How to Use semester in a Sentence

semester

noun
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  • And maybe by the time the next semester begins, there is a cease-fire in Gaza.
    — CBS News, 4 May 2024
  • Six of them signed in January and joined the Aztecs for the spring 2022 semester.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022
  • But one of the best parts of the first semester is prepping for homecoming, aka the first big bash of the school year.
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 24 May 2023
  • By then, school had ended for the semester and his room had been cleaned out.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Each semester a new chef-instructor takes the helm and shapes the menu.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Nesbitt has been the interim dean since the end of the spring semester.
    — The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 16 Aug. 2023
  • It has been lectured and assigned in classrooms for six semesters straight.
    — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The field trip is a source of insight that carries through the entire semester.
    — David Yamane, The Conversation, 26 June 2023
  • Dickie primed me for Mr. Ripley at the end of that semester.
    — Hazlitt, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Spending some time those first few weeks of fall semester is a great idea, says Page.
    — Sara Gaynes Levy, Peoplemag, 26 July 2023
  • Davis was his student this semester and Chandler was in his class in Spring 2022.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2022
  • It’s been that way since my first semester of college, during the last day of finals.
    — Esra Erol, Bon Appétit, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The quiz, a softball at the start of the fall semester, asked students to subtract eight from negative six.
    — Collin Binkley, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The spring semester has begun and amidst the start of classes and a new academic era, the Green Terror sports teams are still putting in the work.
    — Emily Hollwedel, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2023
  • From the big football game and fun homecoming floats to the dance, homecoming is one of the most special nights of the fall semester.
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 18 May 2023
  • News of the tour, first reported by ABC News, comes as students return to school for the fall semester.
    — Rachel Scott, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Phillips claims he was allowed to continue out the last few days of the school semester and his last day was August 2023.
    — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Revel said Jaylin earned a rare C in gym his final semester, keeping him off the honor roll for the first time in years.
    — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
  • Students pay a flat rate of $5,000 per semester for the housing program.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Oct. 2022
  • School staff had to administer naloxone 18 times over the course of a school year, and five students died over the course of about one semester.
    — Rae Ellen Bichell, CNN, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Her tenure runs through the fall semester of 2023, with options to renew.
    — Virginia Aabram, Washington Examiner, 1 Mar. 2023
  • At Fordham, the students formed three teams, and each worked with a defendant on a video during the spring semester.
    — Karen Zraick, New York Times, 23 June 2023
  • Working your brown-and-gold gut into an ulcer at this point is akin to grading a class during the first week of the semester.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2023
  • For some schools, the application window for the fall semester has long closed.
    — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2023
  • And yet, Galihadd dropped out of college after two semesters.
    — Alice Li, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
  • Does the school admit people on a rolling basis or do new students have to wait until the fall semester to start?
    — Chris Quintana, The Courier-Journal, 9 May 2024
  • Any of these options are perfect for starting a new school semester, and the teacher will surely get tons of use out of it.
    — Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 9 Nov. 2023
  • If that’s the case, Finley—who graduates at the end of this semester—will sit down with Freeze to discuss his own future.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 9 Apr. 2023
  • And Coffey’s commitment came just in time to enroll in the spring semester.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Abby, Adam has never held a job, and manages only one junior college class a semester in his quest to enter a four-year university.
    — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2024

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