professorial
Example Sentences
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De la Fuente, soft-spoken and professorial, is also scrupulously polite, an example many of his players follow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Despite his professorial air, however, he dished up practical advice rather than academic musing, the magazine said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
"I don't think he would ever call himself Dr. Seuss had it not been for being at Oxford and having the literary and professorial aspirations when he was there."
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026
Under the accident-prone and professorial Ishiba, disastrous elections left the LDP short of a majority in both houses of parliament.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
They were antique steel full moons, and when he put them on he invariably underwent a quiet transformation, becoming suddenly professorial, handsome in the way that some outdoorsmen are yet scholarly at the same time.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
