professorial
Example Sentences
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As Puck’s Leigh Ann Caldwell recently observed, he is seen as quiet and studious in the Senate, someone who rarely attends Washington social functions, who is professorial by nature.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
"I don't think he would ever call himself Dr. Seuss had it not been for being at Oxford and having the literary and professorial aspirations when he was there."
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026
Under the accident-prone and professorial Ishiba, disastrous elections left the LDP short of a majority in both houses of parliament.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
They might even use it to grade essays and provide feedback, zipping through their professorial duties in a fraction of the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
They were antique steel full moons, and when he put them on he invariably underwent a quiet transformation, becoming suddenly professorial, handsome in the way that some outdoorsmen are yet scholarly at the same time.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
