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Example sentences for: sophomore
How can you use “sophomore” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
As a sophomore, the 6-foot-1, 160-pound quarterback joined the freshman football team.
In a profile of Glenn Loury ("Glenn Loury's Round Trip"), Paul Krugman writes, "Since The Bell Curve was published, it has become clear that almost everything about it was inexcusably wrong: suspect data, mistakes in statistical procedures that would have flunked a sophomore."
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.”
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.
When I was a sophomore about 45 years ago, I was told by my English professor that "I don't like writing, I like having written" was said by Robert Louis Stevenson.