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.


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