freshman

Example Sentences

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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

Week by week, freshman left-handed pitcher Sheriff Hall of Loyola High has gotten better and better.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2026

Hunter clocked 46.32 to set a California freshman record last spring, but lost to Yohannes by 11 hundredths of a second at the Masters Meet.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2026

When I was a freshman we had this big basketball game: the students versus the teachers and parents.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña