How to Use grader in a Sentence

grader

noun
  • Her students say that she's a tough grader.
  • Most of the victims were fourth graders from the same class.
    Marcela Rodrigues, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
  • In 2021, an eighth grader at Johnson was shot and killed steps from the school.
    Lizzie Johnson, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
  • The thing is, Orion doesn’t sound like a fifth grader at all.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 1 Feb. 2024
  • When the group refused to stop, one of the robbers opened fire, striking the fourth grader in the head.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Siegel made her first 3-pointer for the Tigers as an eighth-grader.
    Dennis Victory, al, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The magic of being a middle grader doesn’t come across the same way.
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
  • There's plenty to jump up and down about for the rising first grader.
    Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Last year, more than 5,100 sixth graders took honors math.
    Talia Richman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The first arrivals: a fifth grader named Ryan Suseno and his parents.
    Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Just 13% of eighth graders scored at or above the proficient level.
    Cheyenne Mumphrey, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2023
  • The eighth graders who did poorly on the history and civics tests are already in high school.
    Joel Mathis, The Week, 5 May 2023
  • While third, sixth and seventh graders slid on the test, fourth, fifth and eleventh graders improved slightly.
    Detroit Free Press, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The three tenth graders decide to head over to Candyland Arcade around the corner.
    Alex Mar, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Parker started the year reading at the level of a first grader.
    Heather Hollingsworth, Fortune, 10 June 2023
  • Third graders who attended full-day preschool showed more gains than those who went part-time.
    Elisa Cinelli, Parents, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Riley, then a fourth grader, had learned at school about people who don’t have enough food to eat.
    Susan Shain, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Just a quarter of third graders were meeting benchmarks.
    Sarah Mervosh, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Watch the video to see this second grader dance his heart out at his Christmas concert.
    Seth Carnell, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Then, another third-grader went to look inside the stall, Jones said.
    Praveena Somasundaram, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The gun used in the shooting had been legally purchased by the child's mother and brought to the school by the first-grader in a backpack, police said.
    Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The group moved to the 17th Street bridge nearby, where shots were fired moments later at about 8 p.m. Zyion, a seventh grader, died at the scene.
    Alexis Stevens, ajc, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Christian Driver, then an eighth grader, wondered how to get his peers out on the dance floor.
    Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2023
  • His father worked on the construction of the All-American Canal in the 1930s, using a mule team to pull a grader.
    Ian Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2023
  • When Burton was a sixth grader, Rhodes watched Burton at Penn’s camps.
    The Indianapolis Star, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The district is in the final stages of choosing new textbook series for 6th through 12th graders, which will roll out districtwide in the fall.
    oregonlive, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Andrea Hogg, the parent of an eighth grader in the district, asked the school board about their new initiatives.
    Beatrice Peterson, ABC News, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The percentage of white sixth graders in honors math has also gone up, to roughly 82%.
    Talia Richman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Think about what a two-year deficit means for a rising fifth-grader who will enter middle school this fall.
    Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Her four younger sisters range from a third grader to a sophomore at Oswego.
    Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2023

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'grader.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: