GRADUATE in a Sentence

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First they sought to know what these graduates were doing, and succeeded in getting answers from nearly two-thirds of the living.

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 Meanings and Examples of GRADUATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
graduate
 n.  one who has completed the prescribed course of study
 n.  one who has received an academicals or professional degree
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 Mitche
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)
16  The proportion of women graduates has increased in recent years.
17  The bullish projections provide a long-awaited fillip for graduates who have been struggling in a brutally competitive market since the financial crisis.
18  In a society where Qataris are outnumbered roughly seven-to-one by expatriates, long-term residents speak of a growing frustration among graduates that they are being fobbed off with sinecures while the most satisfying jobs go to foreigners.
19  Economists and poverty researchers say multiple factors may account for the increase in needy college graduates.
20  He graduated from History Department.
21  Margaret loved her graduated set of Russian hollow wooden dolls; she spent hours happily putting the smaller dolls into their larger counterparts.
22  He went to Harvard and graduated, then he got his PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan.
23  She graduated from an American college.
24  She graduated from Cambridge with a degree in law.
25  He graduated with a good degree, only to join the ranks of the unemployed.
26  Since graduating from medical school, the two doctors have taken divergent paths, one going on to become a nationally prominent surgeon, the other dedicating himself to a small family practice in his home town.
27  The sight of her son graduating filled her with pride.
28  It is such a pleasure to congratulate you on your graduation.
29  To be specific , the argument in your graduation thesis is logical.
30  I join with all your friends in offering my sincere congratulations on your graduation.