Put the word pupil in a sentence

Synonym: scholar, schoolchild, student. Antonym: master. Similar words: cupid, stupid, jupiter, top up, keep up, crop up, slap-up, step up. Meaning: [‘pjuːpl]  n. 1. a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution 2. contractile aperture in the iris of the eye 3. a young person attending school (up through senior high school). 

Sentences ending with pupil

• He had been to the hanging-gardens that morning early to visit Nitetis, but had been refused entrance by the guards, and the blue lily seemed now to offer him another chance of seeing and speaking to his beloved pupil. [10]
• She was afraid to speak about it; but she glared at them aslant, with the look of a biting horse when his eyes follow one sideways until they are all white but one little vicious spark of pupil. [6]
• It was possible they would find her an apt pupil. [11]
• Ani pointed to the dwarf, and said politely: «Your pupil. [10]
• Monks were pacing silently up and down the corridors that surrounded it, and one after another raised his shaven head higher over his white cowl, to cast a look at the new pupil. [10]
• During this late period Heinrich Brugsch developed in the linguistic department of Egyptology what I had gained from Lepsius and by my own industry, and I gladly term myself his pupil. [10]
• Hartmann had been not only his friend but his pupil—and what a pupil! [10]
• We waited five nerve-straining minutes—ten minutes —how long it did seem!—and then came a click that was as familiar to me as a human voice; for Clarence had been my own pupil. [5]
• There is still much to be done to-day, and first of all I must confute the objections of your recalcitrant pupil. [10]
• Perhaps this delight in Germanism went too far in many respects; it fostered hatred and scorn of everything «foreign,» and was the cause of the long hair and cap, pike and broad shirt collar worn by many a pupil. [10]

Short sentences using pupil

• Michael Angelo’s pupil! [10]

