freshman

Example Sentences

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He dropped out of Harvard after his freshman year, enrolled at MIT and dropped out in 2010 after a few months to become the fourth employee at a payments-processing firm called /dev/payments, later renamed Stripe.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

Hunter clocked 46.32 to set a California freshman record last spring, but lost to Yohannes by 11 hundredths of a second at the Masters Meet.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2026

When Yang, 35, and Rogers, 36, met their freshman year on New York University’s sketch comedy scene, Yang was a premed student.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Cervantes, meanwhile, has heated up as he grows comfortable as a freshman, making waves for his start against Oregon in UCLA’s Big Ten championship win on Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

Her sister had lost control of the situation the moment she’d fallen for a college freshman.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny