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Example sentences for "sophomores"

Lexicographically close words:
sophistications; sophistries; sophistry; sophists; sophomore; sophomoric; sophs; sopor; soporiferous; soporific
  1. While the absorbed promoters stood talking together a group of half a dozen sophomores passed them.

  2. Many of the sophomores who voted for her because of a high, but misplaced respect for you, now know their mistake.

  3. Three sophomores who overheard the remark promptly "bagged" Fred and threw him over the school yard fence.

  4. The sophomores had not been allowed to see the freshmen run at these trials.

  5. We shall meet these young sophomores in a sparkling tale of High School life and doings, ambitions and work, sports and pastimes.

  6. This year, as in previous years, the sophomores felt confident of winning.

  7. There were two sophomores there who had come over at the end of the paper chase, but neither went to the assistance of his defeated classman.

  8. There was a scene of confusion, and this probably prevented the attacking freshmen from seeing that only four sophomores were present.

  9. This had its effect, and the freshmen were almost a unit against the nine, which (and this was perhaps unusual) happened to be composed mainly of sophomores that season.

  10. The three youths were sophomores in Randall College, a well-known institution located near the town of Haddonfield, in one of our Middle Western States.

  11. If they could have seen what took place a little later in the room of Bert Bascome, the four sophomores would have had more cause than ever to regret the intimacy between Ford Fenton and some of the first-year crowd.

  12. Then, for the first time the freshmen seemed to realize that only a small number of sophomores were present--four, who were ensconced behind a table, and near an open door.

  13. A man came out of a room as the four sophomores knocked on the door.

  14. He heard the two sophomores running toward it in the thick murk.

  15. It stood directly in the rear of Webster Hall, and while Hugo regarded it, he noticed that two sophomores remained in the vicinity.

  16. When the sophomores returned, after extinguishing the flare, their cherished symbol of authority had vanished.

  17. The theft of it would require first a free-for-all with the sophomores and after a definite victory a mob assault of the gun.

  18. An angry, incredulous hum waxed to a steady pitch and waned as the sophomores dispersed.

  19. Day after day he was captured by the sophomores and commanded to dance.

  20. Within two days the sophomores discovered his religious ardor, his horror of drinking, smoking, and dancing.

  21. He took a cold shower every morning, and if the sophomores wanted to give him another one at night--all right, he was willing.

  22. The first order the sophomores often gave was, "Strip, freshman.

  23. The seniors and juniors sat in the nave, the sophomores on the right side of the transept, the freshmen on the left.

  24. He did not know when he would be seized by a howling group of sophomores and forced to make an ass of himself for their amusement.

  25. And no matter how hard he tried, the sophomores were never pleased.

  26. Do you remember, George, what Jimmie Henley said to us when we were sophomores in English Thirty-six?

  27. The sophomores recognized the timidity that some of the freshmen had in revealing their bodies, and they made full capital of it.

  28. After each song, the other classes cheered the singers, except when the sophomores and freshmen sang: they always "razzed" each other.

  29. But who told you the sophomores would be forbidden to play?

  30. You remember the practice game we played against the sophomores last week?

  31. According to my way of thinking, the sophomores played a very rough game.

  32. Now that the ball was in their hands the sophomores proceeded to show their friends and opponents a few things about playing.

  33. The sophomores were too much absorbed in the progress of their own team to trouble themselves greatly over what was happening in the freshman organization.

  34. It isn't half so wicked to play a joke on those stupid sophomores as it is to ask one's mother for money for a fountain pen, and then use the money for candy and ice cream.

  35. The sophomores hope to do something wonderful this year.

  36. The freshmen had challenged the sophomores to play against them on the first Saturday afternoon in November.

  37. So far the sophomores had gained nothing.

  38. Our game with the sophomores is set for two weeks from to-morrow; then, I believe we are to play against two teams from nearby towns.

  39. Immediately the group of sophomores decided that one of their number should ask Merriwell point-blank if a change to the English methods was contemplated.

  40. Conversation among the sophomores the next morning at school was devoted solely to the class picnic in the afternoon.

  41. I hope the sophomores win," her mother said.

  42. Whereupon they fell into a heated argument over the merits of the sophomores and juniors, a question which had been debated all year without a definite decision.

  43. The sophomores supported the affirmative and the juniors the negative.

  44. I guess I'll go along and see just how badly the sophomores are beaten.

  45. And think of it, one of the sophomores running away with the seniors play.

  46. When he was a Freshman, the Sophomores broke into his room one night, blindfolded him, and carried him off somewhere.

