classmate
Example Sentences
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But classmate Felix is more relaxed: "You'd get used to it and find other things to do, so I don't think I would really mind."
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
He attended Princeton, but when a classmate was killed in Vietnam in 1967, he joined the Marines.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026
It was those drawings that caught the eye of Geisel's classmate, and fellow American, Helen Palmer.
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026
Marko Dobrasinovic, 24, who made the trek from Chicago to audition, bumped into an old high school classmate, Alyssa Frey, while in line to check in.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026
Gentle, genially dignified, a scholar with work-calloused hands and sunburned neck, he’d been a classmate of Herb’s at Kansas State University.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.