PUPIL in a Sentence

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Mary would sit and watch me by the hour together: then she would take lessons; and a docile, intelligent, assiduous pupil she made.

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 Meanings and Examples of PUPIL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pupil
 n.  a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution
Classic Sentence: (94 in 7 pages)
1  I think you would if you had Laurie for a pupil.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
2  I take it as a good omen for the future and invite you to my wedding on the spot, answered Mr. Brooke, who felt at peace with all mankind, even his mischievous pupil.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
3  Let them hear how much you have improved, said Laurie, with pardonable pride in his promising pupil.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
4  Of this preparation a tolerably abundant plateful was apportioned to each pupil.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  I remained an inmate of its walls, after its regeneration, for eight years: six as pupil, and two as teacher; and in both capacities I bear my testimony to its value and importance.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  I found my pupil sufficiently docile, though disinclined to apply: she had not been used to regular occupation of any kind.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
7  Pain, shame, ire, impatience, disgust, detestation, seemed momentarily to hold a quivering conflict in the large pupil dilating under his ebon eyebrow.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  If, in the moments I and my pupil spent with him, I lacked spirits and sank into inevitable dejection, he became even gay.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
9  Mary would sit and watch me by the hour together: then she would take lessons; and a docile, intelligent, assiduous pupil she made.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
10  The task was done, not free from further blunders; but the pupil claimed a reward, and received at least five kisses; which, however, he generously returned.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  When this slight disagreement was over, they were friends again, and as busy as possible in their several occupations of pupil and teacher.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
12  If he could have known how nearly the compliment lost him his pupil, I doubt if he would have paid it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIII
13  If he had shown indifference as a master, I have no doubt I should have returned the compliment as a pupil; he gave me no such excuse, and each of us did the other justice.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIV
14  I was excessively anxious to get Mr. Micawber away; and replied, with my hat in my hand, and a very red face, I have no doubt, that I was a pupil at Doctor Strong's.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP
15  Put this and that together, my tender pupil,' returned the wary Mowcher, touching her nose, 'work it by the rule of Secrets in all trades, and the product will give you the desired result.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
Example Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
16  At night, the pupils dilate to allow in more light.
17  She showed her methods of analysis to her pupils.
18  The school offers manual training to the pupils.
19  The pupils replied in one voice.
20  The Government has pooh-poohed the idea that primary schools will begin to select pupils.
21  Educators try to put pupils of similar abilities into classes because they believe that this homogeneous grouping is advisable.
22  A key task is to get pupils to perceive for themselves the relationship between success and effort.
23  The pupils lined up to board the school bus.
24  The teacher told his pupils to spread out and not to bunch up in the center of the playground.
25  The school has pupils from many different ethnic/cultural/religious backgrounds.
26  Lack of discipline at home meant that many pupils found it difficult to settle in to the ordered environment of the school.
27  Her pupils often got the rough edge of her tongue when they disobeyed her.
28  The school has come under attack for failing to encourage bright pupils.
29  The pupils of your eyes dilate when you enter a dark room.
30  Senior pupils are expected to set an example to the younger children.