How to Use course in a Sentence

course

1 of 2 noun
  • The pilot brought the plane back on course.
  • The ship was blown off course by a storm.
  • There is no cure, but the treatment will slow the course of the disease.
  • Students earn the degree after a two-year course of study.
  • She's taking a chemistry course this semester.
  • These aren't crimes, of course.
    — Isaac Saul, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • There is, of course, one catch.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
  • That trend won’t last, of course.
    — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2025
  • But what makes the course so hard?
    — Jacob Lev, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
  • And, of course, six straight wins.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2026
  • And, of course, that isn’t the way.
    — Michele Amabile Angermiller, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2026
  • And that, of course, is the point.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Ryan, of course, has done the most.
    — Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 May 2026
  • Ukraine, of course, isn't one of them.
    — Daniel R. Depetris, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Things went wrong, of course, as things do.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • And of course, that tank was full of oil.
    — Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
  • But, of course, the steak was the star.
    — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The booth, of course, served as his stage.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 4 May 2026
  • And, of course, take a look at the view.
    — John Ross, Vanity Fair, 18 May 2026
  • The course is the course, and that is the rock.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Stevens, of course, was not pleased with this turn of events.
    — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Grab one to match her, and, of course, stay dry out there.
    — Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 11 May 2026
  • What a weekend on and off the course.
    — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2026
  • By way of our judgments, of course.
    — Massimo Pigliucci, Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026
  • No reprieve is in sight, of course.
    — Nashville Tennessean, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Record your process and turn it into a course.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • Upgrade over the course of six months.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 7 Jan. 2026
  • And, bake an apple crisp, of course!
    — Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Friend groups are real, of course.
    — Jenny Singer, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2026
  • That’s fine over the course of 162 games.
    — Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025

course

2 of 2 verb
  • Tears were coursing down his cheeks.
  • Just put a name to the anger coursing through your veins.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 10 June 2026
  • Up close, it is coursed with rivulets, beaded and pearled with droplets.
    — Taymour Soomro Scott Conarroe, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • When in doubt, err on the side of caution, slow down and course correct.
    — John Hall, Forbes, 1 May 2022
  • But what if more water than that comes coursing down from the mountains?
    — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The healthy outlook coursing through Liu’s veins jumps out on the ice.
    — Elliott Almond, Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • His eyes twitched in rapid blinks, his lips disappeared as if cold fury were coursing through his body.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Or course such a stay comes with a White Lotus-worthy price tag.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The load of water waiting to course downhill dwarfs what is there already.
    — Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Or was the rage hiding in plain sight, coursing beneath the surface of even this placid scene?
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Such discussions may even lead to course corrections in the field.
    — Paul Knoepfler, STAT, 24 June 2026
  • You should be concerned; however, there is time to course correct.
    — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Some spirit seemed to course through their horns, erupting and dispersing.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The emotions coursed through him afterwards.
    — Zak Keefer, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The chair lurched as the first shock of 2,300 volts coursed through Weber's body.
    — Tribune Media Services, al, 5 Jan. 2020
  • Her body grows weaker and weaker as the poison courses through her little fish body.
    — Kathryn Kvas, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
  • There are a wide range of emotions coursing through the halls of CNN.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 6 June 2023
  • Treat it like a new hire, with a clear job, a short feedback loop, and a willingness to course-correct.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
  • Water began to course through the loop, moving with a low, vibrating hum.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
  • By the time Allbirds tried to course-correct, its moment in the zeitgeist had come and gone.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Flash flooding in the area swamped cars, homes, and some businesses, as raging waters coursed through streets and yards.
    — Sarah Raza, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The company is slashing prices to course correct, but its efforts may be too little too late.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2026
  • But while bleaker themes course through on some parts of the album, this is a band that can’t escape its own ebullience elsewhere.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The bank’s failure set off a chain reaction that has coursed through the global banking system in the weeks since.
    — Jeanna Smialek, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Upon his return, Crane started to course correct.
    — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Devastation and grief coursed through the building, where the president and his aides were in a state of shock.
    — Joey Garrison, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
  • But anyone who’s lived a little knows that no matter what course your life is on, everything can change in an instant.
    — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 28 Oct. 2022
  • And about the obsession that courses through dozens of countries on the continent.
    — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 3 June 2026
  • The only way to course correct and save our democracy is to register to vote, go to the polls and make your voice heard.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The protest movement has coursed through Kumukahi’s family.
    — Matt Negrin, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2025

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