How to Use student body in a Sentence

student body

noun
  • Soon, one-third of the student body was out sick.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, CNN Money, 17 May 2026
  • More than a third of the student body signed up for the test.
    — Storey Wertheimer, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026
  • In front of the entire student body.
    — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
  • That the health and safety of the student body comes before all else.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • So has the new lottery process helped bring in a more diverse student body?
    — Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The whole student body are thus to be punished for the actions of just a few.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Freeman went to the business school to talk in front of the student body.
    — Pete Sampson, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The student body is small, so adults in the building know every child’s name.
    — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The school's student body is about 60% female.
    — Jason Armesto, AJC.com, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The student body of 800 is one of the most diverse in the state.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 May 2021
  • The name was selected by the student body from a list of choices.
    — Fox News, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Milford serves a very diverse student body.
    — Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Wasatch has a team drawn from the rest of its student body that competes against Utah high schools.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2023
  • In the new plan, the student body is being divided in half based on their last names.
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 12 Aug. 2020
  • The Greenport drill was not imposed on the school’s staff or student body.
    — New York Times, 28 June 2022
  • But once again, a growing order and student body had the sisters in search of a new home.
    — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Involve myself in the student body through clubs and campus events.
    — Garfield Hylton, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 June 2026
  • Black children make up about 10% of the student body in that district.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 May 2021
  • More than 64 percent of its student body comes to school buildings two days a week.
    — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Suzanne is strongly against a vaccine mandate, even as the mumps spreads through the student body.
    — Mary Damiano, Miami Herald, 27 May 2026
  • The work is tough, but soon will yield more than 1,000 pounds of food for the student body.
    — Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Oct. 2021
  • By the end of the year, 97% of the student body were in person, Tolj said.
    — Kristen Griffith, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 2 July 2021
  • What will happen once the rest of the student body returns to these campuses?
    — Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 10 July 2020
  • No one wants to see someone from our student body die let alone a freshman who just got here at 18.
    — Suzanne Le Mignot, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Still, families see the makeup of the student body as an asset.
    — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The student body is now more than half Latino and about 30% Black.
    — Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • However, there have been many from student bodies.
    — Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • But one of the friends took a screen shot of the photo and started circulating it among the student body.
    — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The sport energizes the entire student body.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2025
  • The student body seems to have ranged from 150 to 350 in kindergarten through sixth grade.
    — Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2026

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