How to Use major in in a Sentence

major in

phrasal verb
  • Woods went on to play in all four majors in the 2024 season.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Hisham’s love for it had moved Tahseen to major in the same.
    — Rozina Ali, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Noni was white, a Jew from a small town in Iowa who’d majored in fine arts.
    — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Priya Krishna wrote about menus as a French major in college.
    — Terence McGinley, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Amherst will be the first liberal arts college in the country with its own major in the field.
    — Pawan Dhingra, The Conversation, 21 May 2024
  • Calhoun hit 31 homers in the minors and majors in the season when he was traded.
    — Jeff Fletcher, Orange County Register, 18 May 2024
  • McIlroy has now been second four times in majors in the past seven years.
    — Sally Jenkins, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
  • The groom is a helicopter pilot major in the Royal Brunei Air Force — and the wedding isn’t over just yet.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Lance went to Harvard, majoring in English, and would go on to a 40-year career at Time.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 12 Dec. 2024
  • A lot of young people probably know of someone who majored in CS and then went on to some big tech firm.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 8 July 2024
  • Each of the past 12 winners had won a major or finished second at a major in his career.
    — Matt Bonesteel, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
  • There’s such a transition that goes from minor chords in the verses to major in the choruses.
    — Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Schauffele became the first player to win two majors in a season and not be voted player of the year since the award began in 1990.
    — Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Meanwhile, the six majors in the men’s and women’s divisions have all been won by separate runners, which has spread the wealth around.
    — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 3 Nov. 2024
  • For example, Luk majors in aerial straps, while Van Nyhuis is a trapeze artist.
    — Doc Louallen, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Brody Miller: Over This is not an overreaction to Schauffele winning two majors in a year.
    — Brody Miller, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
  • When Bigge committed to play baseball and major in physics at Harvard as a two-way player, a path to the big leagues and a pro career wasn’t at the forefront of his long-term plans.
    — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2024
  • Maayan, a major in the unit whose last name the IDF said cannot be published for security reasons, said searches of the tunnels have so far yielded no sign of the hostages.
    — NBC News, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Like Yang, Rogers was still semi-closeted at the time and not majoring in performance.
    — Sarah Burke, Them, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Minjee Lee will seek to defend her title at the longest-running major in women's golf.
    — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 5 July 2023
  • Eurosport majors in cycling, tennis, winter and fight sports – coverage of which will port to TNT.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 27 Jan. 2025
  • At Iowa State, Trice majored in animal husbandry and competed on both the freshman track and football teams.
    — Joshua Kagavi, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
  • For example, graduate students majoring in AI have a mighty stake in which topics are hot and which are not.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
  • With this title, Djokovic won three majors in a year for the fourth time in his career, his only loss coming to Carlos Alcaraz in five sets at Wimbledon.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Kaminsky was a history major in college, and working at a camp led her to accounting.
    — Bysheryl Estrada, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Levy was a diplomacy major in high school and later volunteered once a week at a kindergarten for African refugees in southern Israel for 10 months.
    — Eve Glover, Fox News, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Amal Clooney is a certified barrister by day, and majors in dazzling eveningwear by night.
    — Alex Kessler, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Dan founded it after majoring in art with a sculpture minor and falling in love with metal work.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Maxwell Eller has gotten something simpler from his major in classics.
    — Jon Marcus, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Harvard does not offer a business major only a major in economics.
    — Gerald Bradshaw, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2025

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