How to Use classmate in a Sentence

classmate

noun
  • Her classmates will get out of school soon.
    — Rodrigo Hasbún, Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Zuriel is back with her classmates.
    — Jennifer Mayerle, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • What will your classmates learn from you?
    — Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • All my classmates laughed at me.
    — Judith Levy, Sun Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2026
  • They are learned among friends and classmates.
    — W. Ian O'Byrne, The Conversation, 15 June 2026
  • My classmates weren’t big fans.
    — Colton Valentine, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Two of them had their knees on their classmate’s neck and back.
    — Washington Post, 8 June 2021
  • His classmates brought just iPads.
    — Natalie Yahr, jsonline.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The classmate laughed, so Matthew laughed, too.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
  • The rest of our classmates wouldn’t show up for a week or more, if at all.
    — Emily Gogolak, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • One girl smeared herself with a classmate’s blood and played dead.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2022
  • His quick thinking saved his classmate's life and earned him a new award.
    — Madeline Coggins, Fox News, 7 July 2022
  • The girls told me that their old classmates had made fun of them, but no one did that now.
    — David Owen, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Within weeks, so many of his classmates fell ill that their school shut down.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, CNN Money, 17 May 2026
  • The school work, the grades, the parties classmates will have, the play dates.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Next to me, a classmate takes aim at a Black man in overalls.
    — Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 3 Jan. 2023
  • His classmates were allowed in.
    — Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2025
  • My classmates and their parents couldn’t point to Iran on a map.
    — Literary Hub, 29 June 2026
  • He and two of his classmates were chosen to compete this year.
    — Libby Smith, CBS News, 1 May 2026
  • It was determined that the sender was a classmate from school.
    — cleveland, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Gavin Owens said some of his classmates can’t seem to stop gambling.
    — Suzy Khimm, NBC news, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Hopes are now fading for dozens of their classmates who remain buried.
    — Helen Regan, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
  • What happens in schools after a classmate is killed?
    — Jerald McNair, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Kids may be nervous about seeing some of their classmates for the first time in months.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Students at the protest were standing up for their classmates.
    — Anna McAllister, CBS News, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Students quickly joined in to sing-along to their classmate’s tune.
    — Erick Trevino, AZCentral.com, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Lori learned that some classmates had stopped including him.
    — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The parents of a classmate had bought a poster-size map of the world for their daughter.
    — Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 15 June 2025
  • Charges brought by the two parents of the boy's classmates came in the weeks that followed.
    — Rachel Wegner, Nashville Tennessean, 19 Dec. 2025
  • All of this just seemed like so much for a child to be able to play a game of tennis with his classmates.
    — Condé Nast, SELF, 24 Aug. 2023

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