GRADUATE in a Sentence

Learn GRADUATE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
62 example sentences for GRADUATE, such as:
1. I was completely out of money when I graduated.
2. The flying school graduates a hundred pilots a year.
3. My wife was also a graduate of the Hampton Institute.
4. Unemployment is a very real problem for graduates now.
5. Experience is a school from which you can never graduate.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of GRADUATE
graduate
 a.  of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree
 v.  make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  You are going to the University of Georgia and after you graduate you are going to manage the store for me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
2  Our instructors were oddly assorted; wandering pioneer school-teachers, stranded ministers of the Gospel, a few enthusiastic young men just out of graduate schools.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: I
3  A few instants later, his lips were pressed to the beardless, dusty, sunburnt-cheek of the youthful graduate.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  'So here you are, a graduate at last, and come home again,' said Nikolai Petrovitch, touching Arkady now on the shoulder, now on the knee.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  He was learned, a purist, exact, a graduate of the Polytechnic, a close student, and at the same time, thoughtful "even to chimaeras," so his friends said.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
6  My wife was also a graduate of the Hampton Institute.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX.
7  First they sought to know what these graduates were doing, and succeeded in getting answers from nearly two-thirds of the living.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VI
8  Colored college-bred men have worked side by side with white college graduates at Hampton; almost from the beginning the backbone of Tuskegee's teaching force has been formed of graduates from Fisk and Atlanta.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VI
9  At the time of the visits of these Hampton friends the number of teachers at Tuskegee had increased considerably, and the most of the new teachers were graduates of the Hampton Institute.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI.
10  Our graduates go to work in every section of the South, and whatever knowledge might be obtained in the library would serve to assist in the elevation of the whole Negro race.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XII.
11  This speaking of small gifts reminds me to say that very few Tuskegee graduates fail to send us an annual contribution.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XII.
12  We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the school is to be judged by its graduates.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII.
13  Wherever our graduates go, the changes which soon begin to appear in the buying of land, improving homes, saving money, in education, and in high moral characters are remarkable.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII.
14  The direct testimony was in almost all cases corroborated by the reports of the colleges where they graduated, so that in the main the reports were worthy of credence.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VI
15  I was completely out of money when I graduated.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV.
Example Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1  If you aspire to a career in professional sports, please enroll in a graduate program in sports management.
2  In order to earn a graduate degree from many of our universities, a candidate is frequently required to prepare a dissertation on some scholarly subject.
3  He is preparing a treatise on the Elizabethan playwrights for his graduate degree.
4  Only half of Newark's high school students graduate, and half of those do so through a special test for those who flunk the standard proficiency exam.
5  At Stanford University, department of linguistics is a language center of research and teaching, with 20 faculty members, over 40 graduate students.
6  After five weeks of rigorous studying, the graduate settled in for a weekend of plebeian socializing and television watching.
7  Experience is a school from which you can never graduate.
8  She was in graduate school, studying for a master's degree in social work.
9  Here's to the happy graduate for the job you have already done.
10  Lu was on track to graduate with a master's degree next year; she had already laid the groundwork for a career.
11  The employment agency exists to match up graduates and IT companies.
12  She has inspired a whole generation of fashion school graduates.
13  The flying school graduates a hundred pilots a year.
14  The course is designed to prepare graduates for management careers.
15  Unemployment is a very real problem for graduates now.