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How to use classmate in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Classmate means a student who is in the same class at school. Example: “Danny and I have been classmates for five years, but I've never spoken to him outside of lessons.”

Examples of classmate by meaning

nounA student who is in the same class at school.

  • Danny and I have been classmates for five years, but I've never spoken to him outside of lessons.
  • She was your classmate at the village school from first grade.2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Faber & Faber (2020), page 353

More sentences with classmate

  • He's a year older than his classmates, because he was held back in second grade.From the entry hold back
  • With her black clothes and dyed hair, Melanie looked very goth compared to her classmates.From the entry goth
  • She was a bright and industrious student, smarter than many of her classmates, leastaways.From the entry leastaways
  • Groups of businessmen, housewives, classmates or neighbors may engage in hadaka no tsukiai.From the entry hadaka no tsukiai
  • Her classmates are gradually warming to her.From the entry warm
  • My children often get upset with their classmates.From the entry upset
  • The class clown stuck her tongue out at her classmate.From the entry stick one's tongue out
  • He stands out against his classmates.From the entry against
  • I’M GONNA FART—sneered as he shoved past her to join their classmates.2021, Shannon Messenger, chapter 1, in Keeper of Lost Cities, page 7. From the entry -o-saurus
  • One classmate offered up "part" and "trap" as a levidrome on Friday.2017 October 15, Jack Knox, “This Budd’s for you, and he loves a ‘levidrome’”, in Times Colonist, retrieved 28 Jan 2018. From the entry levidrome
  • Might it be awesome to see my classmates' expressions as I strut out sporting a banana hammock?2010, Josh Berk, The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin, Knopf, published 2010, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry banana hammock
  • What about an omega, do you have any omega male or omega female amongst your classmates?2010, Jose A. Fadul, Ronan S. Estoque, A Workbook for an Introductory Course in Sociology, page 33. From the entry omega female
  • And what are those?” “Hover-bikes.” “Where do kids like you get hover-bikes, selling weed to classmates, huh?2004 October 30, Jackson Publick & Doc Hammer, “Return to Spider-Skull Island” (13:17 from the start), in The Venture Bros., season 1…. From the entry hoverbike
  • Classmates naturally turn to look at the backbencher, who must acknowledge his presence, with some embarrassment.1978, Ralph Canada, Charles Cheatham, Tony Licata, Surviving the first year of law school, page 37. From the entry backbencher
  • Bridesmaids were Miss Laureline Barry, another classmate, and Miss Joan Stadelmann, sister of the groom.1961 August 5, “Miss Varhol Bride Today at St. John’s”, in The Bayonne Times, volume XCI, number 182, Bayonne, N.J., →OCLC, page 5, column 8. From the entry Laureline
  • He and one of his classmates returned to Mr.2024 July 5, Mervyn Coetzee, Sivakumar Sivasubramaniam, Trauma, Injustice and Identity: Investigating an Egalitarian and Autoethnographic…. From the entry matriculate
  • Sometimes classmates and coworkers would cozy up to me because they wanted my help with their classwork or writing.2022, Devon Price, chapter 7, in Michele Eniclerico, editor, Unmasking Autism, New York: Harmony Books, →ISBN, page 204. From the entry neg
  • A few people from Star Club left nice comments, and a few classmates wrote “so sorry to hear” messages.2019, Ria Voros, chapter 27, in The Center of the Universe, Toronto, Ont.: KCP Loft, published 2024, →ISBN, page 142. From the entry interrobang
  • The Gray Man does not stand out negatively amongst the instructors, but receives good peer evaluations from his classmates.2017, "How Special Ops Instructors View Candidates", Military, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Stew Smith, archived at Wayback…. From the entry gray man
  • Her classmates quickly started introducing her as “Bethany, from Sheboygan.”2017 October 3, Leah Ulatowski, “Funny girl: Sheboygan filmmaker graduates with first class of the Harold Ramis Film School”, in Sheboygan…. From the entry Sheboyganite
  • IMPD recruits Matthew Carroll, right, and John Calhoun, along with their other classmates take the oath of IMPD officer.2016 April 23, “IMPD 11th Recruit Class sworn in as Officers”, in IndyStar, archived from the original on 19 Dec 2025. From the entry carroll
  • My classmates thought I was eating carpet.2011, Hyperink Writers, My Tiger Mom & Me. From the entry rousong
