: a member of the same class in a school or college
Examples of classmate in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebBut Dorothy doesn’t feel at home and is being bullied by her classmates.—Maya Phillips, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2024 Durang’s Yale classmates helped form the nucleus of his professional world.—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024 Early on, for instance, a tearful Bluey tells her classmates about the move(*), and their wise teacher Calypso begins reading a pop-up book about a farmer whose luck seems to constantly shift from good to bad and back again.—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2024 Students are best positioned to identity and report concerning behavior displayed by classmates .—L. M. Boyd, The Arizona Republic, 15 Apr. 2024 Steenburgen had asked one of her former classmates for Ariel’s email address.—Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 14 Apr. 2024 Another classmate, Cadence Byrd, 15, said gun violence in Kansas City schools and across the city has to stop.—Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2024 Schools across the country are racing to keep up with deepfake technology, including situations in which boys create nonconsensual deepfake nude images of their female classmates.—Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024 The law passed in 2023 — about 17 months after Ethan Crumbley, who was 15 at the time, took a 9mm semi-automatic handgun his father had bought him to Oxford High School, killing four classmates and injuring six others and a teacher.—Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2024
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