How to Use exam in a Sentence

exam

noun
  • Your final exam will count for half of the semester's grade.
  • The four of us made a circle on the hard exam room tiles.
    Myra Sack, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2022
  • The staff will leash the pet and transport them to the exam station.
    Beacon-News Staff, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Spring gave way to the end of the semester and exams and all that.
    Hilton Als, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • The room was dark except for the small and bright exam room light.
    Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022
  • Very few people take the exam and very few of them pass it.
    Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
  • These are the sections used to measure your score on the exam.
    Bestreviews, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2025
  • These are the sections used to measure your score on the exam.
    Bestreviews, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Tools of the trade for jump-rope exam prep: rope, stopwatch.
    Jonathan Cheng, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Get your hands off women’s bodies and out of the exam room.
    Sarah Varney, NBC News, 22 July 2023
  • The cost of the exam will also go down, Godwin told CNN in an email.
    Nic F. Anderson, CNN, 16 July 2024
  • The exam revealed a Grade 1 strain, the least-serious strain on the scale.
    David O'Brien, New York Times, 31 July 2025
  • Mary had the patient cleaned up and sitting on the edge of an exam table.
    Andrew Weil, Harper's Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The tool has passed exams from law and business schools – and been used to help some students cheat.
    Jennifer Korn, CNN, 15 May 2023
  • The two were part of a group of study partners who grew close at school and then prepared for the bar exam as a team.
    Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Nov. 2023
  • His wife, Carson, was in the middle of taking the bar exam.
    Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 31 July 2024
  • The man needed an EKG, the doctor told him, and led him to an exam table.
    New York Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Along with new exam rooms, the centers will need supplies and plumbing to equip the rooms.
    Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2021
  • On exam, her heart was racing and her arms and legs were weak and tender.
    New York Times, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Math and reading scores for the exam are now at their lowest levels since the 1990s.
    Ben Chapman, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022
  • In this exam, your doctor will give you eye drops to numb the eye, and then place a special contact lens on the top of the eye.
    Amy Marturana Winderl, Health.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • See a dentist for an exam to learn if your teeth show any signs of grinding.
    Carrie Madormo, Rn, Mph, Verywell Health, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The average score for Black students on the exam was 80, up two points from the year prior.
    Maura Turcotte, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
  • All that was left was to pass a medical exam and to head to Pan Am training school.
    Philip Keith For Cnn, CNN, 18 Aug. 2022
  • But white test-takers passed the exam at far higher rates than ...
    Alexander Hughes, National Review, 21 July 2023
  • My last exam was at 9 a.m., my audition was at noon and at 3 p.m. I was hired.
    Marc Myers, WSJ, 10 May 2022
  • The exam is administered in the spring but students can retest in the summer.
    Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The woman had found the 6-week-old dog alone in a field and brought the little canine to the vet hospital for an exam.
    Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Booker stood for witness testimony the first day of the exam, watched the hearing via video from a holding cell on the second and third days of the exam.
    Christina Hall, Freep.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The next step before working with clients is studying for the social work licensing exam.
    Kara Mendelsohn, Flow Space, 13 Aug. 2025

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