More example sentences with the word pupil in them

• As for his young pupil, she has often thought of being a teacher herself, so that she is of course very glad to acquire any accomplishment that may be useful to her in that capacity. [6]
• The albino-style carries with it a wide pupil and a sensitive retina. [6]
• A bright pupil will learn to get the outline of a human figure in ten lessons, the model coming five hundred feet nearer each time. [6]
• The sober-minded, sensible, well-instructed Dr. Butts was not a little exercised in mind by the demands made upon his knowledge by his young friend, and for the time being his pupil, Miss Lurida Vincent. [6]
• Dandified, or, as we should now term them, «dudish» affairs, were not allowed at Keilhau; so various witticisms were made which culminated when a pupil of about our own age from a city on the Weser called us Berlin pomade-pots. [10]
• Only it was vexatious that he found it so hard to make himself intelligible to people, but this too was soon to be remedied, for the pupil obtained two companions. [10]
• I made a very nice picture of that man’s house and I wanted to offer it to him for ten francs, but that wouldn’t answer, seeing I was the pupil of such a master, so I sold it to him for a hundred. [5]
• Nitetis, however, had understood him thoroughly, and answered: «My mother Ladice was the pupil of Pythagoras, and has told me something like this already; but the Egyptian priests consider such views to be sacrilegious, and call their originators despisers of the gods. [10]
• For the first two years Costa had remained far in advance of his pupil, then he was compelled to defend himself in good earnest, and now it not unfrequently happened that the smith vanquished the scholar. [10]
• The great men, to whom he offered himself as a pupil, required years of persevering study. [10]
• These words from Titian had ennobled his work; they echoed loudly in his soul, and the measure of his bliss threatened to overflow, when no less a personage than the famous Paolo Veronese, invited him to come to his studio as a pupil on Saturday. [10]
• From time to time Mr. Satterlee had mentioned his pupil to the judge, whose mind had immediately flown to her when the vacancy occurred. [9]
• It is not till a pupil has learned to sit steady and worry himself over his work for six hours on end that I begin to believe he will ever do any good work. [10]
• When Froebel, in the spring of 1817, resigned his position, his friend Langethal begged him to take his brother Eduard as another pupil, and thus Pestalozzi’s enthusiastic disciple and comrade found his dearest wish fulfilled. [10]
• Philotas of Amphissa, the pupil of Didymus, had been the first to inform them of the attack and, with fiery zeal, had used his utmost power to atone for the wrong done to his master’s granddaughter. [10]
• The pupil impresses the proportions on his mind. [10]
• The smallest and the largest pupil was free, for he was permitted to be wholly and entirely his natural self, so long as he kept within the limits imposed by the existing laws. [10]
• The pupil, nay the friend of the learned Groot, the young wife who had grown up in the society of highly educated men, the enthusiastic patriot, felt that she was capable of being more, far more to her husband, than he asked. [10]
• She knew from the dead man that he had met his dear Madrid pupil, and her first visit was to the latter. [10]
• It would appear that whenever you ask a public-school pupil when a thing—anything, no matter what—happened,and he is in doubt, he always rips out his 1492. [5]
• He has already sent Philotas—his pupil, who finds and unrolls his books—a dozen times to inquire the cause of the tumult outside; but I replied that the crowds were flocking to the harbour on account of the Queen. [10]
• There is no school in which a pupil gets on so fast, as that in which Kit became a scholar when he gave Barbara the kiss. [12]
• Presently the priest said: «I never had a pupil whose teasing was so pleasant, poor humourist that I am. [11]
• When the public-school pupil wrestles with the political features of the Great Republic, they throw him sometimes: A bill becomes a law when the President vetoes it. [5]
• Holmes, John, a pupil of Emerson, 50. [6]
• I will not pretend that it needed the Landlady’s sagacious guess about the Young Astronomer and his pupil to open my eyes to certain possibilities, if not probabilities, in that direction. [6]
• Isn’t it reasonably possible that in our schools many of the questions in all studies are several miles ahead of where the pupil is?—that he is set to struggle with things that are ludicrously beyond his present reach, hopelessly beyond his present strength? [5]
• They descended from one to another: Ludo’s and mine had come down from Martin and another pupil who left the school at the same time. [10]
• Often the prose of the young scholar, who as a pupil of Doctor Groot had won his bride in Delft, rose to a lofty flight. [10]
• It was that of the mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. [6]
• For the life of me I could see no farther than a desire to keep me as his pupil, since he was well paid for his tuition. [9]
• An ocellus consists of a spot within a ring of another colour, like the pupil within the iris, but the central spot is often surrounded by additional concentric zones. [1]
• Thereby the parents of a Keilhau pupil were far better informed in many respects than those of our gymnasiasts, who so often yield to the temptation of estimating their sons’ work by the greater or less number of errors in their Latin exercises. [10]
• True, she had not urged Eva to a definite statement by so much as a single word, yet she had made her feel plainly how deeply it would wound her if her pupil should resolve to disappoint the hopes which she herself had fostered. [10]
• He ranked the Netherlander above Titian and the other great Italian artists, called him the worthy friend of gods and kings, and encouraged his pupil to imitate him. [10]
• Let me introduce Mr Abel Garland, sir—his young master; my articled pupil, sir, and most particular friend:—my most particular friend, sir,’ repeated the Notary, drawing out his silk handkerchief and flourishing it about his face. [12]
• I had the misfortune of being for more than two years a pupil under the government of the first head-master, and the good luck of spending nearly the same length of time under the charge of his successor. [10]
• The keen-witted, brilliant man, who had been one of her best teachers and with whom, when a pupil, she had had many an argument, was kindly received, and fulfilled his commission with consummate skill. [10]
• Then the old man, from whom the youth had not averted his eyes for an instant, beckoned, and Cagliari called him, saying that he, the gallant Antonio Moor’s pupil, must now show what he could do; the Master, Titian, would give him a task. [10]
• Master Gridley had made a careful study of his old pupil since they had resided in the same village. [6]
• You are no longer a pupil, but a rising artist. [10]
• Both Croesus and Kassandane were pleased and satisfied with their new daughter and pupil, and Oropastes extolled her talents and industry daily to Cambyses. [10]
