Sentence examples for classmate at a from inspiring English sources

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Yesterday a teenage girl wounded a classmate at a parochial school in Pennsylvania.

In the movie, based on a lightly fictionalized novel about the family life of the writer James Jones, Costanzo plays Francis Fortescue, a certainly-seems-to-be-gay teen-ager who befriends Jones's daughter, his classmate at a Parisian high school.

Speaking at her alma mater, Simmons College, the journalist Gwen Ifill flashed back on what she recalled Shirley Chisholm's telling her and her classmate at a commencement decades earlier: "The state of the economy in the past few years has been such that a bachelor's degree might get you a job in a car wash".

Many years later, when I met another classmate at a professional meeting, she exclaimed, "Who would have thought back then that you of all people would make it?" The crowning piece of luck — I am still speaking only of my professional life — was to enter the job market in 1962, when higher education was expanding and everyone I knew had at least three offers at good schools.

You study the kitchen's new colors, cabinets, appliances, and windows, and try to remember where the sink and the dog bowl used to be, and suddenly you realize that the old pantry and the little entryway near the back door are gone, and that the room's axis has been rotated ninety degrees — and then the old linoleum pattern pops into your head like the name of a forgotten classmate at a reunion.

Speaking at her alma mater, Simmons College, the journalist Gwen Ifill flashed back on what she recalled Shirley Chisholm's telling her and her classmate at a commencement decades earlier: "The state of the economy in the past few years has been such that a bachelor's degree might get you a job in a car wash". Of course, Ms. Ifill went on to more than windshields and hubcaps.

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First of all he has invented Donté Drumm, a black football player who was convicted of the 1998 rape and murder of Nicole Yarber, a white cheerleader who was Donté's classmate at an East Texas high school.

They were classmates at a Mormon high school.

A teenager pepper-sprayed her classmates at a school in Harlem, education officials said.

There were three of us, separated from our classmates at a table in the corner of the room.

As were the Nepali drivers, both of Mr. Huang's cabbies were classmates at a Queens taxi-driving school.

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