How to Use scholar in a Sentence

scholar

noun
  • She's a renowned scholar of African-American history.
  • Some scholars have likened the process to a kind of public penance.
    Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The scholar can score one free donut for each A and can get six free donuts at most.
    Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
  • Two of the three most recent scholars to be awarded the Nobel prize joined the cause this time around.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Thanks in part to scholars like Huang, her legacy won’t suffer the same fate.
    Mayukh Sen, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Heather McGhee, a Black scholar on the show, praised Civitello for his desire to change.
    Mark Hertsgaard, TIME, 7 May 2024
  • For scholar athlete of the week, he was asked about his study secrets.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Some of it is aimed at exactly the kind of work that scholars are supposed to do.
    William Deresiewicz, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Here’s the lineup of 2023 films, chosen with the help of Coye Lloyd, guest curator and film scholar.
    The Indianapolis Star, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Bremmer is better known today as the head of the Eurasia Group than as a scholar.
    Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 17 May 2022
  • But the real reason was that the award-winning teacher and scholar, who’d been on ...
    Ilya Shapiro, National Review, 27 May 2022
  • Per usual, Bryant is eloquent throughout, a true scholar of the game.
    Mark Stock, Men's Health, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Still, most scholars agree that the tendency emerged sometime not long after the end of World War II.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 14 Jan. 2025
  • With support from the French embassy, the shop also packs in a busy schedule of top-tier events with authors, scholars, and thinkers.
    Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2024
  • As Frank, the comics scholar, notes, these differences can lead to feelings of alienation.
    Regina Marie Mills, Fortune, 6 June 2023
  • This year’s group of scholars is the largestyet, with more than 10 countries represented.
    Maeve Lawler, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The scholars who signed the New York declaration tried to stay ambiguous on that point.
    Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Over the past 400 years, scholars have found plenty of historic pottery in Australia.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2024
  • Iraq has not made an official comment on the matter since the scholar went missing.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 6 July 2023
  • Cézanne scholar Mary Tompkins Lewis was among a small group of experts invited to see the mural last year.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
  • According to the scholar Maria Tatar, these were folktales shared among adults after hours, while the children were asleep.
    Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Enter Email Sign Up West has a long history of activism as a scholar.
    Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2023
  • Gabrielle Blair is not a legal scholar or an ethicist or pundit.
    Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 20 May 2022
  • Donna is a scholar of classics, with a doctorate in the subject, and an author.
    Julie Tremaine, Peoplemag, 2 Sep. 2023
  • As a mainland Chinese scholar, Xiao was careful not to betray his views about the regime.
    Chang Che, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2024
  • In the end, election law scholars say violence need not derail the outcome.
    Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
  • That is the quintessential way of the Yale gentleman scholar following the Civil Rights Act of the 1960s.
    Douglas Brinkley, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022
  • This is thanks in large part to the efforts of scholar and historian Jacqueline Stewart.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • One scholar compares reading these volumes to reading the proceedings of the U.S. Supreme Court.
    Myriam Renaud, The Conversation, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Adrian Miller, the soul food scholar who eats black-eyed peas on New Year's Day, says since the tradition's origin is not set in stone, neither is the day it's observed.
    Luis Giraldo, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2024

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