How to Use semester in a Sentence

semester

noun

• 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 first weeks of the season have seen more than enough bad plays and outstanding efforts to fill a semester’s worth of blue books.
  — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Students at Stanford began their fall semester Sept. 23, and that was the Cardinal’s first home game with a full campus.
  — Jason Jones, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
• After a few days to get readjusted, the school will pivot back into its academic work, and the district has extended the semester through late January.
  — Kathy Park, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024