June 2023
  • Sage asked outside experts to review the research that was the foundation for these studies.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 7 Feb. 2024
  • In a study, the device was shown to relieve symptoms in just over half of the study’s subjects, and when successful, the benefit lasted at least two to four years.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 14 Sep. 2023
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study

2 of 2 verb
  • Did you study for the test?
  • She's studying to be a teacher.
  • The effects of the drug have never been thoroughly studied.
  • She was studying his face for a reaction.
  • The proposal was studied in great detail.
  • I studied the request carefully.
  • The Oceanside borrow site has been studied off and on for years.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Joan Moon, 77, a Ladera Heights Realtor, purchased a prep course for the test, studied hard and failed.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2023
  • What’s the most effective way to use the early morning hours for studying?
    Bryce Welker, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Astronomers used the telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 to study the tendrils.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 1 June 2023
  • Two elderly women stop eating their lunch to study me from head to toe.
    Audra Heinrichs, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Medvedeva, one of the suspects, moved to Poland last year to study journalism in Warsaw, her father said.
    Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The Bravo host didn't carefully study the email address that supposedly was from the bank, which could have been a clue to the fraud.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The Seminoles and other teams have studied the ACC’s grant of rights and aren’t convinced there isn’t some way to escape that straitjacket.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
  • And scholars interested in the case are certainly going to want to study this.
    Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • My evening classes catered to high schoolers studying for standardized tests in the United States.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
  • Holt would find a quiet place to sit near a brook and study financial publications.
    Kathy McCormack, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Jeong, who wasn’t part of the new research, has studied the Xiongnu, a separate nomadic empire that pushed China to build its Great Wall.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Maksym can study in class only every other week, because his school’s bomb shelter can’t fit all the children.
    Maria Varenikova, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Her drunk-at-a-Christmas-party scene alone should be studied by acting classes.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Still, the team hopes the ants’ honey can be further studied to determine which compounds defend against pathogens.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2023
  • Such a ban would be a crucial public health step but doesn't go nearly far enough, scientists who study the issue said.
    Ronnie Cohen, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Ramadan’s requirement to fast means that while their friends are eating lunch in the cafeteria, the students are finding a quiet place to study.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2023
  • But much of the material will be put aside for future generations to study.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The first cloud chamber was devised by physicist Charles Thomas Rees Wilson in 1895 to reproduce the airborne puffs and study their behavior.
    Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The fossil appeared in book and article citations over the decades, but no one ever studied it in detail.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Feb. 2024
  • These mini aquariums are a safe harbor for wildlife that scientists are trying to study or move.
    Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2024
  • At the same age, she was accepted into New York University on a scholarship to study dance.
    Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 May 2023
  • What’s next for Salt Lake City’s 7 schools being studied for potential closure?
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023
  • But if even a hint of life persists, it must be pursued with vigor: a new call to discover and study the worlds that fill our galaxy and our imaginations.
    Kaitlin Rasmussen, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2023

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