Wondering how to use Classmate in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as schoolmate or acquaintance.
Classmate meaning
- A student who is in the same class at school.
- A member of a different sort of class, such as locomotives etc.
Synonyms of Classmate
Using Classmate
- The main meaning on this page is: A student who is in the same class at school. | A member of a different sort of class, such as locomotives etc.
- Useful related words include: schoolmate, schoolfellow, class fellow, acquaintance.
- In the example corpus, classmate often appears in combinations such as: former classmate, classmate of, school classmate.
Context around Classmate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 15 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Classmate
- In this selection, "classmate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, former, school, fellow, casey, either and fiona stand out and add context to how "classmate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a classmate of our and a dead classmate s blood. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "classmate" sits close to words such as acidic, adamu and attributable, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with classmate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Hawes was Wallin's classmate in the Fargo Police Academy. (10 words)
Buster has refuted any involvement with his former classmate, either romantically or in his death. (15 words)
Is there a fellow classmate you think might be bound to follow in these celebrities footsteps? (16 words)
In a copy of the letter obtained by The New York Times, the classmate’s name is redacted, but a spokesman for Mr. Coons, Sean Coit, confirmed that the classmate was Max Stier, who runs the Partnership for Public Service, a Washington nonprofit. (43 words)
A 12-year-old Jewish student was forced to kneel down and kiss the shoes of a Muslim classmate, while a five-year-old boy was allegedly called a “Jewish cockroach” and repeatedly hounded in the school toilets by his young classmates. (42 words)
As information unfold throughout the nation about Kohberger’s arrest, former highschool classmate Casey Arntz took her shock to social media, revealing she met Kohberger on their college bus in japanese Pennsylvania. (32 words)
Is there a fellow classmate you think might be bound to follow in these celebrities footsteps? (16 words)
Example sentences (20)
In a copy of the letter obtained by The New York Times, the classmate’s name is redacted, but a spokesman for Mr. Coons, Sean Coit, confirmed that the classmate was Max Stier, who runs the Partnership for Public Service, a Washington nonprofit.
A 12-year-old Jewish student was forced to kneel down and kiss the shoes of a Muslim classmate, while a five-year-old boy was allegedly called a “Jewish cockroach” and repeatedly hounded in the school toilets by his young classmates.
A classmate of our eldest daughter died in kindergarten from acute encephalopathy caused by a high fever from influenza.
A former classmate of hers who was working in the marketing department at Uptown MCA Records enlisted her help with styling a photo shoot.
A Grade 11 girl found herself avoiding parts of her east end neighbourhood where a former (middle school) classmate made violent threats in private messages about the situation in Israel.
Another classmate who has followed his career path closely remarked that Citi sees him as a troubleshooter and an achiever who can get things done.
As information unfold throughout the nation about Kohberger’s arrest, former highschool classmate Casey Arntz took her shock to social media, revealing she met Kohberger on their college bus in japanese Pennsylvania.
Ballmer, a classmate of Bill Gates’ at Harvard University, ran Microsoft as its CEO from 2000 to 2014.
Buster has refuted any involvement with his former classmate, either romantically or in his death.
Dani brings along her art school classmate Fiona, whose blase attitude toward the city and its tourist traps impact the mood from the jump.
Each episode covers a smaller mystery that Veronica unfolds for a fellow classmate or someone from the small town of Neptune, California.
Eleven-year-old Miah Cerrillo, who covered herself in a dead classmate’s blood to play dead, said it felt like three hours before the police responded.
From left: Professor Henry Laurence, classmate Linda Kinstler, Professor Brock Clarke and Wall Street Journal Washington Editor Paul Beckett.
Hawes was Wallin's classmate in the Fargo Police Academy.
However, an incident at school just seems to prove her worst fears when Jae-young stabs a classmate, stating afterward that she intended to kill him.
In 1985 Becky was playing hopscotch with her classmate, Andrea, at Queen’s Drive Infant School when Chris took her photo.
Is there a fellow classmate you think might be bound to follow in these celebrities footsteps?
I thought something would happen,” Zohar, a classmate of 18-year-old Israeli hostage Noga Weiss, told reported.
It stars Barry Keoghan as Oliver Quick, an Oxford University freshman on a scholarship who’s drawn to a dashing, aristocratic classmate named Felix Catton, played by Jacob Elordi.
I was originally planning to make the film with a classmate, but he couldn’t get a visa, so I had to shoot and do the sound by myself.
Common combinations with classmate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: