How to Use classmate in a Sentence

classmate

noun
  • The school work, the grades, the parties classmates will have, the play dates.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Payne’s 16-year-old classmate was charged with the killing.
    — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The rest of our classmates wouldn’t show up for a week or more, if at all.
    — Emily Gogolak, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The former friend and classmate said Ramos sent him the video on Shapchat.
    — Travis Caldwell, CNN, 26 May 2022
  • The shooting claimed the lives of 12 of her classmates and her teacher.
    — Anna Schecter, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The 12-year-old wants to bring back snow days to bring joy to her classmates and beyond.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Next to me, a classmate takes aim at a Black man in overalls.
    — Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The classmate paid $15 for the mixture of ginger, aloe and coconut oil.
    — Antonio Olivo, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
  • All of this just seemed like so much for a child to be able to play a game of tennis with his classmates.
    — Condé Nast, SELF, 24 Aug. 2023
  • On new turf, Li struggles to fit in with his classmates.
    — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The series is based on the true story of the 1997 murder of teen Reena Virk by her classmates.
    — Catherine Santino, People.com, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Played by Dylan Baker, Bill drugs and rapes two of his son’s classmates and, by the end of the film, goes to jail.
    — Elena Saavedra Buckley, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2024
  • One girl smeared herself with a classmate’s blood and played dead.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2022
  • It was determined that the sender was a classmate from school.
    — cleveland, 8 Dec. 2021
  • His quick thinking saved his classmate's life and earned him a new award.
    — Madeline Coggins, Fox News, 7 July 2022
  • During that school year, for the first time in my life, I was called the N-word by the younger brother of one of my classmates.
    — Pia Jordan, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2024
  • In a video, 4-year-old Mark sits across from his classmate, a little girl named Charleigh.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The daughter of an Anaheim High classmate of mine passed away last month.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2021
  • Kids may be nervous about seeing some of their classmates for the first time in months.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 12 Aug. 2024
  • In the blink of an eye, Kim wrecks the car, her life and almost kills a classmate in a head-on collision.
    — Josie Howell | , al, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Justin Long also appears as one of the group's classmates.
    — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 22 Jan. 2024
  • There goes most of Kate's classmates, sucked up and spat out into the next county.
    — Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 10 July 2024
  • Trevon grabbed his new pair of Air Jordans, placed them in a backpack, and brought them to his classmate.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2022
  • He was bullied by classmates who hurled gay slurs at him.
    — John Blake, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
  • McMahan managed to break away and left with a male classmate.
    — David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 1 Feb. 2022
  • She was known to defend a classmate in Uvalde, Tex., from bullies.
    — Jessica Lipscomb, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
  • Helping students catch up to the rest of their classmates during the summer is one thing.
    — oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Jones, whose wife had been a classmate of Coffin, sold him the building and loaned him $150 worth of drugs to get started.
    — Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Levi’s friends and classmates showered him with tributes both online and at a prayer vigil hosted on Loyola High’s campus Sunday night.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2025
  • Berry was 14 when a classmate used an AI app to attach a nude body to an Instagram photo of her face, before circulating it on social media.
    — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 20 May 2025

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