How to Use course in a Sentence

course

1 of 2 noun
Definition of coursenext
Synonyms for coursenext
  • The pilot brought the plane back on course.
  • The ship was blown off course by a storm.
  • There is no cure, but the treatment will slow the course of the disease.
  • Students earn the degree after a two-year course of study.
  • She's taking a chemistry course this semester.
  • The Lakers, of course, and his dad made the bet and won.
    — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Happy with the win and the three points that go with it, of course.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 22 July 2023
  • There’s more, of course, in the vein of those coming athwart of fate.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The world has changed, of course, around these shows, which date back to the dawn of the medium.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
  • But of course, Rob couldn't let Owen get away with all the fun.
    — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 5 Aug. 2023
  • And of course the great thing about a movie: no hangover the next day.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The Browns did take Thomas of course, at No. 3 overall.
    — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The lesson should resonate across the course of the season.
    — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Jan. 2024
  • And that song, of course, got a second life thanks to Kill Bill.
    — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The best course forward is to pursue a change in state law.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2023
  • And of course both of us want to make sure that the many hostages who've been taken come home.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Prince William, of course, was there with his wife and wore a black tuxedo.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The key, of course, is to give your cat a place to scratch that both of you find acceptable.
    — Mary Jo Dilonardo, Treehugger, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Over the course of just four weeks, the band recorded some basic tracks.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2023
  • This, of course, is nowhere near Bieber's first hand tattoo.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The main spacecraft fired its thrusters and set a course for the asteroid Apophis.
    — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2023
  • This has always been true of all watches, of course, so why the need to point it out?
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2024
  • And of course there are people who would like to postpone the inevitable.
    — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The economies of scale are, of course, unique to the microcosm of exotic cars.
    — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 22 July 2023
  • And of course a fight breaks out at end of Narbonne-Banning.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • For the solar eclipse, of course, which will send a shadow of the moon across the entire U.S. and beyond.
    — Jamie Carter, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The right response in both cases is, of course, to get over yourself.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2024
  • And then, of course, City Lights, which has that sublime ending.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Mendes is no stranger to hitting up fashion week, of course.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Not if you get cut, of course, but the adrenaline of hearing your name is like. . .
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
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course

2 of 2 verb
  • Tears were coursing down his cheeks.
  • The chair lurched as the first shock of 2,300 volts coursed through Weber's body.
    — Tribune Media Services, al, 5 Jan. 2020
  • There are a wide range of emotions coursing through the halls of CNN.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 6 June 2023
  • When in doubt, err on the side of caution, slow down and course correct.
    — John Hall, Forbes, 1 May 2022
  • Up close, it is coursed with rivulets, beaded and pearled with droplets.
    — Taymour Soomro Scott Conarroe, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • At least 2–3 times throughout the 24 hours, use a fork or spoon to course through the mixture atop the cheesecloth.
    — Gabriele Regalbuto, Fox News, 6 July 2023
  • Or course such a stay comes with a White Lotus-worthy price tag.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Or was the rage hiding in plain sight, coursing beneath the surface of even this placid scene?
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
  • But what if more water than that comes coursing down from the mountains?
    — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
  • There’s a clear incentive for the Saudis to course correct.
    — Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2021
  • To the south, in the basin that once held Tulare Lake, the floodwater was still coursing through rivers and canals toward the old lake bed.
    — Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023
  • The load of water waiting to course downhill dwarfs what is there already.
    — Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2023
  • The bank’s failure set off a chain reaction that has coursed through the global banking system in the weeks since.
    — Jeanna Smialek, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
  • In sum, nearly all the forces that will course through 2022 are running through Ohio—and landing squarely in the Tim Ryan campaign.
    — Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Like blood from a beating heart, the infections in Qom coursed out across Iran in maps later shared by the Health Ministry.
    — Fox News, 17 Mar. 2020
  • And a rush of momentum would soon course through their collective veins.
    — oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Flash flooding in the area swamped cars, homes, and some businesses, as raging waters coursed through streets and yards.
    — Sarah Raza, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Water began to course through the loop, moving with a low, vibrating hum.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The blood of each nation courses through the American vein and feeds the spirit that compels us to involve ourselves in the fate of this good earth.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Oct. 2023
  • But while bleaker themes course through on some parts of the album, this is a band that can’t escape its own ebullience elsewhere.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The Cheat River courses through one of the largest undammed watersheds in the eastern United States.
    — Cincinnati.com, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Some videos, like the ones in the Guitar Lessons for Curious Guitarists course, run from 10 minutes to about 53 minutes.
    — Ellen McAlpine, CNN Underscored, 28 Dec. 2020
  • The sky over Capitan Peak was going from orange and pink to deep blue and black, and long skeins of sandhill cranes coursed overhead.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Some spirit seemed to course through their horns, erupting and dispersing.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • You should be concerned; however, there is time to course correct.
    — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Her body grows weaker and weaker as the poison courses through her little fish body.
    — Kathryn Kvas, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The reservoir is formed by a hydroelectric power plant, the final of a series on the Dnieper River, which courses through the heart of Ukraine.
    — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Ro plans on keeping these benefits even as the pandemic changes course, with vaccines rolling out across the U.S.
    — Ann-Marie Alcántara, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Or the reverberation coursing through your body when striking the first chord on a guitar?
    — Gen Cleary, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2023
  • Surely, Messi himself is aware of this stat and will be determined to course correct.
    — Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023

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