(n.) One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pupils who disrupt the learning of their classmates are dealt with firmly and, in many cases, a short suspension is an effective way of nipping bad behaviour in the bud."
(2) Along with a lengthy list of cameos, Girls actor Gaby Hoffmann and Party Down star Martin Starr appear as former Neptune High classmates new to the Veronica Mars universe.
(3) Normative ranges of drinking converged from September to April, suggesting the emerging norms were the product of social experience with classmates.
(4) Friends and classmates were receiving psychological counselling at the school on Thursday, Ouest-France newspaper said, adding that the first some had heard of the attack was on the television news.
(5) Our classmates tell us that they are embarrassed when their family and friends ask them to explain the causes of the current crisis and they can't.
(6) She has written informing them that FGM is a concern for her and her classmates, and calling on the education department to become part of the solution.
(7) Police are trying to determine why a Washington state high school student shot dead a female classmate and wounded four others on Friday, before killing himself.
(8) Alcohol abusers describe themselves as less warm, kind, gentle, and emotionally expressive than their classmates, and were more preoccupied with themes of power in spontaneous fantasy productions.
(9) Girls have also outperformed boys in terms of grades at A*-C. • In biology, physics and chemistry, girls outperform their male classmates at A* and A grades even though more boys than girls take these subjects.
(10) Veronica investigated her classmates, and that still matters In Mars vs Mars, the 14th episode of season one, Veronica’s classmate Carrie (Leighton Meister) claims she slept with their teacher, Mr Rooks (Adam Scott).
(11) Yet she spoke mostly of her deep concern for her friends and classmates still in captivity and pleaded for their immediate rescue."
(12) In a 2012 report, UCLA's Civil Rights Project noted : "Nationwide, the typical black student is now in a school where almost two out of every three classmates (64%) are low income."
(13) From classmates who thought a black girl with a book was acting white.
(14) The students thought that 18.4% of their classmates had ever had coitus, compared with 23.5% on self-report.
(15) Findings were that hyperactive children were more spontaneously talkative than their classmates during transitions and nonverbal tasks (nonelicited conditions) but were less talkative when they were asked to tell stories (elicited conditions).
(16) They also complain that because children on free school meals get transport on routes that are over two miles long and will therefore still get a bus to school while their classmates walk, the kind of cuts seen in East Sussex risk stigmatising pupils from low-income families.
(17) Classmates, family friends and neighbours said the tall, withdrawn young man had always seemed more shy than violent.
(18) Who’s ready to continue the policies of the last few years under President Obama?” began Bob Henriquez, who introduced himself as a classmate of Michelle Obama at Princeton.
(19) Selected local medical students interviewed 554 physicians who had returned home after U.S. training and 60 of their classmates who had not trained there.
(20) They also predicted the preferences of an unfavored classmate and of favored and unfavored ambiguous targets.
Roommate
Definition:
(n.) One of twe or more occupying the same room or rooms; one who shares the occupancy of a room or rooms; a chum.
Example Sentences:
(1) But my roommate wasn’t the only one who was victim-blaming; it was a person (or persons) in the jury.
(2) I’m trans-racial, my son’s trans-racial, my roommate is African American,” she said.
(3) He's introduced by his roommates to beautiful, mysterious and emotionally confused Alaska Young, and the story progresses, mostly centered around Miles' life at Culver Creek and his growing attachment to Alaska.
(4) In comparison with control subjects, the roommates of persistently depressed persons displayed a progressive increase in BDI score over the course of the study.
(5) Subjects found compatibility with roommates and money management to be the biggest challenges.
(6) Dysphorics (n = 6) were more inclined to seek unfavorable feedback from their roommates than were nondepressives (n = 16); feedback-seeking activities of dysphorics were also associated with later rejection (Study 3).
(7) There was an altercation with guards, after which the roommate was removed to the Kingfisher isolation unit for three days.
(8) Obama's roommates were Paul Carpenter, a blond southern Californian who occasionally took his friends surfing (bodysurfing, in Barry's case), and Imad Husain, an intellectual Pakistani with a droll sense of humour who grew up in Karachi (though his parents now lived in Dubai) and finished his secondary education at Bedford School in the UK.
(9) This is a woman who was teenage roommates with Christy Turlington and is Nelson Mandela's honorary granddaughter, who has appeared in music videos for Bob Marley and George Michael, and whose ex-boyfriends include Robert De Niro and Mike Tyson.
(10) Measures of interpersonal behaviors exhibited by depressed college students toward their dormitory roommates were cluster analyzed, and this procedure produced 2 relatively distinct subgroups: a dependent, friendly, overgenerous type and an autocratic, competitive, aggressive, mistrustful type.
(11) I wasn’t surprised that this woman took so many wilful leaps past “couple” and landed on “roommates” in her split-second sussing-out of our relationship – it happens literally all the time.
(12) For comparative purposes, BDI scores were also obtained from roommates of individuals who were transiently depressed and from subjects with nondepressed roommates.
(13) Students and roommates were most often those responsible.
(14) "I found Joe on Craigslist and we became roommates by chance."
(15) This study examined the effect of preoperative roommate assignment on the preoperative anxiety and postoperative recovery of 27 male coronary-bypass patients.
(16) When I could actually sit up and move – not frozen lying down – I asked my roommate to take me to the hospital.
(17) The EBV infection rate among exposed and susceptible roommates of known cases was no higher than in roommates not so exposed.Elevations of EBV-specific and total IgM occurred during acute illness and disappeared in late convalescence.
(18) A roommate of Boyne’s denied that she called her that night.
(19) We are platonic adult roommates who hold hands at bars.
(20) Finally, depressed targets perceived their interpersonal impact negatively, whereas their normal roommates perceived their own interpersonal impact as overly positive.