often attributive
Examples of student in a Sentence
a group of college students
She is a student at Georgetown University.
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From the start, many critics worried that school summer vacations would lead students to forget their lessons and waste time in unhealthy idleness.
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Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 23 Mar. 2025
The University of Georgia student who went viral for her smiling mugshot earlier this month has been arrested again.
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Graves said school districts would have to compensate for the potential loss of federal funding, which could only delay the process of getting services to students.
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But in the hours when a kid is in school, he or she should be prohibited from carrying around a portable TV, or what geezers like us would call a boombox, or any number of other things that get in the way of kids focusing on what their teacher and other students are saying and doing.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 22 Mar. 2025
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Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 23 Mar. 2025
The University of Georgia student who went viral for her smiling mugshot earlier this month has been arrested again.
—Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 23 Mar. 2025
Graves said school districts would have to compensate for the potential loss of federal funding, which could only delay the process of getting services to students.
—Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 22 Mar. 2025
But in the hours when a kid is in school, he or she should be prohibited from carrying around a portable TV, or what geezers like us would call a boombox, or any number of other things that get in the way of kids focusing on what their teacher and other students are saying and doing.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 22 Mar. 2025
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“Student.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/student. Accessed 27 Mar. 2025.
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student
noun
stu·dent
ˈst(y)üd-ᵊnt 
chiefly Southern -ənt
1
: scholar sense 1
especially
: one who attends a school or college
2
: one who studies
a student of life
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