Example sentences for: sophomore

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

  • Two of the more common examples of British-American divergence of usage are screw and knock up . In Vanity Fair (Chapter 39), the niggardly Sir Pitt was not nearly the aerial acrobat your American sophomore might fancy him to be when he “screwed his tenants by letter.”

  • Ithought we'd settled the fight between free will and predestination with a sophomore reading of Erasmus, but lately, it's popping up all over life's syllabus.

  • "Geoff Ward, goateed sophomore, chides each of the Canterbury Tales, for being written during that Great Vowel Thing and for being 'boring and stupid.

  • "The unholy matrimony of metal and rap celebrates another victory on this superb sophomore effort" (Amy Sciarretto, College Music Journal ). (Click here to buy Significant Other and here to buy Three Dollar Bill, Y'All$ .)

  • Pynchon the verbal technician is genius, but Pynchon the humorist is lame indeed and reminds one of a brainy college sophomore who studies joke books to make himself amusing.


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