• The monks employed in the school soon noticed the ill terms, on which the new pupil stood with his companions, and did not lack reasons for shaking their heads over him. [10]
• In a town in the interior of New York, a few years ago, a gentleman set forth a mathematical problem and proposed to give a prize to every public-school pupil who should furnish the correct solution of it. [5]
• She would inspire in patient and pupil confidence in her earnestness, her history is evidence that she would not fail of that. [5]
• What interested him in all this talk was that, in discovering the mind of the governess, he was getting nearer to the mind of her pupil. [4]
• As soon as I could use my foot again I became an industrious and docile pupil under Cilo. [10]
• At the rotunda his pupil had done his business better than his master could have expected, but Pollux was by no means satisfied with his own arrangements. [10]
• In Florence he heard Sebastiano Filippi—who had been a pupil of Michael Angelo-praised as a good drawer; so he sought him in Ferrara and found him ready to teach him what he still lacked. [10]
• At the entrance-gate he raised his eyes and caught sight of his former pupil Darius. [10]
• His pupil, after he had accomplished the easy transfer of his parents, had returned to the palace, and there, to his delight, came across Mastor, who soon fetched him the garments and masks that he had lent the day before to Hadrian and Antinous. [10]
• But wherever I have met an old pupil of Keilhau, I have found in him the same love for the institute, have seen his eyes sparkle more brightly when we talked of Langethal, Middendorf, and Barop. [10]
• It would not have been the right thing to proclaim the fact while she was a pupil, but now that she had finished her course of instruction there was no need of making a secret of the engagement. [6]
• Your pupil Navarrete has become faithless to you and the noble art of painting. [10]
• Yet departure was hard for him on Sophonisba’s account; but precisely because he felt that she was more to him than a beloved pupil and daughter, he had resolved to hasten his leave-taking. [10]
• How often she had described such an end to her pupil as the fairest reward for the sacrifices in which convent life was so rich! [10]
• Moses, the Hebrew, had been his pupil, and never had he instructed a nobler nature, a youth more richly endowed with all the gifts of intellect. [10]
• The fact is, gentlemen,’ he added, turning again to the Notary and his pupil, ‘that I am in a very painful and wholly unexpected position. [12]
• But the old gentleman was very fond of his pupil, and had ordered him, Pliryx, to go to Olympus, who, ever since he could remember, had been the family physician. [10]
• The Greek governess gave her pupil much good advice, and added her «maternal» blessing with her whole heart. [10]
• John Sylvester John Gardiner, once a pupil of the famous Dr. Parr, was then the leading Episcopal clergyman of Boston. [6]
• The court-artist obtained from the latter a promise to present his pupil Navarrete to the grey-Haired prince of artists. [10]
• In this way Froebel, whose own notes, collected from different sources, we are here following, hopes to guard against a defective or misdirected education; for what the pupil knows and can do has sprung, as it were, from his own brain. [10]
• This pleased Wolf, for he had a right to call himself, not only the pupil, but the friend of the director of the orchestra. [10]
• I had scarce felt his Lordship’s wrist than I knew I had to deal with a pupil of Angelo. [9]
• If Master Bernard felt a natural gratitude to his young pupil for saving him from an imminent peril, he was in a state of infinite perplexity to know why he should have needed such aid. [6]
• He was, in fact, an apt pupil and a pilot of very high class. [5]
• When he had examined it sufficiently, he held out his hand to his pupil, saying warmly: «I always said so; you are an artist! [10]
• Ten blue tickets equalled a red one, and could be exchanged for it; ten red tickets equalled a yellow one; for ten yellow tickets the superintendent gave a very plainly bound Bible (worth forty cents in those easy times) to the pupil. [5]
• The court-artist might easily shrink from coming in contact with the pupil of Moor, who had now lost the sovereign’s favor. [10]
• The pupil sets down with his pencil just what he sees,—no more. [6]
• Then, Sainte-Helene had been the soldier-priest’s pupil. [11]
• The teacher had been lulled to sleep by the increasing heat and the pervading scent of flowers, and her pupil had ceased to write. [10]
• So she had become his pupil, his friend. [10]
• This pupil, Mina Bahadur Rana, is not a commonplace person, but a man of distinguished capacities and attainments, and, apparently, he had a fine worldly career in front of him. [5]
• When he staid away the old man missed his pupil, and Scherau’s happiest hours were those which he passed at his side. [10]
• He had failed as yet in getting any positive evidence that there was any relation between Elsie and the schoolmaster other than such as might exist unsuspected and unblamed between a teacher and his pupil. [6]
• Constantine was an apt pupil, and Gorgo would sit quiet while he took her likeness, till, out of twenty images that he had made of her, several were really very like. [10]
• In the earliest and embryonic stage of professional development, any violent impression on the instructor’s mind is apt to be followed by some lasting effect on that of the pupil. [3]
• In my presence, and before I know not how many others, Didymus distinguished this Arius as his most beloved pupil. [10]
• Friedrich Froebel had also pronounced esteem for manual labour to be genuinely and originally German, and therefore each pupil was assigned a place where he could wield spades and pickaxes, roll stones, sow, and reap. [10]
• With the world-conquering Alexander, the world-embracing Aristotle, appropriating anatomy and physiology, among his manifold spoils of study, marched abreast of his royal pupil to wider conquests. [3]
• The terms finally agreed upon specified a fee to Bixby of five hundred dollars, one hundred down, the balance when the pupil had completed the course and was earning money. [5]
• He supported himself against the wall of the court, and opened the papyrus-roll handed to him by his favorite pupil, the young Anana. [10]
• You have proved a very inapt pupil in the art of dissimulation and disguise in my royal sister’s service. [10]
• She had put a stop to the lessons, and the reason she had assigned for this insulting step was that Paula had dictated to her pupil long sentences out of her Orthodox Greek prayerbook. [10]
• The business of a school like this is to make useful working physicians, and to succeed in this it is almost as important not to overcrowd the mind of the pupil with merely curious knowledge as it is to store it with useful information. [3]
• The writer was a pupil of the Museum, and had been taken in the stadium, where he was boasting of his exploit. [10]
• If I were a public-school pupil I would put those other studies aside and stick to analysis; for, after all, it is the thing to spread your mind. [5]
• There is, undoubtedly, a keen pleasure and an ample reward in teaching a pupil as apt and as eager to learn as Honora. [9]

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