Sample sentences for COLLEAGUE

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fellow worker — especially in a respected profession such as teaching, medicine, or law

colleagues = fellow workers

Dr. Evil: You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads! Now evidently my cycloptic colleague informs me that that cannot be done. Ah, what do I pay you people for, honestly? Throw me a bone here!
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997 film)
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

colleagues = fellow workers

I've not got all the morning to pass on the porch—Jem Finch, I called to find out if you and your colleagues can eat some cake.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

colleagues = fellow workers

As the officer speaks to a more senior colleague, Gita looks around the large room.
Heather Morris -- The Tattooist of Auschwitz

colleague = fellow worker

He sat down at the table with his colleague again.
Ernest Hemingway -- A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

colleague = fellow worker

He was a hospital colleague of Tomas's,
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being

colleague = fellow worker (especially in a respected profession such as teaching, medicine, or law)

In dealing with the keloids, Dr. Sasaki and his colleagues were groping in the dark, because they had no reliable literature to guide them.
John Hersey -- Hiroshima

colleagues = fellow workers

It had filled with colleagues and students and meditation teachers
Mitch Albom -- Tuesdays with Morrie

colleagues = fellow workers

Another former student who became a colleague is Caitlin Kelleher.
Randy Pausch -- The Last Lecture

colleague = fellow worker — especially in a respected profession such as teaching, medicine, or law

A few of his colleagues also complimented him.
Nicole Krauss -- The History of Love

colleagues = fellow workers

At one point he wrote his longtime friend and colleague Charles Pomerat...
Rebecca Skloot -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

colleague = fellow worker

Give your card to some colleague whose wife is better equipped than I am.
Guy de Maupassant -- The Diamond Necklace

colleague = fellow worker — especially in a respected profession such as teaching, medicine, or law

Ambady says that she and her colleagues were "totally stunned by the results,"
Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink

colleagues = fellow workers

as little as the foreman liked the man who never took siesta with his colleagues, he knew there was no better machinist on the floor.
W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game

colleagues = fellow workers

And his colleagues and subordinates would see with surprise and distress that he, the brilliant and subtle judge, was becoming confused and making mistakes.
Leo Tolstoy -- The Death of Ivan Ilych

colleagues = fellow workers — especially in a respected profession such as teaching, medicine, or law

Nonetheless, the rest of the day I watched for further occasion to approach my colleague, especially as, toward evening, I began to fancy she rather sought to avoid me.
Henry James -- The Turn of the Screw

colleague = fellow worker — especially in a respected profession such as teaching, medicine, or law

I shared them with colleagues like poet Joy Harjo, who was also having a hard time in the poetry workshops, and fiction writer Dennis Mathis, a small-town Illinois native, but whose paperback library was from the world.
Sandra Cisneros -- The House on Mango Street

colleagues = fellow workers — especially in a respected profession such as teaching, medicine, law

I do not want to find myself sharing my bed with one of your colleagues, several of whom, I have observed, have no interest in the girls we bring them.
Heather Morris -- The Tattooist of Auschwitz

colleagues = fellow workers

"I'm Cilka," Gita's new colleague says.
Heather Morris -- The Tattooist of Auschwitz

colleague = fellow worker

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