How to Use student body in a Sentence

student body

noun
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  • The whole student body are thus to be punished for the actions of just a few.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 22 Sep. 2024
  • The student body is now more than half Latino and about 30% Black.
    — Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The student body is small, so adults in the building know every child’s name.
    — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2024
  • In the next swipe, Bieber appeared in the Burn Book — a diary used to trash talk members of the student body.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Wasatch has a team drawn from the rest of its student body that competes against Utah high schools.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The Greenport drill was not imposed on the school’s staff or student body.
    — New York Times, 28 June 2022
  • The name was selected by the student body from a list of choices.
    — Fox News, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Every Friday the school met at the chapel, and somebody from the student body had to share something.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 6 Feb. 2024
  • But once again, a growing order and student body had the sisters in search of a new home.
    — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The makeup of the student body depends on the state of current affairs when the students apply.
    — Stefania D'ignoti, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Nov. 2023
  • But one of the friends took a screen shot of the photo and started circulating it among the student body.
    — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Here’s a look at the current demographics of the student bodies of the Ivy League schools.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2023
  • The yell leaders, elected by the Aggies’ student body, lead the band and fans in what amounts to a late-night pep rally at Kyle Field.
    — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Still, families see the makeup of the student body as an asset.
    — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The candidates had to deliver speeches in front of the student body.
    — Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The student body is one of the most diverse of any college in the area, and unique as well for being largely working class.
    — Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The fighting in the community appears to be trickling down to the student body as well.
    — Laura Meckler, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
  • In the second episode of Wednesday, Nevermore's student body takes part in the Poe Cup, a.k.a a boat race where there aren't any rules.
    — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 2 Dec. 2022
  • A third of the student body at Mosaic Prep live in shelters, and 95% are low-income.
    — Meg Oliver, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2021
  • At the time, the school was worried that vehicular traffic was a threat to its student body.
    — Ryan Gillespie, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2023
  • In the fall of 2021, UCLA championed the demographics of its new student body.
    — Janell Ross, Time, 1 July 2023
  • But what’s striking about the student body of Yu Ming is how many students aren’t Chinese.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2022
  • When Collin committed to the small college in February 2022, word of the new classmate spread across the student body.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2023
  • This year, he was elected the class student body president.
    — Glenn Graham, Baltimore Sun, 31 Mar. 2023
  • There's a lot of potential in the idea of Wednesday Addams forced to try and fit into a student body of snooty rich kids.
    — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The college said students of color make up 43 percent of its student body.
    — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
  • As part of the Guardian statement, the student body says that multiple news outlets refused to print it.
    — Matthew Salesses, TIME, 7 May 2024
  • Marvella was the first girl at Enid High to be elected president of the student body.
    — IndyStar, 20 June 2022
  • That school, with 340 students, was among the first Southern law schools to integrate its student body.
    — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2022
  • That gift helped spur changes in the student body, which now has more low-income students and greater racial diversity.
    — Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 8 July 2024

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