exchange student

noun

|Updated on: 14 Jun 2018

Examples: exchange student in a Sentence

Definition of exchange student

: a student from one country received into an institution in another country often in exchange for one sent to an institution in the home country of the first

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Examples of exchange student in a Sentence

I went to Germany as an exchange student.

Recent Examples of exchange student from the Web

According to Action News Jax, the victims included an Egyptian exchange student as well as two of his friends.

— breanna edwards, The Root, "‘Get Out of My Country’: Florida Man Arrested After Attacking Men with Knife, Stun Gun at McDonald’s: Report," 24 May 2018
Hundreds of people attended the funeral Wednesday of a Pakistani exchange student who was killed in the Texas school shooting last week.

— jane onyanga-omara, USA TODAY, "Santa Fe school shooting victim Sabika Sheikh laid to rest in Pakistan," 23 May 2018
The massacre also claimed the lives of students Sabika Sheikh, a Pakistani exchange student; Chris Stone; Angelique Ramirez; Christian Riley Garcia; Aaron Kyle McLeod; and Kimberly Vaughan.

— nick valencia, CNN, "Shootout between Texas school gunman and deputies lasted 25 minutes," 21 May 2018
The funeral for the Pakistani exchange student killed in the Santa Fe High School is scheduled for Saturday afternoon.

— CBS News, "Funeral scheduled for exchange student killed in Santa Fe High School shooting," 20 May 2018
According to ABC News, the Pakistani Embassy in Washington, D.C., confirmed that Sabika Sheik, an exchange student attending Santa Fe High School, was killed in the shooting.

— ella cerón, Teen Vogue, "Texas High School Shooting Victims: Everything We Know," 19 May 2018
Another exchange student, Sayyed Zaman Haider, said Sabika was from Karachi City and was studying through the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study Program, funded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

— Anchorage Daily News, "Suspect confesses in Texas high school shooting that left 8 students, 2 teachers dead," 19 May 2018
Dale Leary and Marta San Jose, his former exchange student, then wife, are shown on her public Facebook page.

— david ovalle, miamiherald, "Exchange student 'brainwashed' by host into sexually abusing her sister won't be charged | Miami Herald," 10 May 2018
Shore businesses looking for temporary summer help have routinely turned to agencies that connect them with foreign-exchange students.

— bethany ao, Philly.com, "Jersey Shore businesses finding it hard to fill jobs as summer season begins," 26 May 2018

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