  47. Don't the Sophomores play all sorts of tricks on the Freshmen?

  48. What it meant to those sophomores of the class of 1909 is another gentle speculation.

  49. Three years later, when I was a senior, and those sophomores had left college, another youth and myself were idly prowling about a dormitory corridor where some of those same sophomores had previously lodged.

  50. The approach of Mortimer and the other sophomores had been so silent that no warning had been given.

  51. One of the sophomores pushed Bob and Ted over on Andy's bed, together.

  52. Already lights were beginning to glow in Lawrance and Farnam Halls, where the sophomores had their rooms.

  53. The Harvard juniors chose for nineteen years before the sophomores, and the sophomores seventeen years before the freshmen.

  54. It can bring to a mature understanding the interests which freshmen and sophomores have already acquired.

  55. In their excitement the delirious Sophomores and Juniors hang out of the windows and throw kisses wildly to these women, who grin and wave back, doubtless saying something about "them crazy students.

  56. The Freshmen were badly outplayed; the Sophomores galloped around the bases, and the babies' insolence grew with their opponents' score.

  57. The sun shown brightly on the red-brown earth of the diamond when the Freshmen, the Sophomores and the Faculty met, according to agreement.

  58. The Sophomores who saw this rejoiced that they were not in rushing clothes.

  59. Aren't you satisfied with tying up the Sophomores once without scrapping the whole year through?

  60. The Sophomores were gradually encircling their victim.

  61. But half a dozen Sophomores intercepted him.

  62. One moonlight evening in the early spring, under a cloudless sky, a party of twelve Concord College Sophomores sang these lines as they marched up the street toward the college grounds.

  63. But the articles of ornament and apparel which particularly attracted the attention of the Sophomores who approached him were his high silk hat and his heavy cane.

  64. Yet here was a Freshman, in the midst of the second term, approaching a group of Sophomores with a cane in his hand and a silk hat on his head!

  65. Nevertheless, as the Sophomores approached him he backed out into the road, retreating steadily until he came to the edge of a muddy pool of water left by the melting snows.

  66. Out on the campus was a crowd of Sophomores getting up a game of foot-ball.

  67. At Concord College one evening of Commencement week was devoted to the delivery of orations by Juniors and Sophomores in competition for prizes.

  68. Freshmen and Sophomores darted at once into the thick of the fight, while the Juniors and Seniors, moving about on the outskirts of the battleground, cheered and encouraged alternately the contending factions.

  69. I want some eels--" The sophomores pretended not to hear.

  70. I escaped from the sophomores and she brought me here.

  71. The fifty sophomores outside were waiting for something to happen.

  72. Forty or fifty sophomores loafed about the opera-house watching the caterers buzz to and fro.

  73. You'd better send your own best togs in a barrel or the sophomores will see to it that you won't have them when you want them.

  74. The sophomores never quite puzzled out how the freshman president was in his chair at the banquet, and directly in front of him in the place of honor was a huge dish of eels.

  75. It's a great note," muttered Shorty Brown, "that we have to wait on those big lubbers of sophomores and seniors.

  76. Frederick, wet and looking very bored, was still flopping about the floor, and after passing a few more remarks about rotten eggs and undignified positions, the sophomores allowed him to stand up.

  77. No one flushed more hotly than he at the jeer of the upperclassmen; no one jeered back with greater spirit when the sophomores cheered for their own class.

  78. The sophomores are giving it to the freshmen, and we must," she was rapidly reading the note, "all wear some sort of a costume.

  79. I wonder if the sophomores will clear expenses and make something for repairing the swimming pool?

  80. So we shall say no more about it, except to remark that, apparently, our sophomores this year are doing a very good job of hazing.

  81. Then the girls, sophomores and freshmen, formed a friendly circle and sang "Autumn Leaves," the alma mater song.

  82. The offending freshmen quickly vanished to their own rooms, while the three sophomores were speechless with indignation.

  83. Waiting an ominous moment to see if the threatening words had any actual effect, the three sophomores then silently left the room.

  84. When I learned that the sophomores didn't make as much money at the dance as they hoped to, I just decided to go to my father and ask him for it.

  85. Screaming and laughing, the sophomores in the lead took the freshmen running across the campus and stopped in front of the dormitory.

  86. If only, though, it didn't have to be our own particular sophomores whose seats we took.

  87. It had seemed such a fine idea, when Sim learned the sophomores had not made the amount of money necessary even to start the repairs on the swimming pool, just to go to her father and ask him for it.

