How to Use grader in a Sentence

grader

noun
  • Her students say that she's a tough grader.
  • Most of the victims were fourth graders from the same class.
    Marcela Rodrigues, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
  • Mikal Bridges in gym class with fourth graders at PS 134.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The third grader had been in a classroom just next to the rooms where the shooter holed up.
    Claire Galofaro, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2022
  • In 2021, an eighth grader at Johnson was shot and killed steps from the school.
    Lizzie Johnson, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
  • The thing is, Orion doesn’t sound like a fifth grader at all.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 1 Feb. 2024
  • When the group refused to stop, one of the robbers opened fire, striking the fourth grader in the head.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Siegel made her first 3-pointer for the Tigers as an eighth-grader.
    Dennis Victory, al, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The magic of being a middle grader doesn’t come across the same way.
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
  • There's plenty to jump up and down about for the rising first grader.
    Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Last year, more than 5,100 sixth graders took honors math.
    Talia Richman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The first arrivals: a fifth grader named Ryan Suseno and his parents.
    Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Her 10th grader didn’t see the shooting but heard the gunshots.
    Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The youngest of the brood, Jasiah is an eighth grader who stars for a team coached by his father.
    Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Just 13% of eighth graders scored at or above the proficient level.
    Cheyenne Mumphrey, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2023
  • Among those killed were at least five fourth-grade students and a third grader.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 25 May 2022
  • Finn looks young for his age, as do many in the cast, but Mike looks quite a bit older than a 9th grader.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 26 June 2022
  • The eighth graders who did poorly on the history and civics tests are already in high school.
    Joel Mathis, The Week, 5 May 2023
  • But eighth graders and freshmen waking up for school at the crack of dawn have it extra rough.
    Annie Blackman, Glamour, 17 Sep. 2024
  • While third, sixth and seventh graders slid on the test, fourth, fifth and eleventh graders improved slightly.
    Detroit Free Press, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Amy Hoffmann’s third grader spends most of the day in a classroom with 1.5 air changes per hour.
    oregonlive, 15 May 2022
  • Seventh through 12th graders will be assigned laptops to take to and from school this year.
    Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 12 Aug. 2024
  • On the first day of school, a second grader may be thrilled to know their dad thinks their outfit is cool.
    Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Biden and Prabhakar then asked the chatbot to explain the lawsuit to a first grader.
    Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 2 May 2024
  • In the fall, the girl’s father permitted her to meet the boy, a tenth grader, after school one day a week.
    Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
  • An 8th grader in Georgia was cited for a rip in her jeans.
    Mayra Cuevas, CNN, 7 July 2022
  • The three tenth graders decide to head over to Candyland Arcade around the corner.
    Alex Mar, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Parker started the year reading at the level of a first grader.
    Heather Hollingsworth, Fortune, 10 June 2023
  • The fifth grader had no access to a firearm, according to his mother.
    Aliyya Swaby, ProPublica, 14 Sep. 2024
  • The eighth and ninth graders in your life aren’t totally unknowable, though—there’s plenty of overlap between what’s trending on TikTok and what’s timeless, just with a couple of tweaks.
    Annie Blackman, Glamour, 17 Sep. 2024

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