classmate

Example Sentences

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He attended Princeton, but when a classmate was killed in Vietnam in 1967, he joined the Marines.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

It was those drawings that caught the eye of Geisel's classmate, and fellow American, Helen Palmer.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

The show follows three childhood friends whose very different lives converge at a wake for a former classmate in rural Ireland.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

"It's simply so cold and no one wants to work," classmate Kai added.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

At his high school graduation a year earlier, a classmate, a son of Emco’s owner, had approached him with a vague job offer.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz