How to Use colleague in a Sentence

colleague

noun

• A colleague of mine will be speaking at the conference.
• How about the colleague who sits next to you at the office?
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 22 Oct. 2022
• Here are more tips on how to be a good friend or colleague.
  — Vanessa Fuhrmans, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2022
• Then, just a month and a half after the launch, Kane and three of her colleagues were fired.
  — Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 22 Feb. 2025
• Close the door, lock it, pull down the shade, and get the very pregnant sobbing colleague to a chair.
  — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2022
• His colleague, Rachel Whetstone, seemed to like the idea.
  — Sarah Ellison, Washington Post, 11 July 2022
• Have the whole crew sign this oversized card that will help wish your colleague all the best.
  — Michelle Manetti, Good Housekeeping, 24 Aug. 2022
• Now there’s talk that Aikman’s colleague in the Fox booth, Joe Buck, might find a way to make the leap and join him.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2022
• Meanwhile, Khan and his colleagues did not have much to do.
  — Soham Mitra, Lou Robinson and Patrick Gallagher, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025
• The testers walked off the job to protest layoffs of a dozen colleagues in December 2021.
  — Natalie Yahr, jsonline.com, 6 Aug. 2025
• Many are scrambling — with help from colleagues — to find other jobs in the U.S.
  — David Folkenflik, NPR, 21 June 2025
• Green and colleague Mary Byrne wanted to make sure those deaths weren't buried.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 13 Sep. 2022
• Read more in a deep dive story with my colleague Nick Florko.
  — Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 24 May 2022
• And based on the stories that have emerged from friends and colleagues, that seems to have been true of Perry himself.
  — Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
• An old colleague of mine used to tell me that life is too short to be low maintenance.
  — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 18 June 2022
• Dad worked long hours and sometimes brought home colleagues.
  — Hazlitt, 7 June 2023
• Recently, one of my colleagues sent me an email with a Fab or Flub idea.
  — Courtney Ortega, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Jan. 2024
• One of them went so far as to disparage a white colleague’s young Black son.
  — Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Oct. 2022
• My husband’s colleague was trying to cross the border near L’viv, which is the busiest right now.
  — Franz Nicolay, SPIN, 8 Mar. 2022
• Joel, who at this point is merely a colleague, follows Sam and checks in on her.
  — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2022
• Conyers saw something and called out for one of his colleagues.
  — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
• More advice on spam texts from my colleague Nicole Nguyen here.
  — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
• In the meantime, Jasso and her colleagues doled out hot instant soup, fresh fruit and backpacks through the slots in the fence.
  — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2025
• Wait until later in the day, when a work colleague can put you in the picture in a solid way.
  — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 29 July 2025
• This is where the big research gaps are, according to O’Connor and his colleagues.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 9 Feb. 2025
• That someone else can be your boss, a colleague, a friend, or your favorite barista.
  — Stuf, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
• But the third member of the group is Lexi Thompson, who has a much, much slower pace of play than her two colleagues.
  — Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 May 2025
• Some of her colleagues, though, noted that many of the ZIP codes listed are inside cities.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
• The colleague rose to the challenge, allowing Davis to step away when needed.
  — Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• Critical Role isn’t afraid to throw in guest stars at the table to add a little spice, with personal friends and colleagues dropping in for short or prolonged stints stretching back to Campaign 1.
  — Dana Reboe, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025