semester
Example Sentences
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After finishing the fall semester of his sophomore year, Bior returned to Uganda for winter break.
Inara George looks back on it now as wistfully as someone remembering a love affair or a semester abroad.
From Los Angeles Times
He glanced out the bright windows, then boomed, “Even the sunshine is somber today, brothers and sisters, when we see Miss Myrt Arbuckle on her final journey, as she swaps semesters for eternity.”
From Literature
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Fourth-year student McKenna Steinbeck had moments of regret in her first semester.
By the end of her first semester, Ms. Blume finished what would, in 1969, become her first published book: “The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.