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Example sentences for "exam"

Lexicographically close words:
exaltations; exalted; exalteth; exalting; exalts; examin; examinant; examinate; examination; examinations
  1. The day after to-morrow, the 13th, Oswald has the viva voce exam for his matriculation.

  2. This morning, while Dora was having her exam (she passed with Distinction), I went to the cemetery quite alone.

  3. We've all majored in English except Jack, and I'll bet any one of us can give the others an exam offhand that they can't pass.

  4. A girl that works at the press copied down the exam and gave it to him.

  5. They found him in his room telling a mob of excited classmates that he hadn't seen the exam but that Harry Smithson had.

  6. Kanang bár tsikin pid ra nà nímu, The bar exam is too easy for you.

  7. Muiksámin ku ugmà, I’m going to have an exam tomorrow.

  8. Hápit nang irilis ang risulta sa bar, The results of the bar exam are about to be released.

  9. Makaguul ang risulta sa iksámin, The results of the exam are depressing.

  10. Dihà pa siya mutuun nga hápit na ang iksámin, He only started to study when it was nearly exam time.

  11. I’d never have been able to play in the game to-morrow if he hadn’t held that exam off the way he did.

  12. So I argued that the only way to do was to have the exam postponed.

  13. You're a bit of a smith already, man; go to the workshops, and read up in your spare time for the entrance exam to the Technical.

  14. I've passed my entrance exam for the Technical--hurrah!

  15. I took the exam at New Haven, one afternoon.

  16. I applied last October and took the exam a couple of weeks before coming here on this visit.

  17. They talked a little of his exam and of his prospects.

  18. The exam results came to them at Rochefort, rich in grottoes, that notable town of the Ardennes.

  19. You'll get through the exam all right; you know you always do," protested Van Blake as he flipped a scrap of blotting paper across the study table at his roommate.

  20. When you fall down on an exam the rest of us better give up.

  21. My dad wanted me to get into Peter Stuyvesant High School—you know, the genius factory, city-wide competitive exam to get in.

  22. Sometimes the day before an exam he’d be sitting around for hours, buying people cokes and acting as if he hadn’t a care in the world.

  23. Not in person but a recording, anyway M'Clare is on Earth surrounded by exam papers.

  24. Then I remember he is back on Earth buried in Exam papers and conclude I am having a hallucination.

  25. But then came the discovery of that miserable exam paper.

  26. Why for the Dominican, of course; you don't suppose I want one of your cast-off exam papers, do you?

  27. The fellows say he stole an exam paper, the blackguards!

  28. For in the Nightingale exam he had not really tried his best, but this time he would and astonish everybody.

  29. I've got to do my exam before ten to-morrow.

  30. He would be up at six next morning, and make one last desperate dash at his exam paper.

  31. A six-hour exam in two parts, it seemed explicitly designed to separate the wheat from the chaff.

  32. What's his rotten old exam got to do with me?

  33. It was the ghost of that exam that wouldn't be laid--the prophetic vision of the row that waited for him, grinding its teeth.

  34. I went up for my exam because you fired me.

  35. I don't care a hang about the exam now," Jim blurted out.

  36. I shan't go back to Pitt Hall till your exam is over," Mark said.

  37. The level of this exam has decreased year after year and only the preparatory schools for the Grande Ecoles continue to insist on verifying diligence and attention.

  38. Taine was well placed to know about the system since he was first in the competetive entrance exam (concours) to the École Normale Superior, and had also passed all his other studies with great brilliance.

  39. I was characteristically happy, and although I knew not what news my physical exam would unveil, I felt no need to punish the doctor for doing his job; he deserved a smile too.

  40. Seated at my favorite table with books and papers sprawled casually about, I was studying for an exam between frequent sips of coffee and sight-saving glances around the room.

  41. I could always take the civil service exam to try to be a postman.

  42. The first test, being somewhat of a midterm exam and covering a great deal of the text and lecture material, was given after about two weeks; I need not say, perhaps, that I found the class to be quite exhilarating.

  43. A final exam and a project were the only remaining obligations of the class, leaving two English courses as my sole exertions for the rest of the quarter.

  44. There was a window open, so in I went and found exam questions all over the table.

  45. What do you know about our exam subjects?

  46. And about those exam questions--Mavis and I wouldn't have dreamt of looking them up beforehand, and I don't suppose we should have known them.

  47. They say that fellows who never look at a book or take a note in class often go to a seminar and, providing they have good memories, are able to answer enough questions on the exam paper the next morning to get through with colors flying.

  48. The night before the Fine Arts exam I went to what is called a "Seminar" in that subject.

  49. It was after the hour exam in English 68, and we were all in Bobbie's room comparing notes.

  50. I just wish Dad had that exam to buck against," he muttered.

  51. And," he added as the clock in School Hall tower rang eleven, "I wish you'd settle my Latin exam as easily!

  52. We were talking to him this morning, Hilda and I and Selby-Harrison, outside the exam hall.

  53. Didn't you know we were in for an exam this morning?

  54. I am happy to announce that I have passed the pons asinorum of Bar Exam with facility of a needle penetrating the camel's eye.

  55. Why--don't you have some kind of physical exam every few weeks?

  56. Speedy work on Sergeant Major Canwick: he painted his scar with some kind of grease paint, took his physical exam without a shiver, and was home again.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exam" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    audition; exam; examination; final; hearing; honor; oral; quiz; test; trial


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    examine the; examining magistrate; examining the