How to Use tutor in a Sentence

tutor

1 of 2 noun
  • I got a tutor to help me with my homework.
  • He is a tutor in European history.
  • Bleu learned sign language with the help of a tutor in roughly three weeks—no easy feat.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 6 June 2022
  • Frances and her brother George were both taught by amazing tutors.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2025
  • In other regions, tutors say gigs are few and far between.
    Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
  • But precedent is monarchy’s sternest tutor.
    Rob Shuter, HollywoodReporter, 14 Nov. 2025
  • In regions where the jobs are scant, K12 has told tutors to troll around for clients.
    Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Notably, tutors are paid solely for their sessions.
    Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2026
  • On the Preply platform, the tutor decides how much to charge.
    PC Magazine, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Colin takes on a role as her confidence tutor, which perhaps works a little too well.
    Laura Zornosa, Time, 16 Dec. 2022
  • His family had sent him to study with a private tutor in Padua.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
  • Hurlock said the school agreed to remove his daughter from the classroom and paid for a remote tutor.
    Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 10 Sep. 2022
  • One thing motivating me was my hopeless crush on my bat mitzvah tutor.
    Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The tutor studied Gonzo’s nose, long but not as long as the nose of the Muppet with the same name.
    Martín Espada, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The vetted tutors help with math, language or other homework.
    Hang Nguyen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Macro Buddy was designed to act like a tutor, not an answer machine.
    Shishir Shakya, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Macro Buddy was designed to act like a tutor, not an answer machine.
    Saharnaz Babaei-Balderlou, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
  • How many tutors will be working with what percentage of students now through June?
    Sari Hitchins, Parents, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Four staffers, including a teacher and a tutor, chatted with them about colors and shapes.
    The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The startup helps users learn English through a voice-first AI tutor app.
    Ardian Wibisono, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Seneca was the tutor of Nero, who was Claudius’ successor and his stepson.
    Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • Rates tend to be lower for tutors who live in places with lower costs of living and thus lower average wages.
    PC Magazine, 25 Aug. 2025
  • And dozens of start-ups pitched AI assistants, avatars, coaches, and tutors.
    IEEE Spectrum, 11 Jan. 2024
  • This summer, 12-year-old Tahlynn Carlisle has been seeing a tutor three days a week.
    Meg Oliver, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Or have their kids forgo learning with other children to sit alone with AI tutors?
    Gene Sperling, Time, 1 July 2026
  • Her guiding rule has given her a good life with her teenaged daughter, a job as a philosophy tutor, and a coven of friends.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
  • And, having stayed in touch with his erstwhile tutor over the years, he has been bequeathed her papers and modest library.
    Toby Lichtig, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
  • There’s no cost to sign up, but tutors pay 15%-30% of their income as a site commission.
    Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Students log in through their school district and connect with a tutor even if English was not their first language.
    Tom Vander Ark, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
  • When James needs a tutor, Rose hires Isabel, a young woman who gets great results.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025

tutor

2 of 2 verb
  • She earned extra money tutoring in the evening.
  • Dixon has coached and tutored and fed and housed him.
    Kevin Sherrington, Dallas Morning News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • There are not a lot of requirements to tutor here.
    Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2026
  • In that scenario, the tool starts to tutor you more than give you an answer.
    Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2025
  • Holland brought them home after school and tutored them.
    Charlotte Observer, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Robichaud had agreed to tutor Bounds, then a sophomore, in math.
    Lucy Glynn, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2026
  • The plan was for his aunt, a high school teacher, to tutor him, relatives said.
    Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 27 June 2022
  • My mom signed me up through one of our church programs to help tutor another child who was blind.
    Claire Goodman, Houston Chronicle, 16 Aug. 2020
  • But these are not tutoring gigs or customer service roles.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Now his mission is to take a bunch of young players and mold them, mentor them, train them and tutor them.
    Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 19 May 2021
  • For instance, her daughter had been tutored for years by an engineer turned stay-at-home dad.
    Suzanne Cope, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Whether Lonnie would dissuade his grandson from hustling or tutor him on how to do.
    Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Huggs hired him early on in his tenure, to tutor the likes of Corie Blount.
    Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Forced to tutor students at a school, a young delinquent falls for a minister’s daughter.
    Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Dolan, a teacher, gave up tutoring this summer to attend the trial.
    Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Amy Nichols, who has had autoimmune issues, had tutored Trapp's son.
    Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The team’s coach suggested that Espina tutor them during lunch hours.
    Graciela Mochkofsky, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • By fourth grade, however, her son was so far ahead that teachers often asked him to tutor other students.
    Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2021
  • One of them, Alex, was bilingual, so his job became to tutor me for half an hour every day in French.
    Celina Caesar-Chavannes, refinery29.com, 28 Jan. 2021
  • Maybe Yessenia could start a homework club, tutoring local kids.
    Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Just look at who Harbaugh has tutored during his long and diverse coaching career.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
  • My office hours were more like counseling sessions than tutoring.
    CBS News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Jane spent years, until the very end of her life, tutoring Asian students in English.
    courant.com, 6 Sep. 2019
  • In the book, Kevin is a writer, and he is hired by Tom to tutor Rufus, who had been pulled from school.
    Felecia Wellington Radel, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Bonnie was the kind of honors student professors asked to tutor others.
    Tribune News Service, oregonlive.com, 22 June 2019
  • Much of the money was unspent because not all teachers wanted to tutor along with their classroom duties.
    Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Kian, her roommate and fellow PhD student, offers to tutor her.
    Ali Hazelwood, Washington Post, 26 May 2022
  • Her first year in New Haven, Heidi tutored students on weekends to pay her parents back.
    Nicholas Dawidoff, New Yorker, 10 May 2026
  • Boyle has tutored a steady stream of major college signees and current NBA players.
    Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • As a boy in Texas, Roseberry was tutored in drawing by his mother, Fran, an artist.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2023

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