freshman

Example Sentences

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As a freshman last season, Green guided Westlake to an 11-1 record with 2,195 yards passing and 31 touchdowns.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

Still, his rise from a freshman at the University of Virginia to a Grand Slam quarter-finalist has been meteoric.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

He dropped out of Harvard after his freshman year, enrolled at MIT and dropped out in 2010 after a few months to become the fourth employee at a payments-processing firm called /dev/payments, later renamed Stripe.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

When Yang, 35, and Rogers, 36, met their freshman year on New York University’s sketch comedy scene, Yang was a premed student.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

I loved the African-American literature class I’d taken my freshman year where we had read fiction to try to understand American history in the nineteenth century.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad