How to Use colleague in a Sentence

colleague

noun
  • A colleague of mine will be speaking at the conference.
  • My next step was to call my colleagues.
    — Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Two on-air colleagues told him to run.
    — Jay Stahl, USA Today, 14 May 2026
  • How do your colleagues get along with them?
    — Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The colleague asked not to be named.
    — Allison Gordon, CNN Money, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Smith called colleagues at home for help.
    — Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 June 2026
  • Our hearts break again for our colleague.
    — Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Our hearts break again for our colleague.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Talk to your friends and colleagues.
    — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Tell your colleague to stop it.
    — Judith Martin, Dallas Morning News, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Her words have been echoed by her colleagues.
    — Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 6 Sep. 2025
  • So he and a team of colleagues set out to study it.
    — Meg Tirrell, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Not just some stranger, but your colleague and friend.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Kane and his colleagues have been trying to find out.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • My colleagues needed their jobs to make ends meet.
    — Ann Larson, Time, 11 June 2026
  • One by one, her colleagues slowed to a stop behind her.
    — Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The mood had soured among many of his former colleagues.
    — Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Again, my other colleagues are very good at that.
    — Max Norman, New Yorker, 25 June 2026
  • To see their colleagues get shot and killed in the line of duty.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
  • As for my colleagues trying them on for size for the first time?
    — Andrea Zendejas, Vogue, 24 June 2026
  • So it’s not lost on my colleagues, either.
    — Bill Barrow, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Your colleagues know you as someone else.
    — Gillian Telling, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026
  • Agents don’t like to have to compete with their colleagues for projects.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Carlson and his colleagues changed that.
    — Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Her colleague, the one from the hallway, is among those who came back from the brink.
    — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 6 Oct. 2025
  • That was in 2015, with a colleague.
    — Marielle Segarra, NPR, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Have the whole crew sign this oversized card that will help wish your colleague all the best.
    — Michelle Manetti, Good Housekeeping, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Push back the way a good doctor pushes back on a colleague.
    — Sudheesha Perera, Time, 6 May 2026
  • Take a friend or colleague with you on your daily coffee run.
    — Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 10 June 2022
  • But what are Jensen and colleagues looking for?
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2025

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