How to Use colleague in a Sentence

colleague

noun
  • A colleague of mine will be speaking at the conference.
  • How about the colleague who sits next to you at the office?
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Here are more tips on how to be a good friend or colleague.
    — Vanessa Fuhrmans, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Then, just a month and a half after the launch, Kane and three of her colleagues were fired.
    — Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 22 Feb. 2025
  • His colleague, Rachel Whetstone, seemed to like the idea.
    — Sarah Ellison, Washington Post, 11 July 2022
  • Have the whole crew sign this oversized card that will help wish your colleague all the best.
    — Michelle Manetti, Good Housekeeping, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Meanwhile, Khan and his colleagues did not have much to do.
    — Soham Mitra, Lou Robinson and Patrick Gallagher, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Many are scrambling — with help from colleagues — to find other jobs in the U.S.
    — David Folkenflik, NPR, 21 June 2025
  • Green and colleague Mary Byrne wanted to make sure those deaths weren't buried.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Read more in a deep dive story with my colleague Nick Florko.
    — Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 24 May 2022
  • And based on the stories that have emerged from friends and colleagues, that seems to have been true of Perry himself.
    — Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • An old colleague of mine used to tell me that life is too short to be low maintenance.
    — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 18 June 2022
  • Dad worked long hours and sometimes brought home colleagues.
    — Hazlitt, 7 June 2023
  • Recently, one of my colleagues sent me an email with a Fab or Flub idea.
    — Courtney Ortega, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Jan. 2024
  • One of them went so far as to disparage a white colleague’s young Black son.
    — Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Joel, who at this point is merely a colleague, follows Sam and checks in on her.
    — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Conyers saw something and called out for one of his colleagues.
    — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
  • More advice on spam texts from my colleague Nicole Nguyen here.
    — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
  • In the meantime, Jasso and her colleagues doled out hot instant soup, fresh fruit and backpacks through the slots in the fence.
    — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2025
  • This is where the big research gaps are, according to O’Connor and his colleagues.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 9 Feb. 2025
  • That someone else can be your boss, a colleague, a friend, or your favorite barista.
    — Stuf, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
  • But the third member of the group is Lexi Thompson, who has a much, much slower pace of play than her two colleagues.
    — Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 May 2025
  • Some of her colleagues, though, noted that many of the ZIP codes listed are inside cities.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
  • With input from Wang’s colleague Zhaohuan Zhu, the group worked around the clock (and in one case during a flight to Europe).
    — Quanta Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
  • If the affair partner is a colleague, then yes – changing jobs would be part of this process.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 8 May 2022
  • According to the outlet, the women were at the game to celebrate the end of the first week of classes with their colleagues.
    — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The other was a colleague of sorts in the intimate confines of a small business.
    — Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Take a friend or colleague with you on your daily coffee run.
    — Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 10 June 2022
  • All about helping his colleagues be seen as experts, promoting the players, and honoring the greats.
    — Richard Deitsch, New York Times, 22 June 2025
  • Curiosity can frame the system as a colleague rather than a cognitive crutch.
    — Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025

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