How to Use tutor in a Sentence

tutor

1 of 2 noun
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  • I got a tutor to help me with my homework.
  • He is a tutor in European history.
  • The tutor studied Gonzo’s nose, long but not as long as the nose of the Muppet with the same name.
    — Martín Espada, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Bleu learned sign language with the help of a tutor in roughly three weeks—no easy feat.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 6 June 2022
  • This summer, 12-year-old Tahlynn Carlisle has been seeing a tutor three days a week.
    — Meg Oliver, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Seneca was the tutor of Nero, who was Claudius’ successor and his stepson.
    — Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • Hurlock said the school agreed to remove his daughter from the classroom and paid for a remote tutor.
    — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 10 Sep. 2022
  • And dozens of start-ups pitched AI assistants, avatars, coaches, and tutors.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The Fairy Godmother is replaced by Alidoro, a philosopher and tutor to the Prince.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 7 Apr. 2022
  • In one classroom, 18 third graders were assigned to a single teacher, so Senkbeil stepped in as a tutor.
    — Koby Levin and Isabel Lohman, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 2022
  • With Brainfuse, students can talk with a tutor through a live chat from 2 p.m. to midnight, seven days a week.
    — Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 15 Sep. 2022
  • But things fall apart when Cory gets grounded for poor grades and is forced to work with a tutor, a studious classmate named Sunna.
    — Karen MacPherson, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Roach, a 23-year-old tutor from Toronto, was the show's youngest major champion.
    — David Bauder, ajc, 9 May 2022
  • Roach, a 23-year-old tutor from Toronto, was the show’s youngest major champion.
    — David Bauder, Hartford Courant, 9 May 2022
  • The tutor’s words have been edited for brevity and clarity.
    — Andrew Zucker, Town & Country, 3 Aug. 2023
  • His family had sent him to study with a private tutor in Padua.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
  • When the program lost its computer science tutor, Lewis’ boss asked her to fill in — at her driver’s wage.
    — Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Four staffers, including a teacher and a tutor, chatted with them about colors and shapes.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 2022
  • And, having stayed in touch with his erstwhile tutor over the years, he has been bequeathed her papers and modest library.
    — Toby Lichtig, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Our rural public school in the town of Ridgway agreed, and two mornings a week the twins stayed home and connected by video with a tutor in Chengdu.
    — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • Students log in through their school district and connect with a tutor even if English was not their first language.
    — Tom Vander Ark, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The program currently has 32 tutors hired but would like to hire eight more to be at full capacity.
    — Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Aug. 2023
  • How many tutors will be working with what percentage of students now through June?
    — Sari Hitchins, Parents, 17 Jan. 2024
  • When the farmer takes his family to seek their fortune in the far country of his ancestors, the girl flees to her tutor’s shabby quarters.
    — Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2023
  • There were 10 students on the roster for Cabello and tutor Ananna Ahamed.
    — Howard Blumestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
  • While the researchers said this does not mean AI is preferable to one-to-one feedback from a skilled tutor, this is not always available for trainee teachers.
    — Nick Morrison, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Colin takes on a role as her confidence tutor, which perhaps works a little too well.
    — Laura Zornosa, Time, 16 Dec. 2022
  • There may even be room for chatbots to act as personalized tutors for ASU students, said Jones.
    — Emilia David, The Verge, 18 Jan. 2024
  • But, a tutor's role is to augment the learning experience, not replace it.
    — Tim Bajarin, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Larson began one of the best nonprofits in the city, the Playtime Project, and got tutors and volunteers to come in and help the kids get the tiniest taste of the childhood they were supposed to be having.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
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tutor

2 of 2 verb
  • She earned extra money tutoring in the evening.
  • Whitcraft would like to tutor at least four students a day.
    — Corbett Smith, Dallas News, 1 Jan. 2021
  • In the book, Kevin is a writer, and he is hired by Tom to tutor Rufus, who had been pulled from school.
    — Felecia Wellington Radel, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The plan was for his aunt, a high school teacher, to tutor him, relatives said.
    — Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 27 June 2022
  • Now his mission is to take a bunch of young players and mold them, mentor them, train them and tutor them.
    — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 19 May 2021
  • By the spring of 1969, Simons was going regularly to the boy’s house to tutor him.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Huggs hired him early on in his tenure, to tutor the likes of Corie Blount.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 6 Jan. 2020
  • One of them, Alex, was bilingual, so his job became to tutor me for half an hour every day in French.
    — Celina Caesar-Chavannes, refinery29.com, 28 Jan. 2021
  • My mom signed me up through one of our church programs to help tutor another child who was blind.
    — Claire Goodman, Houston Chronicle, 16 Aug. 2020
  • Jane spent years, until the very end of her life, tutoring Asian students in English.
    — courant.com, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Tech Pals is looking for tech-savvy volunteers along the Front Range to tutor seniors over the phone and via video chat services.
    — Megan Webber, The Denver Post, 2 May 2020
  • Meanwhile, the Wrights couldn’t find a suitable school to meet Mike’s considerable needs, so he was tutored at home.
    — Anne Kadet, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2020
  • As a boy in Texas, Roseberry was tutored in drawing by his mother, Fran, an artist.
    — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Forced to tutor students at a school, a young delinquent falls for a minister’s daughter.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
  • When the No Child Left Behind law was first passed in 2001, schools got extra money to tutor students who were behind.
    — al, 25 Aug. 2021
  • In this case, officials were tutored by SVB on how to use banking to spark innovation on the home front.
    — John Engen, Quartz, 15 Mar. 2023
  • His commander asked him to tutor his 12-year-old brother.
    — Serhiy Morgunov, Washington Post, 27 July 2022
  • Whether Lonnie would dissuade his grandson from hustling or tutor him on how to do.
    — Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Boyle has tutored a steady stream of major college signees and current NBA players.
    — Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Claire takes a special interest in Eric, agreeing to tutor him for the SAT, for free, outside school.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
  • For instance, her daughter had been tutored for years by an engineer turned stay-at-home dad.
    — Suzanne Cope, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Dolan, a teacher, gave up tutoring this summer to attend the trial.
    — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Amy Nichols, who has had autoimmune issues, had tutored Trapp's son.
    — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Needing to improve his English, he was tutored by his future wife, Mary E. Civale.
    — courant.com, 15 July 2019
  • While still in Germany he had been hired to tutor a young Estonian refugee named Ruth Mikkelsaar; the two married in 1950.
    — Clay Risen, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Kian, her roommate and fellow PhD student, offers to tutor her.
    — Ali Hazelwood, Washington Post, 26 May 2022
  • Much of the money was unspent because not all teachers wanted to tutor along with their classroom duties.
    — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • To the extent possible, the same person should consistently tutor the same child, and that person must be trained.
    — Talia Richman, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Just look at who Harbaugh has tutored during his long and diverse coaching career.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
  • According to the outlet, investigators said that Yoo-jung posed as a mother on a tutoring app, who was searching for someone to teach her daughter English.
    — Corin Cesaric, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023

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