  • On the other hand, schools have seen the very real and devastating effects of classmates wielding words like weapons.2011 September 15, Lisa Belkin, “Preschoolers, Name Calling and the Authorities”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry name calling
  • Apparently the e-vite I had sent to fifty classmates last night was forwarded to another two hundred by morning.2008, Diana Rodriguez Wallach, Amigas and School Scandals, page 125. From the entry e-vite
  • I want to go back to see my online date in London or find a former classmate to get married.2006, Annie Wang, “Too Far Ahead of Her Time”, in The People’s Republic of Desire, New York, N.Y.: Harper, →ISBN, pages 432–433. From the entry online date
  • Come see me “whip” your classmates into shape!1991 October 23, “Personals”, in The Strobe, volume XX, number 4, Fitchburg, Mass.: Fitchburg State College, →OCLC, page 7, column 1. From the entry dungeon mistress
  • His classmates called him "Gloomy Gus." He lived frugally, studied endlessly and never walked away from a classroom confrontation.1990, “Nixon”, in PBS. From the entry Gloomy Gus
  • Two Andover classmates, Al Wilson and Al Lindley, both went out for crew in our freshman year at Yale.1989, Benjamin Spock, Mary Morgan, Spock on Spock, →ISBN, page 71. From the entry crew
  • We were moved up a grade because our teachers thought we country children would make our classmates feel inferior―and we did.1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 10, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Random House, page 61. From the entry move up
  • William from Canada said, "My Chinese classmates often tell me to 'Good good study, day day up' (study hard and make progress every day).2024 May 22, Ruanni Tupas, Investigating Unequal Englishes: Understanding, Researching and Analysing Inequalities of the Englishes of the…. From the entry good good study, day day up
  • No worries.” From what I’d heard, my classmates would often party up together after class to grind levels for the big quest.2022, Hayaken, translated by Benjamin Daughety, “Akira Is… Akira?”, in Redefining the META at VRMMO Academy, volume 1, [San Antonio…. From the entry powerlevel
  • As soon as she graduated, Anwar Sadat dragged her and the classmate said to be responsible to a penghulu, who could officiate at the wedding.2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 17. From the entry penghulu
  • More often than not, they employed this term when referencing various teen dramas that occurred between friends and classmates that required insider knowledge to decode.2014, danah boyd, It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (page 69). From the entry subtweet
  • Soon after high school student Takayuki Narumi falls for his classmate Haruka Suzumiya, she goes into a coma after a car accident.2010, Brian Ashcroft, Shoko Ueda, Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential: How Teenage Girls Made a Nation Cool, page 154. From the entry nakige
  • Youqing wasn’t upset because I had hit him, but because I had made a scene in front of so many of his teachers and classmates.2003, Michael Berry, transl., To Live, New York: Knopf Doubleday, translation of 活着 [Huózhe] by Yu Hua, page 125. From the entry make a scene
  • My classmates tended to overload their writing with them (all-time record: six in one paragraph) and they stuck out like violins in a rock tune.2001, Gabrielle Bauer, Waltzing the Tango: Confessions of an Out-of-step Boomer, page 210. From the entry cuppa
  • Students should not refrain from considering nonlegal employment if they think they might like it just because a majority of their classmates choose law careers.2001, Gary A. Munneke, Opportunities in Law Careers, McGraw-Hill, page 51. From the entry nonlegal
  • Children who chewed xylitol-sweetened gum three times a day for two years developed fewer dental cavities than did their classmates who chewed nonxylitol gum.1990, Eleanor Noss Whitney, Eva May Nunnelley Hamilton, Sharon Rady Rolfes, Understanding nutrition. From the entry nonxylitol

Meaning of classmate

  1. noun A student who is in the same class at school.
  2. noun A member of a different sort of class, such as locomotives etc.

Full definition of classmate

Questions about classmate in a sentence

How do you use classmate in a sentence?
Classmate is used as a noun. For example: “Danny and I have been classmates for five years, but I've never spoken to him outside of lessons.”
What is a short sentence with classmate?
“He stands out against his classmates.”
What does classmate mean?
Classmate means a student who is in the same class at school.

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