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
  • 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
  • Wronski has continued to serve as an adjunct professor for the law and MBA programs.
    Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 3 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Law professor and domestic violence center director Jane K. Stoever deals with the repercussions of domestic abuse client by client.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 6 Dec. 2024

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