PROFESSOR in a Sentence

Learn PROFESSOR 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.
147 example sentences for PROFESSOR, such as:
1. The professor improvised a poem in the class.
2. The professor will give a demonstration in class.
3. The professor adapted his lecture to his audience.
4. The professor theorized about the age of the earth.
5. His professor gets a mention in the acknowledgements.
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 Meanings and Examples of PROFESSOR
professor
 n.  someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university
Classic Sentence: (73 in 5 pages)
1  I had but to drink the cup, to doff at once the body of the noted professor, and to assume, like a thick cloak, that of Edward Hyde.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
2  He held it up and tapped on it with his long, thin fore-finger, as a professor might who was lecturing on a bone.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
3  He is clean-shaven, pale, and ascetic-looking, retaining something of the professor in his features.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
4  The professor is writing a learned book, and he found it necessary, about a year ago, to engage a secretary.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
5  His work consisted in writing all the morning to the professor's dictation, and he usually spent the evening in hunting up references and passages which bore upon the next day's work.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
6  The professor was buried in his work and existed for nothing else.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
7  It was part of the fittings of the professor's own desk.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
8  Leaving Susan with the body, she hurried to the professor's room.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
9  The professor declares that he heard the distant cry, but that he knows nothing more.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
10  I must ask you first, Mr. Holmes, to glance at this rough plan, which will give you a general idea of the position of the professor's study and the various points of the case.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
11  There were some papers of importance in the cupboard, but there were no signs that this had been tampered with, and the professor assures me that nothing was missing.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
12  I understand that this other passage leads only to the professor's room.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
13  We shall go down it and make the acquaintance of the professor.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
14  Our guide knocked, and then ushered us into the professor's bedroom.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
15  Holmes was pacing up and down one side of the room whilst the old professor was talking.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
Example Sentence: (74 in 5 pages)
1  The professor theorized about the age of the earth.
2  One student made so bold as to argue with the professor.
3  The professor adapted his lecture to his audience.
4  The cheers of the audience drowned the professor's voice.
5  The professor angled his report to suit the audience he was speaking to.
6  He doesn't fit the traditional mould of a university professor.
7  The professor improvised a poem in the class.
8  The professor will give a demonstration in class.
9  The normal teaching load of a full professor is eight hours a week.
10  The professor has devised a new method of teaching foreign languages.
11  His professor gets a mention in the acknowledgements.
12  At the moment I'm only a mister, but I'll be a professor.
13  The professor's a radical in politics but a conservative dresser.
14  The professor told his students to relate theory with practice.
15  The professor took the students to the chemistry lab.