Example Sentences

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That’s the case for Ou, 20, who is majoring in human development and aging and plans to pursue a career in nursing.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

Will is a rising senior at Dartmouth College, where he is majoring in English and has served as sports editor at the Dartmouth, America's oldest college newspaper.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 13, 2025

Arshia Papari stands below the UT Tower in Austin on Aug. 6, 2024 Papari, a rising sophomore is majoring in government.

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2024

“Right now, we are not students who work, but workers who study,” said Ms. Rivera Sánchez, who is majoring in mathematics and working as a software engineering trainee.

From New York Times • May 9, 2023

My cousin has been telling me how you have been looking after some of the work of a student who is majoring in sociology, so I'm beginning to understand why you took this girl up.

From The Witness by Lutz, Grace Livingston Hill