colleague

Example Sentences

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“Hi, honey, are you Cuban?” asked her colleague.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

He shared the idea with his colleague Mitchell Riegler, another doctoral student at the museum.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

“He’s been dead for two centuries,” she tells a colleague, “but he’s making me want to stand up and sing ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.’”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

The motion, due to be debated on Thursday, calls for Carragher's immediate resignation alongside that of her colleague Fiona Fotheringham.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

Once when told that Rutherford was about to make a radio broadcast across the Atlantic, a colleague drily asked: "Why use radio?"

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson