How to Use classmate in a Sentence

classmate

noun
  • Students can interact with teachers and classmates in real time.
    Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Months before her arrest, classmates noticed the strange relationship between their teacher and the boy.
    Lauren De Young, The Arizona Republic, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Per the date announcement video, season 2 will introduce more love triangles, new roommates for Kitty and new classmates.
    Julia Moore, People.com, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Her classmate, 18-year-old psychology sophomore Gracie Manushi, agreed.
    Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 16 Sep. 2022
  • So Rusczyk and a competition-loving classmate, Sandor Lehoczky, set out to write the book their 13-year-old selves would have devoured.
    Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Trying to improve his self-image, Evan writes himself a letter that is mistaken for a classmate's suicide note and rides that error to popularity.
    Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The story of this visit is intercut with Jacob’s summoning up the memory of visiting a college classmate, Stu, and getting high.
    Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Jacob’s classmate Stu, a kicker on the football team, is described as beautiful, and the reader is instantly aware of the erotic tension that exists for Jacob.
    Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The school work, the grades, the parties classmates will have, the play dates.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2024
  • 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 shooting claimed the lives of 12 of her classmates and her teacher.
    Anna Schecter, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Next to me, a classmate takes aim at a Black man in overalls.
    Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 3 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • Played by Dylan Baker, Bill drugs and rapes two of his son’s classmates and, by the end of the film, goes to jail.
    Elena Saavedra Buckley, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2024
  • During that school year, for the first time in my life, I was called the N-word by the younger brother of one of my classmates.
    Pia Jordan, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2024
  • In a video, 4-year-old Mark sits across from his classmate, a little girl named Charleigh.
    Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Kids may be nervous about seeing some of their classmates for the first time in months.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 12 Aug. 2024
  • In the blink of an eye, Kim wrecks the car, her life and almost kills a classmate in a head-on collision.
    Josie Howell | , al, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Justin Long also appears as one of the group's classmates.
    Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 22 Jan. 2024
  • There goes most of Kate's classmates, sucked up and spat out into the next county.
    Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 10 July 2024
  • He was bullied by classmates who hurled gay slurs at him.
    John Blake, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Helping students catch up to the rest of their classmates during the summer is one thing.
    oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Jones, whose wife had been a classmate of Coffin, sold him the building and loaned him $150 worth of drugs to get started.
    Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • The two returned to school without lunch and told their teachers and classmates about the damage.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 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

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