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.

From The Wall Street Journal

“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