  88. Then the sophomores delivered a rhyming ultimatum.

  89. Miss Anklon, "Tiddy" to the initiated, implied that as far as instructions along those lines went, the sophomores would not be long in making such matters clear to the freshmen.

  90. Blackened faces and slicked-back hair, some in tattered garments and others in borrowed finery, sophomores and freshmen crowded forward to that side of the building where hung the bell.

  91. Tis a pity if a few Sophomores can frighten us with their jokes.

  92. The Sophomores are going to pay their respects to the new girls tonight, and while there is nothing like hazing allowed here, there are all sorts of tricks played that the Faculty never takes any notice of.

  93. The Sophomores are allowed to air their new dignity this one evening, but nothing is tolerated after tonight.

  94. They were sophomores now, and could afford to look down on the green freshmen who seemed so forlorn and lonesome.

  95. I shall be ashamed of the sophomores if Margaret is not elected.

  96. I fear that I shall not be able to attend that entertainment which the sophomores are giving us.

  97. But Dolly and Elizabeth had taken good care that there should be no water at hand, so the unlucky Sophomores rushed away to their own rooms, followed by the taunting laughter of the two Freshmen and many gratuitous pieces of advice.

  98. Just before Thanksgiving time, the sophomores gave a little entertainment to the juniors.

  99. The obvious duty of every Freshie is to run errands for the Sophomores and make life as pleasant as possible for them.

  100. Commend me to Sophomores for superlative rudeness and a total disregard of the feelings of others.

  101. At half past three our fate was decided and we were declared 'Sophomores of Harvard University.

  102. The Freshmen completed the study of arithmetic, and the Sophomores did something in algebra and geometry.

  103. She'll think it too good to keep, and the sophomores will be sure to get hold of it and put it in the book of grinds for their reception--souvenirs they give you, you know.

  104. Ten of the prettiest sophomores acted as ushers, and four popular and much envied seniors presided at the frappe bowls in the four corners of the room.

  105. The few sophomores who knew anything about it were pledged to secrecy, as the grinds were never allowed to become too personal, and the freshmen treated the telegram as an amusing myth.

  106. What did the sophomores mean by clapping so?

  107. And Miss Wales, you mustn't mind if the sophomores get hold of that joke about your asking the registrar to meet you.

  108. In the gallery were the students, seniors and sophomores on one side, juniors and freshmen on the other, packed in like sardines.

  109. Everybody laughed, pushed her neighbors around for a back view, and asked the sophomores if the telegram had truly been sent, and if this was the real girl's picture.

  110. She had never mentioned the incident to anybody, but from certain annoying remarks that Mary Brooks let fall she was sure that Mary knew all about it and that the sophomores were planning to make telling use of it.

  111. They did, and the sophomores breathed again, but only for a moment.

  112. The sophomores clapped, but the freshmen smiled serenely.

  113. The novelty of the occasion appealed to the freshmen, and the more sophisticated sophomores were bound to make a reputation as gallant beaux.

  114. Why don't you try to make a few sophomores famous?

  115. All the afternoon loyal sophomores had toiled thither from the various campus houses, lugging palms, screens, portieres and pillows.

  116. By this time a knot of Sophomores surrounded Tom.

  117. The crowd of Sophomores was now so large that there was no chance for our hero and his chum to escape.

  118. In a moment other Sophomores came up, and had him.

  119. The Freshmen were made to wade in the river up to their knees, and then, with coats turned inside out, forced to dance in a ring, while the Sophomores laughed their delight, and played mouth organs.

  120. For once, these six very popular sophomores had no one else around them.

  121. When the crowd came forth from commencement exercises at the Opera House on this bright, warm June afternoon, there were not a few of the sophomores who were saying good-bye to the classic halls of instruction.

  122. Three of the cadaverous sophomores he dismissed with a glance.

  123. Leonora and I and two Sophomores have walked 'cross country every pleasant day and explored the whole neighborhood, dressed in short skirts and knit jackets and caps, and carrying shinny sticks to whack things with.

  124. There were twenty-two of us altogether, Freshmen and Sophomores and Juniors and Seniors all united in amicable accord.

  125. We made our roomless plight known and to make up for it we were told there was a vacant double in the sophomore dormitory that we might take provided no sophomores wanted it.

  126. In 1868 they established a series of prize contests, debates for sophomores and juniors, and orations for seniors.

  127. In April, 1874, three freshmen and three sophomores were suspended for hazing.

  128. These were inaugurated by the sophomores in 1843 with a programme of four orations, four dissertations, four essays, and one poem.


  129. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sophomores" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.