ACADEMIC in a Sentence

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For ACADEMIC, below is one of 49 sentences:
There were plenty of books and magazines scattered around, but none seemed to relate to any academic studies she could identify.

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 Meanings and Examples of ACADEMIC
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
academic
 a.  related to school; not practical or directly useful; relating to scholarly organization
Classic Sentence:
1  When the difficulty of learning the English language was subtracted, I found that in the matter of learning trades and in mastering academic studies there was little difference between the coloured and Indian students.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI.
2  It was further required that they must work for ten hours during the day at some trade or industry, and study academic branches for two hours during the evening.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIII.
3  After the student has left the night-school he enters the day-school, where he takes academic branches four days in a week, and works at his trade two days.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIII.
4  As a rule, after a student has succeeded in going through the night-school test, he finds a way to finish the regular course in industrial and academic training.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIII.
5  In fact, the industrial work is now as popular as the academic branches.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIII.
6  Those delivered before the coloured people had for their main object the impressing upon them the importance of industrial and technical education in addition to academic and religious training.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIII.
7  There are in constant operation at the school, in connection with thorough academic and religious training, thirty industrial departments.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII.
8  Doubtless Albert was about to discuss seriously his right to the academic chair when they were informed that dinner was ready.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 36. The Carnival at Rome.
9  Having obtained from this clerk a direction to the academic grove in question, I set out, the same afternoon, to visit my old schoolfellow.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27. TOMMY TRADDLES
10  TWO YEARS AFTER I left Lincoln, I completed my academic course at Harvard.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I
11  I felt that I was wasting my time in the academic examination of machinery.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VIII
12  He is not very academic by nature.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
16  The University of Birmingham will be the first academic institution in Britain to offer a degree course in golf.
17  The students ought not to be compelled to go back of academic titles to find out what they mean.
18  A good historian must have an academic mind.
19  Working together, the staff developed numerous ways to use the neighborhood around the school to teach academic skills.
20  The change is part of the government's policy of phasing in Arabic as the official academic language.
21  Their writings took powerful hold of academic circles.
22  Professor Greenan has a high standing in the academic world.
23  The enrolment criteria are geographical rather than academic.
24  There were plenty of books and magazines scattered around, but none seemed to relate to any academic studies she could identify.
25  The students return in October for the start of the new academic year.
26  Now the examination score serves as the only criterion for a student's academic performance.
27  A Seminar is, generally, a form of academic instruction, either at a university or offered by a commercial or professional organization.
28  The dean's talk about reforming the college admissions system was only an academic discussion.
29  A unique post secondary educational opportunity that blends academic ornamental horticulture studies and practical training at this school.
30  In his job application, Milton might misrepresent his academic background; he was fired when his employers discovered the truth.