How to Use major in in a Sentence

major in

phrasal verb
  • Hisham’s love for it had moved Tahseen to major in the same.
    Rozina Ali, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Noni was white, a Jew from a small town in Iowa who’d majored in fine arts.
    Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Priya Krishna wrote about menus as a French major in college.
    Terence McGinley, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Amherst will be the first liberal arts college in the country with its own major in the field.
    Pawan Dhingra, The Conversation, 21 May 2024
  • Calhoun hit 31 homers in the minors and majors in the season when he was traded.
    Jeff Fletcher, Orange County Register, 18 May 2024
  • McIlroy has now been second four times in majors in the past seven years.
    Sally Jenkins, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
  • The groom is a helicopter pilot major in the Royal Brunei Air Force — and the wedding isn’t over just yet.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2024
  • A lot of young people probably know of someone who majored in CS and then went on to some big tech firm.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 8 July 2024
  • Each of the past 12 winners had won a major or finished second at a major in his career.
    Matt Bonesteel, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
  • For example, Luk majors in aerial straps, while Van Nyhuis is a trapeze artist.
    Doc Louallen, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2024
  • When Bigge committed to play baseball and major in physics at Harvard as a two-way player, a path to the big leagues and a pro career wasn’t at the forefront of his long-term plans.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2024
  • Maayan, a major in the unit whose last name the IDF said cannot be published for security reasons, said searches of the tunnels have so far yielded no sign of the hostages.
    NBC News, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Like Yang, Rogers was still semi-closeted at the time and not majoring in performance.
    Sarah Burke, Them, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Minjee Lee will seek to defend her title at the longest-running major in women's golf.
    Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 5 July 2023
  • At Iowa State, Trice majored in animal husbandry and competed on both the freshman track and football teams.
    Joshua Kagavi, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
  • With this title, Djokovic won three majors in a year for the fourth time in his career, his only loss coming to Carlos Alcaraz in five sets at Wimbledon.
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Kaminsky was a history major in college, and working at a camp led her to accounting.
    Bysheryl Estrada, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Amal Clooney is a certified barrister by day, and majors in dazzling eveningwear by night.
    Alex Kessler, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The next great breakup-song connoisseur is being forced to major in business for practical reasons.
    Meghana Indurti, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Djokovic was attempting to become the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to complete a calendar-year Grand Slam by winning all four majors in a single season.
    Howard Fendrich, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Thea scholarships are awarded based solely on talent, not on test scores, grade-point averages or intent to major in the arts.
    The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Neil promoted McGuffey to major in 2013, a year after he was elected sheriff.
    Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 1 Apr. 2024
  • And that can then set a stronger foundation for a STEM major in college and a high-paying career after graduation.
    Talia Richman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2023
  • McKenna grew up in segregated New Orleans, a high achiever who majored in math and became a math teacher.
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Many job postings require, or at least prefer, applicants to have majored in a related field.
    Emma Whitford, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
  • That culminated in attending the school, majoring in finance, and trying to walk on the Mountaineers’ football team.
    Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2024
  • For most of the time she’s been famous, Earle has been a full-time student, majoring in marketing at the University of Miami.
    Véronique Hyland, ELLE, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Webster, 31, is a student who is majoring in biology, which helped lead to her interest in Kennedy.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 1 Aug. 2024
  • But that is of little consolation to her and her friends: Of her six roommates from university, who majored in different subjects, four of them have still not found jobs.
    Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 17 June 2023
  • Ken was pursuing a double major in English and computer science, while Mindy Boam was a theater major.
    Jacqueline Weiss, Peoplemag, 3 Sep. 2023

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