freshman

Example Sentences

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The winning run for Harvard-Westlake was driven in by freshman Louis Lappe, hero of El Segundo’s walk-off Little League World Series win.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

Why wait months to release a report that looks as if it were whipped up by a high school freshman an hour before deadline?

From Slate • May 23, 2026

He had 72 at-bats as a freshman in 2019, then appeared in just seven games as a sophomore in 2020 before the pandemic abruptly ended his season.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

I went to New England College in tiny Henniker, N.H., and transferred to B.U. after my freshman year.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

He’d been a senior the year before, when I was a freshman, and every single person in the school had adored him.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez