PUPIL in a Sentence

Learn PUPIL 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.
150 example sentences for PUPIL, such as:
1. Like teacher, like pupil.
2. The pupil didn't listen to his teacher.
3. I think you would if you had Laurie for a pupil.
4. The pupil leaned to the ground to pick up a wallet.
5. Let go hand in a noisy streets, find the pupil picture.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PUPIL
pupil
 n.  a young person attending school (up through senior high school)
 n.  a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution
Classic Sentence: (94 in 7 pages)
1  I think you would if you had Laurie for a pupil.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
2  I take it as a good omen for the future and invite you to my wedding on the spot, answered Mr. Brooke, who felt at peace with all mankind, even his mischievous pupil.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
3  Let them hear how much you have improved, said Laurie, with pardonable pride in his promising pupil.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
4  Of this preparation a tolerably abundant plateful was apportioned to each pupil.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  I remained an inmate of its walls, after its regeneration, for eight years: six as pupil, and two as teacher; and in both capacities I bear my testimony to its value and importance.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  I found my pupil sufficiently docile, though disinclined to apply: she had not been used to regular occupation of any kind.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
7  Pain, shame, ire, impatience, disgust, detestation, seemed momentarily to hold a quivering conflict in the large pupil dilating under his ebon eyebrow.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  If, in the moments I and my pupil spent with him, I lacked spirits and sank into inevitable dejection, he became even gay.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
9  Mary would sit and watch me by the hour together: then she would take lessons; and a docile, intelligent, assiduous pupil she made.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
10  The task was done, not free from further blunders; but the pupil claimed a reward, and received at least five kisses; which, however, he generously returned.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  When this slight disagreement was over, they were friends again, and as busy as possible in their several occupations of pupil and teacher.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
12  If he could have known how nearly the compliment lost him his pupil, I doubt if he would have paid it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIII
13  If he had shown indifference as a master, I have no doubt I should have returned the compliment as a pupil; he gave me no such excuse, and each of us did the other justice.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIV
14  I was excessively anxious to get Mr. Micawber away; and replied, with my hat in my hand, and a very red face, I have no doubt, that I was a pupil at Doctor Strong's.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP
15  Put this and that together, my tender pupil,' returned the wary Mowcher, touching her nose, 'work it by the rule of Secrets in all trades, and the product will give you the desired result.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
Example Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1  He wants each pupil to have the chance to discover hidden talents.
2  The headmaster decided to make an example of the pupil and expel him from the school.
3  The pupil leaned to the ground to pick up a wallet.
4  The pupil didn't listen to his teacher.
5  Let go hand in a noisy streets, find the pupil picture.
6  Clear and bright pupil, the MI, long eyelash tremble slightly, white flawless skin with light pink, thin lips like rose petals delicate drips.
7  Like teacher, like pupil.
8  The teacher threatened to kick the impudent pupil out of the room.
9  The headmaster has made a decision of suspension of a pupil from school.
10  The pupil did not need to spend much time studying, for he had a retentive mind and remembered all he read.
11  If she is in a position to give satisfactory references as to character and competency, a situation can be offered her where there is but one pupil, a little girl, less than ten years of age.
12  The teacher suggested the tall pupil as monitor to assist in routine duties.
13  The most fabulously wealthy real-estate developer in New York would search for a young pupil to whom he could impart his boundless wisdom.
14  The school strives to treat pupils as individuals and to help each one to achieve their full potential.
15  The school governors have absolute discretion over which pupils they admit.