How to Use teacher in a Sentence

teacher

noun
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  • She is a first-grade teacher.
  • Experience is a good teacher.
  • One of the favorite teachers in our school got laid off.
    — Celeste Katz, Glamour, 13 Sep. 2018
  • Every class has to have a teacher and a room for every hour of the day.
    — Robert Hutton, Bloomberg.com, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Make a first week of school survival gift for teachers.
    — Nadine Jolie Courtney, Good Housekeeping, 23 July 2018
  • Just look back online and see the name of a first pet or a first-grade teacher.
    — Chelsea Jarvie and Karen Renaud, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Year after year our teachers are asked to do more with less.
    — Holly Yan, CNN, 8 May 2018
  • Wooley praised the teachers and staffers on the school response groups, too.
    — Al Gaspeny, arkansasonline.com, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The budget cuts drew fury from the city's teachers and police unions.
    — Adam Shaw, Fox News, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The teachers might like them, but the bats have drawn ridicule on social media.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 12 Apr. 2018
  • My drama teacher at my deaf school saw the casting call and sent it to my mom.
    — Joe McGovern, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Wooden signs with numbered grades and teacher names were hung above the doors.
    — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Clark said the teacher played the song for multiple classes that day.
    — Ken Lemon, ajc, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Rachael was the teacher with a soft heart, who liked to help troubled students.
    — CBS News, 11 Dec. 2021
  • To get them back on track, the teacher asks them earnestly what mariachi means to them.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The proposal will not force teachers to work longer hours or for less pay.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Stay in those cohorts—one teacher and one class all day.
    — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 22 Aug. 2020
  • Blackmore, the daughter of a dairy farmer and school teacher, grew up on a farm and rode ponies.
    — Steve Douglas, ajc, 10 Apr. 2021
  • When Kate spoke again, her voice was her teacher voice.
    — Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Large numbers of teacher absences were not solely at the two high schools.
    — oregonlive, 7 Jan. 2022
  • His father was a high school teacher and strict with his children.
    — Daniel E. Slotnik, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2018
  • The choir room is being used by a consumer science teacher.
    — Cynthia Howell, Arkansas Online, 1 Sep. 2021
  • North had been the class monitor during my first two semesters as a teacher.
    — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Retention from year to year of students and teachers is high.
    — Alan J. Borsuk, Journal Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The school’s website lists her as a second-grade teacher.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2022
  • It’s more teachers, doctors, lawyers and jobs like that.
    — Drew Davison, star-telegram, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Hastings was a part-time employee, not a teacher at the school.
    — cleveland, 24 May 2022
  • Milich says the governor's claims on teacher pay are wrong.
    — CBS News, 16 Mar. 2018
  • His sixth-grade teacher had two records, just lying around the classroom.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 23 Mar. 2020
  • Hard, but fair, like a final exam from a very good teacher.
    — Leigh Montville, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2022

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