Sentence examples for an academic are from inspiring English sources

The couple, Katherine Zappone, a public policy consultant and a member of the government's Human Rights Commission, and Ann Louise Gilligan, an academic, are Irish citizens who own a house in County Dublin and have lived together for 23 years.

Whereas the men – a vicar-poet, a journalist, an academic – are often pompous and theoretical in their approach to life, the women are instinctively warmer, more grounded and open to forgiveness.

A French MP and an academic are set to defy an attempt by the Anne Frank Fonds to keep control of the copyright on Anne Frank's diary by publishing online texts of the world famous second world war account from one of the Holocaust's most recognisable victims.

The specific ways in which I behave for the sake of being an academic are what one does if one wants to be considered a good academic, at this particular time, in this particular historically embedded culture (carrying out research, tutoring students, giving lectures, and so on).

Two years ago, an academic was jailed for hosting sex parties.

Fuller's experience as an academic was transformative, Green says.

Mr. Kashyap jokingly cautioned his assistants that an academic was in the house.

Hollander, an academic, is decidedly among the anti-romantics and enters the fray with gusto.

The main aim of an academic is to achieve tenure; getting the same job for life.

Atkins, resolutely a practitioner rather than an academic, was unbound by gentlemanly conventions.

The work of an academic is to talk about ideas – in lectures, class discussions, academic conferences and student meetings.