How to Use professor in a Sentence

professor

noun
  • Professor Williams will be teaching the class.
  • Many of them could not get a job as a professor or a teacher.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2024
  • My role as a professor is not to guide, but to make space for self- guidance.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
  • But Hayes isn’t just any professor.
    — Lily Kepner, Austin American Statesman, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Gopnik is a physics professor who finds his life fraying at the seams.
    — Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024
  • My first year as a law professor was in 2005.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Soon, professors were asking her boyfriend about his dinner plans.
    — Sughnen Yongo, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • The professor said the war is just in the beginning stages, with the regime change still up in the air.
    — Chris Tye, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Probably not in a big way, two professors say.
    — Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 23 May 2026
  • For Albom, seeing his old professor on screen was a punch to the gut.
    — Matthew Scogin, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • Known throughout the world, Powell won awards both as an artist and professor.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Clay was both their professor and supervised them in non-campus jobs.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Now, fire the professor who acted contrary to Texas law.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Sep. 2025
  • If professors give a good grade, students will return the favor.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Tobias Wolff was one of the other professors there.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 14 June 2026
  • Weisz portrays said professor, and Woodall is her new colleague.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Michael Elowitz, professor at Caltech, who was not part of the study, praised the work.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025
  • My professors there were gifted close readers.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
  • My father was a doctor, my mother was a professor of music.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • As events unfold, a dark secret from the professor’s past threatens to be revealed.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Megan Fox’s latest look is giving professor chic.
    — Juliana Ukiomogbe, InStyle, 9 Apr. 2026
  • But the professor was a Joyce specialist and had his own ideas about how Ulysses should be taught.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The professors used proteins from spoiled milk to make a more sustainable plastic.
    — Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Why pay salaries plus benefits for professors to teach to empty classrooms?
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • After which, what could Musk’s teachers and future professors teach him?
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • She was fired in part for trying to unionize the professors there according to Kaizen.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • As the frenzied crowd chanted and four teenage girls shattered the professor’s skull with their belts, a visible chill came over her.
    — Alexander Woo, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2024
  • One friend is a professor who uses K-pop to teach literature.
    — Megan Frampton, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Mormino started as Huse’s professor and then became a friend and mentor.
    — Gabrielle Calise, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
  • After the bot determined that the whole class had done so, the professor threatened to fail everyone.
    — Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2023

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