star student
Example Sentences
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He first made his name in L.A. as a gifted pianist and as the star student of the composer Ingolf Dahl at the University of Southern California.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
I bet you she’s the star student wherever she goes.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025
Seven-year-old Delilah, formerly a star student, has become defiant and uninterested in completing her schoolwork.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 2, 2023
Firouz was sent to a Roman Catholic boarding school in Tehran, where he was a star student and a math whiz.
From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2023
I just wanted to go downstairs and demonstrate to my exacting great-aunt what a gifted girl I was, how it would take no effort at all for me to become her star student.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
