semester
Example Sentences
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Stein attended UC Berkeley, majoring in political science, but he left about a semester shy of graduating.
From Los Angeles Times
Near the end of his first semester, Toner-Rodgers told some friends he had stumbled on an interesting lead.
“Sometimes school wasn’t the priority it should have been for me. I knew I needed to lock back into it and focus in. I just wanted to end my last semester of college strong.”
From Washington Post
She wanted to earn her spot in the industry, and NYU — along with the affiliated Atlantic Theater Company and the Moscow Art Theatre School, where she spent a semester — helped her get there.
From Washington Post
“I deferred for a semester; I told my friends, ‘Oh, I’m going to do this fun little show downtown for a bit and then I’ll see you all.’
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
