Example sentences for: professorial

How can you use “professorial” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I have tested my professorial friend's observation in a number of real and imagined situations involving several ethnic or national categories and have found it to be correct.

  • He commented: “I learned that it (Wilson's professorial chair) was at Saskatoon, a place of which I had never heard, and that his university was that of Saskatchewan, which was connected in my imagination with ochred and feathered Indians rather than with a university apparently half a century ahead of Cambridge in science and of Oxford in common sense.”

  • After centuries of social and cultural direction from the guild's leaders (the professorial elite, the academic, scientific, and medical establishments), it is hardly possible for anyone in the Western or Westernizing world today to be reckoned (or to feel) educated without having been to school—and the more school the better.

  • The WP notes instead that Starr seemed more professorial than prosecutorial.

  • He writes a twice-weekly column that appears in nearly 500 newspapers and a biweekly column for Newsweek . He also appears every Sunday morning on ABC's This Week . His pinched, professorial face may be the most recognizable mug in journalism.


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