In a sentence
Six example sentences with colleague, each labelled with its topic.
A colleague down the corridor solved the calibration problem in an afternoon after her lab had struggled with it for months.
Science
She and a colleague split the drawings, one taking the tower and the other every service floor below it.
Architecture
A colleague covered the wedding when his flight was canceled, and the couple never knew two different people had shot it.
Photography
A colleague on the night shift spotted the wrong dosage on the chart minutes before the drip was hung.
Medicine
She asked a colleague from the tax department to read the contract, since the trust clause was outside her expertise.
Law
The senator crossed the aisle to thank a colleague who had voted for her bill against his own party's wishes.
Politics
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