Examples of “grader” in a Sentence

noun A heavy construction machine used to level and smooth the ground.

• The city workers used a grader to smooth the gravel road after the storm.
• A grader slowly scraped the new parking lot until it was perfectly flat.
• The road crew brought in a grader to flatten the dirt track.

noun A person who assigns marks to schoolwork or exams.

• The teacher hired a grader to help mark the stack of final exams.
• As a part-time grader, he reads about thirty student papers every weekend.
• The grader marked her essay with helpful comments in the margin.

noun A student in a specified year of school (US usage), such as a fifth grader.

• My sister is a sixth grader and takes the bus to middle school.
• Every first grader in the class got a sticker for learning to read.
• The third graders lined up for the school bus.