grader

Example Sentences

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His brother is a grader and his son is taking this April’s exam.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Jaime Alvarez, an 11th grader at Thomas Jefferson High School in South Los Angeles, walked out of class in the morning and took the bus downtown with his friends.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

Although Liam has since been released, “We’ve had other students in our building also taken in. We realized a fifth grader was also at the detention center; they had just kind of disappeared.”

From Salon • Mar. 2, 2026

The 43-year-old knows Estonian and helps her daughter with her studies, but the first grader confuses Russian and Estonian letters.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

Now he was a sixth grader, so this should be his year.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville