How to Use colleague in a Sentence

colleague

noun

• A colleague of mine will be speaking at the conference.
• How about the colleague who sits next to you at the office?
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 22 Oct. 2022
• Here are more tips on how to be a good friend or colleague.
  — Vanessa Fuhrmans, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2022
• Then, just a month and a half after the launch, Kane and three of her colleagues were fired.
  — Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 22 Feb. 2025
• Meanwhile, Khan and his colleagues did not have much to do.
  — Soham Mitra, Lou Robinson and Patrick Gallagher, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025
• And based on the stories that have emerged from friends and colleagues, that seems to have been true of Perry himself.
  — Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
• Dad worked long hours and sometimes brought home colleagues.
  — Hazlitt, 7 June 2023
• Recently, one of my colleagues sent me an email with a Fab or Flub idea.
  — Courtney Ortega, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Jan. 2024
• One of them went so far as to disparage a white colleague’s young Black son.
  — Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Oct. 2022
• Joel, who at this point is merely a colleague, follows Sam and checks in on her.
  — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2022
• Conyers saw something and called out for one of his colleagues.
  — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
• This is where the big research gaps are, according to O’Connor and his colleagues.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 9 Feb. 2025
• Some of her colleagues, though, noted that many of the ZIP codes listed are inside cities.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
• With input from Wang’s colleague Zhaohuan Zhu, the group worked around the clock (and in one case during a flight to Europe).
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
• According to the outlet, the women were at the game to celebrate the end of the first week of classes with their colleagues.
  — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2023
• The other was a colleague of sorts in the intimate confines of a small business.
  — Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2022
• Fine doesn’t call her a student, but instead a colleague.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2023
• In this study, Jain and his colleagues analyzed what the heat dome would have looked like without this trend.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2024
• Documents say the colleague checked the guest bedroom a third time and noticed it was once again locked.
  — Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 2 Feb. 2023
• My colleague Leo Schwartz and I teamed up for a new deep dive on the state of crypto venture capital in 2023.
  — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 1 June 2023
• The junior officer took off his coat and shoes and handed his weapon to a colleague.
  — Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Nov. 2024
• One colleague, who goes by the nickname Joker, was quick to praise his workmate.
  — Paul Stremple, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Dec. 2022
• The 2022 election could prove the year of the woman in Massachusetts, my colleague Matt Stout wrote.
  — Stephanie Ebbert, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2022
• That my colleague Robin Kelly has been leading in the Congress.
  — CBS News, 14 May 2023
• Now a high-pressure hosing was the reward for a donation to a colleague’s cause of choice.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• Within days, the official had found a colleague who would play the avatar in a real-world meeting with the Russians.
  — Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2023
• At the time, Schiano was with two colleagues in a rental car, headed for Charlottesville.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
• Blade of Grass will win over your friends, colleagues, and maybe even your foes with its aromatic freshness.
  — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 16 May 2024
• At that point, McConnell turned away from the podium and stood nearby while his colleagues took the microphone.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 26 July 2023
• The left-hander still scored freely but refused to perish prematurely like some of his colleagues.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 10 Mar 2025