How to Use scholar in a Sentence

scholar

noun
  • She's a renowned scholar of African-American history.
  • Read more about this year's scholars here.
    — Rachel Wegner, Nashville Tennessean, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The idea is backed by some death penalty scholars.
    — Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Some scholars have likened the process to a kind of public penance.
    — Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The scholar was pronounced dead the next day.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
  • This is the program’s third group of scholars.
    — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026
  • First, yes, these scholars knew how to protect their eyes from the sun.
    — Ryan Knighton, AFAR Media, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The scholar can score one free donut for each A and can get six free donuts at most.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
  • For scholar athlete of the week, he was asked about his study secrets.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Nagy, though, is too much of a scholar to be satisfied with just that.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Let’s hope the scholars are heard in this case, even though things currently look bleak.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Some of it is aimed at exactly the kind of work that scholars are supposed to do.
    — William Deresiewicz, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The students and scholars nurtured in this ancient way will not be timid.
    — MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Over the years, scholars and writers have seen versions of it in other places.
    — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Lipsey of Iowa State was named the league’s scholar-athlete of the year.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Thanks in part to scholars like Huang, her legacy won’t suffer the same fate.
    — Mayukh Sen, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2023
  • And some church scholars are calling it something of a revival.
    — Ed Specht, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Over the course of the past decade, however, scholars have begun to fill that gap.
    — Daniel M. Stuart, The Conversation, 16 Mar. 2026
  • In short, Chicago is a place for scholars’ scholars.
    — Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Legal scholars and court watchers were shocked by our finding.
    — Ken B. Morales, ProPublica, 1 July 2026
  • Both scholars judged the Bible a fraud and hatched a plan to disprove it-just for giggles.
    — Dan Miller, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Gardner’s work explains less about him than scholars have long imagined.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Gabrielle Blair is not a legal scholar or an ethicist or pundit.
    — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 20 May 2022
  • Legal scholars say that is not an accident.
    — Daniel C. Vock, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The debate, as a legal scholar once explained, tends to fall into two camps.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2026
  • There's a lot of legal scholar that say the former president doesn't have a great case.
    — ABC News, 17 Oct. 2021
  • At the time of his murder, Markel was a rising legal scholar.
    — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Per usual, Bryant is eloquent throughout, a true scholar of the game.
    — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Aslan is an amiable, shaggy-haired scholar with a scraggly beard and mustache.
    — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2022
  • On the other hand, scholars have found countries governed by populists are worse off.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025

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