How to Use classmate in a Sentence

classmate

noun
  • The rest of our classmates wouldn’t show up for a week or more, if at all.
    Emily Gogolak, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The classmate paid $15 for the mixture of ginger, aloe and coconut oil.
    Antonio Olivo, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
  • All of this just seemed like so much for a child to be able to play a game of tennis with his classmates.
    Condé Nast, SELF, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Justin Long also appears as one of the group's classmates.
    Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Helping students catch up to the rest of their classmates during the summer is one thing.
    oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2023
  • And of course, Ruby’s gorgeous new classmate turns out to be one of these mermaids.
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
  • Most of her classmates have taken up jobs in the industry.
    Yusuf Khan, WSJ, 1 June 2023
  • Some of her former classmates had been killed, along with neighbors who had been there for her in her time of need.
    Sima Diab, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2023
  • As her classmate gives the go-ahead, 7-year-old Freya Rollinson leads her father and younger brother to a corner.
    Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The pictures were of a high school classmate–magic-hour shots in a mountainside field.
    Megan Angelo, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Plus, the fidgets are on keychains, so your kid and their classmates can hang them from their backpacks.
    Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Books tumble from the shelves, and classmates shudder at her booming tones.
    Karen MacPherson, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
  • The killings left many of their classmates and residents of Moscow reeling with grief and fear.
    Rebecca Boone, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
  • There was Vivian’s face, again, and others from the kibbutz: a high school classmate, a neighbor, a friend’s child.
    Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Notably, like the original, a big fight breaks out in the school when Regina leaks the Burn Book and its contents to her classmates.
    Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2024
  • And if that weren’t enough, her non-tennis friends/classmates also bring drama of their own.
    Ronda Racha Penrice, Essence, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Courtesy of the subject My classmates didn’t watch with horror, but with amusement and smiles.
    William Lee Adams, ELLE, 10 May 2023
  • The school production showed the 4-year-old adorably take the stage with classmates as parents adoringly looked on.
    Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The incident has left his classmates in Rhode Island on edge.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Both had been gone for weeks, prompting questions from classmates.
    Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The admission standards should be high, and your classmates should be high achievers.
    John Rau, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • She wasn’t used to having homework or working with classmates on projects.
    The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
  • Even the stupidest of high schoolers could use it to murder dozens of classmates in seconds.
    Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Kate believes her mother is pushing her to date her classmate, Prince William.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Even so, no one within the school was encouraging my classmates or me to apply to out-of-state colleges.
    Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 1 July 2023
  • In fact, my 9-year-old son was on his daily group Facetime with his friends over their Thanksgiving break when one of his classmates Googled the very same thing.
    Tanay Howard, Parents, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The depth of the loss of these talented and beloved teammates, classmates, and friends is incalculable.
    CBS News, 28 May 2023
  • In the mid-1960s, Wien moved to New York, where he was offered a job at a small investment management firm by a business school classmate.
    Patrick Oster, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The teenager found guilty of shooting classmates at an Arlington high school in 2021 was ordered Monday to spend more than a decade in prison.
    Allie Kelly, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
  • Wang’s family and their lawyer said on social media the boy had long been bullied by the three classmates, who are all under age 14.
    Nectar Gan, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024

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