How to Use teacher in a Sentence

teacher

noun
  • She is a first-grade teacher.
  • Experience is a good teacher.
  • My son is a third grade teacher.
    — Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
  • That is not a dig at schools or teachers.
    — Ann Bullock, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2026
  • But teachers cannot do this alone.
    — Lance Walters, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2026
  • All the kids are safe and the teachers are safe.
    — CBS News, 18 May 2026
  • Join, stay in, talk to the teacher next door.
    — Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 May 2026
  • Cops and teachers, man, those are not easy jobs.
    — Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The work was a gut punch for an old teacher like me.
    — Justin Reich, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Roy Hunter and his wife, who may have been teachers.
    — Charlotte Observer, 11 May 2026
  • Stop trying to take on the role of teacher.
    — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 18 May 2026
  • Kevin quit driving the bus and trained as a teacher.
    — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Oh, the things that teachers say and students take to heart.
    — Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • For students and teachers, this was more than a tech glitch.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 May 2026
  • Cross was a theater arts teacher at each of the three schools.
    — Jarrod Wardwell, Houston Chronicle, 11 May 2026
  • By this point in the school year, every teacher can feel it.
    — Lance Walters, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Doris bundled treat bags for the teachers.
    — Kelly Wilkinson, IndyStar, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The most senior teacher at the school has been there less than a year.
    — Michael Cuglietta, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 June 2026
  • Injuries can be a strong teacher.
    — Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Gout, like many a great teacher, gives her lessons on her own schedule.
    — Jan Steyn, The Dial, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The teachers, the parents love her.
    — David Chiu, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Just look back online and see the name of a first pet or a first-grade teacher.
    — Chelsea Jarvie and Karen Renaud, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2022
  • James briefed teachers on their return.
    — John Wisely, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Where will our gym and English teacher tie the knot?
    — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • But a teacher in front of the classroom is the problem.
    — Big Think, 11 Sep. 2025
  • And the grief was such a radical teacher about my life.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 4 June 2026
  • Every class has to have a teacher and a room for every hour of the day.
    — Robert Hutton, Bloomberg.com, 21 Aug. 2020
  • That weird glimpse of a teacher not as a teacher at all but as a person.
    — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The teacher then changed her mind and put it back in the original spot.
    — Natalie Demaree, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
  • But to do that, teachers need to figure out which skill is lacking.
    — Theo Peck-Suzuki, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2026

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