How to Use exam in a Sentence

exam

noun
  • Your final exam will count for half of the semester's grade.
  • Get your hands off women’s bodies and out of the exam room.
    Sarah Varney, NBC News, 22 July 2023
  • The cost of the exam will also go down, Godwin told CNN in an email.
    Nic F. Anderson, CNN, 16 July 2024
  • Mary had the patient cleaned up and sitting on the edge of an exam table.
    Andrew Weil, Harper's Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The tool has passed exams from law and business schools – and been used to help some students cheat.
    Jennifer Korn, CNN, 15 May 2023
  • The two were part of a group of study partners who grew close at school and then prepared for the bar exam as a team.
    Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Nov. 2023
  • His wife, Carson, was in the middle of taking the bar exam.
    Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 31 July 2024
  • The average score for Black students on the exam was 80, up two points from the year prior.
    Maura Turcotte, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
  • But white test-takers passed the exam at far higher rates than ...
    Alexander Hughes, National Review, 21 July 2023
  • The exam is administered in the spring but students can retest in the summer.
    Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Veterinary staff conduct health exams on the pups and they are trucked to a staging area close to the wild den.
    Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2024
  • Even the rectal exam has been a cause for many men to avoid prostate cancer screening.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Brown heard about it and decided to take the entrance exam.
    John Blake, CNN, 25 Nov. 2022
  • In other words, if there are no skin issues, Medicare won’t pay for the exam.
    Diane Omdahl, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The university had the results of the exam of LeMaster’s brain.
    Krista Stevens, Longreads, 12 Sep. 2024
  • In 2014, Scott spent six months studying for the Virginia bar exam, passing on his first try.
    Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The dog was sent to a veterinarian for a wellness exam and was found to be in good health.
    Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 8 May 2023
  • Chatbots have taken advanced tests, like the bar exam, and scored well.
    CBS News, 25 Mar. 2023
  • After passing the exam, the person must schedule a road test.
    Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Even took the Foreign Service exam that summer and went pretty far in it.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2023
  • That would be Week 1 of the regular season, the final exam for training camp.
    Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
  • In math, the results showed the steepest declines ever recorded on the exam, which tests a broad sampling of fourth and eighth graders.
    Jonathan Wolfe, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2022
  • There’s a long, detailed set of requirements that must be met in order to take that exam of all exams: the check ride.
    Sarah Schutte, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Students will take the digital exam on Bluebook, an app that was built in-house by the College Board.
    Elissa Nadworny, NPR, 5 Mar. 2024
  • While most GPs can perform basic skin exams during a checkup, Dr. Markowitz has seen the rare case where a melanoma was missed.
    Beth Sobol, Allure, 29 Nov. 2023
  • After feeding the dog a few more bowls of food and gaining the pup's trust, Flint took the canine to a local vet to get an exam and to check for a microchip.
    Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The doctor decided to give up on getting an approval for the catheter exam.
    T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Students had their minds on exams, Valentine’s Day, Spring Break.
    Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Levine said some teachers were hired without passing certification exams but had to pass them within a year or two.
    Ray Sanchez, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
  • The scheme involved a teacher impersonator taking the exam in front of a corrupt testing proctor, according to Ogg.
    Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024

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