How to Use semester in a Sentence

semester

noun

• But one of the best parts of the first semester is prepping for homecoming, aka the first big bash of the school year.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 24 May 2023
• Nesbitt has been the interim dean since the end of the spring semester.
  — The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 16 Aug. 2023
• The field trip is a source of insight that carries through the entire semester.
  — David Yamane, The Conversation, 26 June 2023
• Dickie primed me for Mr. Ripley at the end of that semester.
  — Hazlitt, 28 Feb. 2024
• Spending some time those first few weeks of fall semester is a great idea, says Page.
  — Sara Gaynes Levy, Peoplemag, 26 July 2023
• The quiz, a softball at the start of the fall semester, asked students to subtract eight from negative six.
  — Collin Binkley, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 2023
• From the big football game and fun homecoming floats to the dance, homecoming is one of the most special nights of the fall semester.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 18 May 2023
• News of the tour, first reported by ABC News, comes as students return to school for the fall semester.
  — Rachel Scott, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2023
• Revel said Jaylin earned a rare C in gym his final semester, keeping him off the honor roll for the first time in years.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
• School staff had to administer naloxone 18 times over the course of a school year, and five students died over the course of about one semester.
  — Rae Ellen Bichell, CNN, 29 Feb. 2024
• Her tenure runs through the fall semester of 2023, with options to renew.
  — Virginia Aabram, Washington Examiner, 1 Mar. 2023
• At Fordham, the students formed three teams, and each worked with a defendant on a video during the spring semester.
  — Karen Zraick, New York Times, 23 June 2023
• Working your brown-and-gold gut into an ulcer at this point is akin to grading a class during the first week of the semester.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2023
• For some schools, the application window for the fall semester has long closed.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2023
• And yet, Galihadd dropped out of college after two semesters.
  — Alice Li, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
• Any of these options are perfect for starting a new school semester, and the teacher will surely get tons of use out of it.
  — Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 9 Nov. 2023
• If that’s the case, Finley—who graduates at the end of this semester—will sit down with Freeze to discuss his own future.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 9 Apr. 2023
• That’s something which gets taught at the end of a standard — end of a second semester calculus course.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
• Next year’s outlook is tough to tell; AL.com could only find one college that has announced rates for the fall 2023 semester.
  — Rebecca Griesbach | , al, 24 Mar. 2023
• Midway through the semester, Natasha announced that her favorite class was shop.
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• At the end of the semester, her teacher urged her to contact legislators.
  — Fortesa Latifi, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
• New blood Whether through the transfer portal or signing recruits from the high school ranks, UCF added a number of new pieces to its roster ahead of the spring semester.
  — Jason Beede, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
• That is until Correa — all jaunty, rules-be-damned enthusiasm — sweeps in at the start of the fall semester to teach sixth grade.
  — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• The teams plan to work on the designs through the spring semester before choosing one to submit to the university for approval this summer.
  — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 15 Feb. 2024
• Demolition is set to begin Dec. 28, as the school's fall semester ends.
  — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 14 Dec. 2023
• Much like your friend who studied abroad that one semester, Selena Gomez says that spending the past two months in Paris has been life-changing.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 23 June 2023
• Low-stakes squabbles soon escalate, leading to a shocking end of the semester.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024
• It should be pointed out that a second wave of transfers will take place next month when the spring semester ends, so either the top teams will get even stronger or others will move up.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• There are 5,000 free tickets set aside for students, who return to campus on Monday for the beginning of the fall semester.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
• The setback would have meant spending at least one extra semester catching up on math at George Mason.
  — Collin Binkley, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024