How to Use professor in a Sentence

professor

noun

• Professor Williams will be teaching the class.
• Many of them could not get a job as a professor or a teacher.
  — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2024
• In 1998, Koogler moved to Chicago to take a job at the U. of C. as a clinician and professor.
  — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2023
• But the professor was a Joyce specialist and had his own ideas about how Ulysses should be taught.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2022
• Gopnik is a physics professor who finds his life fraying at the seams.
  — Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024
• Known throughout the world, Powell won awards both as an artist and professor.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 24 Jan. 2023
• The rugby coach was a professor at BYU and helped with the graduate program.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Dec. 2022
• As a professor of law, my job is to understand the nuance of the U.S. legal system.
  — Peter A. Joy, The Conversation, 19 Jan. 2023
• He was born in Madrid in 1964, the son of a Spanish literature professor.
  — cincinnati.com, 10 May 2023
• Eleanor Stein is a college professor who protested in the Vietnam War as a student in 1968.
  — Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 26 Apr. 2024
• But for the past six years, Ms. Yu has been the lone Cantonese professor, teaching only three classes per year.
  — Terry Tang, Haven Daley, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2022
• After the bot determined that the whole class had done so, the professor threatened to fail everyone.
  — Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2023
• As the frenzied crowd chanted and four teenage girls shattered the professor’s skull with their belts, a visible chill came over her.
  — Alexander Woo, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2024
• An old professor named Frances came through the front door with a plate of pfeffernüsse, led by her son, who took Seroquel and couldn’t hold down a job.
  — Matthew Klam, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
• At the age of eight, he was let loose in the library of his late father, a professor of moral philosophy, and a part of Leibniz never left.
  — Anthony Gottlieb, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
• But Kim, the professor, said the missile appeared to be an improved version of the Hwasong-12 with a faraway target like Alaska or Hawaii.
  — Time, 10 Oct. 2022
• The professors say that these bets were unusual given the context of Israel’s economy at the time.
  — Marley Jay, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2023
• Through his work as a lawyer and professor, Ogletree’s legacy reached beyond the school’s Cambridge classrooms.
  — Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2023
• After which, what could Musk’s teachers and future professors teach him?
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Plays as Kimberly leaves her professor's office and the end credits begin to play.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 17 Nov. 2022
• Run that speech past any history professor today in a college where the president and trustees have STEM fever.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2023
• This Week Also interesting was the order in which the professors listed the experts.
  — Kim Elsesser, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• After three years as a professor, Dr. Conerly found his calling in the business world.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
• West is a renowned Black scholar, author, and former professor at Yale, Princeton, and Harvard.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 8 June 2023
• That’s what happened to O’Connor, the Carnegie Mellon professor, earlier in her career.
  — Byirina Ivanova, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2023
• Among the fallouts from the crisis professor Gomes foresees is a sharp decline in the value of the dollar as interest rates spiral higher.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2024
• The codes dictate what the land's owner can and can't do on the land, said Tom Daniels, a professor of urban planning at the University of Pennsylvania.
  — Claire Thornton, The Enquirer, 12 June 2024
• LAist The rise of AI has raised many a college professor’s heart rate as some universities move to ban the technology outright.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
• Rollins also says Arroyo needs the professor to release his letter.
  — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
• Benjamin Laker is a university professor who’s been writing about leadership and strategy on Forbes since early 2020.
  — Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Jan 2025