ACADEMIC in a Sentence

Learn ACADEMIC from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
49 example sentences for ACADEMIC, such as:
1. He is not very academic by nature.
2. The issue centers round academic freedom.
3. I was never a particularly academic child.
4. The issue centers around academic freedom.
5. The author has settled for a more academic approach.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ACADEMIC
academic
 a.  marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
 a.  hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result
Classic Sentence:
1  When the difficulty of learning the English language was subtracted, I found that in the matter of learning trades and in mastering academic studies there was little difference between the coloured and Indian students.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI.
2  It was further required that they must work for ten hours during the day at some trade or industry, and study academic branches for two hours during the evening.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIII.
3  After the student has left the night-school he enters the day-school, where he takes academic branches four days in a week, and works at his trade two days.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIII.
4  As a rule, after a student has succeeded in going through the night-school test, he finds a way to finish the regular course in industrial and academic training.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIII.
5  In fact, the industrial work is now as popular as the academic branches.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIII.
6  Those delivered before the coloured people had for their main object the impressing upon them the importance of industrial and technical education in addition to academic and religious training.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIII.
7  There are in constant operation at the school, in connection with thorough academic and religious training, thirty industrial departments.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII.
8  Doubtless Albert was about to discuss seriously his right to the academic chair when they were informed that dinner was ready.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 36. The Carnival at Rome.
9  Having obtained from this clerk a direction to the academic grove in question, I set out, the same afternoon, to visit my old schoolfellow.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27. TOMMY TRADDLES
10  TWO YEARS AFTER I left Lincoln, I completed my academic course at Harvard.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I
11  I felt that I was wasting my time in the academic examination of machinery.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VIII
12  He is not very academic by nature.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1  It's impossible to apply the same academic standards across the country.
2  He launched a determined attack on academic criticism.
3  The author has settled for a more academic approach.
4  The academic year commences at the beginning of October.
5  I was never a particularly academic child.
6  There is a close connection between family background and academic achievement.
7  A financial scandal would shake the Institute's standing in the international academic community.
8  This is the academic discipline which is the intellectual concept of both theories and methods.
9  The Delegates meet at intervals to determine policy, in particular publishing policy in the academic field.
10  The issue centers around academic freedom.
11  The issue centers round academic freedom.
12  We are able to identify absentees immediately and use the extra time to tackle the problem with academic counselling.
13  This is not a purely academic exercise: it should have a real impact on the way we work as a department.
14  Other students may try to improve their academic performance by going to their summer schools.
15  His grand design was to connect up every academic institution in the world.