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How to use grader in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun

Grader means a machine used in road maintenance, construction, and mining for leveling large surfaces. Example: “The test grader takes off a point for every misspelled word.”

Examples of grader by meaning

nounA machine used in road maintenance, construction, and mining for leveling large surfaces.

  • The blade-grader is a long steel-framed carriage under which is fixed a steel blade capable of being tilted at various angles: its principal use is in trimming cutting-slopes.1943 September and October, “Railway Construction and Operation at War Department Depots”, in Railway Magazine, page 262

nounOne who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.

  • the graders of a school examination

More sentences with grader

  • The test grader takes off a point for every misspelled word.From the entry take off
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:10th grader.From the entry 10th grader
  • Next time you go out for a hamburger, ask your sixth grader to find the toponyms.2012, Suzanne Barchers, Sixth Grade Parent Guide for Your Child's Success, →ISBN. From the entry toponym
  • Brooklyn first graders write and read their valentines and describe the meaning of Valentines Day.2010 Feb. 12, "First Graders' Valentines" (news video), Time (retrieved 8 Sept 2013). From the entry out of the mouths of babes
  • Many of Zidonis's ninth graders were apparently unable to recognize the malformedness of the sentences they wrote.2004, David Michael Singleton, Lisa Ryan, Language acquisition: the age factor, page 59. From the entry malformedness
  • The weight grader consisted of a fruit singulation unit, load cell, fruit grading unit, and control unit.2003, S. Khuntia, Downsizing Technology for Rural Development, Vol. 1, →ISBN, page 115. From the entry singulation
  • We can disinfect headsets and teach a group of fifth graders how to play library quidditch.2001, Virginia A. Walter, Children & Libraries: Getting It Right. From the entry quidditch
  • Younger children, on the whole believed, and older children emphatically disbelieved (with third graders agnostically in between).1997, Máire Messenger Davies, chapter 5, in Fake, Fact and Fantasy: Children’s Interpretations of Television Reality, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence…. From the entry agnostically
  • There were five people in DT, and we were all seventh graders. ¶ “Hurry up, Mr.1993, Martyn Godfrey, Please Remove Your Elbow from My Ear, New York, NY: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry dt
  • Ho Yun-kang was a first grader at a junior middle school in Liangping County, Szechwan Province.1978 August 8 [1978 July 29], “Education Ministry Praises Youth for Saving Collective Property”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of…. From the entry Liangping
  • We tiptoed backstage in search of our second grader and found Mrs.1946 December 2, Celestine Sibley, “Relentless Approach Of Christmas Things”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LXXIX, number 170…. From the entry unschoolmarmish
  • “I thought fifth graders had homework most schoolnights.”1997, Suzanne Brockmann, Otherwise Engaged, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 151. From the entry schoolnight
  • Using a motor grader to windrow the pulverized reclaimed material.1990, J. A. Epps, Transportation Research Board, NCHRP Synthesis of Highway Practice, ISSN 0547-5570, “Cold-Recycled Bituminous Concrete…. From the entry windrow
  • Another criticism is that the use of proctors may encourage cheating due to the peer relationship between the grader and the gradee.2000, John Austin, James Carr, Handbook of Applied Behavior Analysis. From the entry gradee
  • Spring, and a radio program on music characteristic of fairyland and elvedom inspired second and third graders to compose a poem last week.1931 April 2, “Open House in Laurel Grade: Kindergarten and First Graders Give Exhibition of Handiwork for Parents”, in The Cedar County…. From the entry elvedom
  • Generally, the forest, owing to the flatness of the country, lends itself to ideal subdivision into compartments and cheap firebreaking by horse-drawn graders.1928, The Australian Forestry Journal - Volumes 11-14, page 8. From the entry firebreaking
  • The spunky kindergartener (first grader in more recent volumes) is prone to troublemaking, often calls people names and isn’t averse to talking back to her teachers.2007 July 26, Anna Jane Grossman, “Is Junie B. Jones Talking Trash?”, in New York Times. From the entry troublemaking
  • At Rainbow Park Elementary in Opa-locka, fourth graders tippy-tap in front of a wall of mirrors on a dance floor that would be the envy of most professional studios.2000 July 2, Gail Meadows, “Culture Class”, in The Miami Herald, 97th year, number 292, page 12M. From the entry tippy-tap

Meaning of grader

  1. noun A machine used in road maintenance, construction, and mining for leveling large surfaces.
  2. noun A machine used to sort food by size or quality.
  3. noun One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.

Full definition of grader

Questions about grader in a sentence

How do you use grader in a sentence?
Grader is used as a noun. For example: “The test grader takes off a point for every misspelled word.”
What is a short sentence with grader?
“the graders of a school examination”
What does grader mean?
Grader means a machine used in road maintenance, construction, and mining for leveling large surfaces.

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