STUDENT in a Sentence

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For STUDENT, below is one of 420 sentences:
The cost of tuition, which was fifty dollars a year for each student, we had to secure then, as now, wherever we could.

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 Meanings and Examples of STUDENT
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student
 n.  a person who is studying at a school; pupil
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  All this is the social student's inspiration and despair.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
2  The longing to know, to be a student in the great school at Nashville, hovered like a star above this child-woman amid her work and worry, and she studied doggedly.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  Since under the peculiar circumstances of the black man's environment they were the one expression of his higher life, they are of deep interest to the student of his development, both socially and psychologically.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
4  As soon as it became known that General Armstrong would be pleased if some of the older students would live in the tents during the winter, nearly every student in school volunteered to go.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III.
5  No student, I think, who has had the opportunity of doing this could go out into the world and content himself with the poorest grades.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV.
6  This included the time that I spent as a student at Hampton and as a teacher in West Virginia.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V.
7  At Hampton the student was constantly making the effort through the industries to help himself, and that very effort was of immense value in character-building.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V.
8  During the time I was a student at Washington the city was crowded with coloured people, many of whom had recently come from the South.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V.
9  At another time I remember that I made it known in chapel, one night, that a very poor student was suffering from cold, because he needed a coat.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX.
10  During the now nineteen years' existence of the Tuskegee school, the plan of having the buildings erected by student labour has been adhered to.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X.
11  In this time forty buildings, counting small and large, have been built, and all except four are almost wholly the product of student labour.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X.
12  By this time it had gotten to be pretty well advertised throughout the state that every student who came to Tuskegee, no matter what his financial ability might be, must learn some industry.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X.
13  The cost of tuition, which was fifty dollars a year for each student, we had to secure then, as now, wherever we could.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI.
14  I almost never go out of my office when the rain is falling that some student does not come to my side with an umbrella and ask to be allowed to hold it over me.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI.
15  No student is permitted to retain who does not keep and use a tooth-brush.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The new building will mean that we can meet the challenge of increasing student numbers.
17  We had to move that student down to an easier class.
18  A former student has donated a munificent sum of money to the college.
19  The book is intended for college student.
20  Several colleges in our study have rigid rules about student conduct.
21  Rules governing student conduct relaxed somewhat in recent years.
22  We stayed at a student hostel during the conference.
23  A chance conversation led to a brilliant new career for the young catering student.
24  School should encourage the full development of a student's talents.
25  The college has established an effective student support mechanism.
26  Language games are usually intended to encourage student interaction.
27  The teacher made an example of the boy who copied from another student during a test.
28  School administrators were unable to explain the slide in student performance.
29  It's rude to mock at a foreign student's mistakes in English.
30  It's impolite to gibe at a foreign student's English.