How to Use fraternity in a Sentence

fraternity

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  • These men make up a tragic fraternity of strangers, linked by their common ends.
    — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2022
  • At least one fraternity and an off-campus home are on College Avenue.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The magazine eventually settled with the dean, as well as with the fraternity and its members.
    — Deanna Paul, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Devin Booker is among the Kentucky men's basketball fraternity that always looks out for its young Wildcats.
    — Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The result is an atmosphere of intense homoeroticism, as palpable as that found in any fraternity, barracks, or locker room.
    — Ed Halter, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The modern, three-story building is surrounded by fraternity houses and other homes converted into off-campus housing.
    — Gregory Yee, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Chapin lived about 200 yards away, across the band field, at the Sigma Chi fraternity house and was spending the night.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • The Tokyo Olympics was a triumph for openness and fraternity, and in the process, a tribute to the host country.
    — John Lee, National Review, 6 Feb. 2022
  • The divine nine is the name for the group of the nine Black fraternities and sororities that exist in The United States.
    — Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • On the one-year mark of his death, the fraternity plans to plant a tree in his memory outside the chapter house.
    — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Chapin was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, which has a frat house about 200 yards away.
    — Fox News, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The first traces back to a party at the Phi Delta Theta fraternity in October 2019.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2022
  • Now on the outside, the growing ranks of exonerees have formed a unique fraternity.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Sigma Chi, the fraternity Chapin belonged to, has its flag at half-staff.
    — Kendall Coughlin, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2022
  • On the night of April 30, the fraternity hosted an event in downtown Cleveland.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 12 May 2022
  • This leads the duo to fraternity parties, slam poetry nights and to events at spring break.
    — New York Times, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Chapin and Kernodle were about 200 yards from the crime scene at a party in the Sigma Chi fraternity house, where Chapin was a member.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Chapin, Kernodle's boyfriend, lived in a fraternity house 200 yards away and was sleeping over.
    — Fox News, 10 Dec. 2022
  • Kicking is a fraternity of its own, but a football team needs one kicker at a time.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 2022
  • The team was a small fraternity of eight or so men who ate lunch together in a special trailer.
    — Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Indeed, that is how members of that lethal fraternity see him.
    — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The tweet included three photographs of Fraser, one of which pictured him standing with a group of peers on the grounds of the MSU fraternity house.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Charlie Duke is part of a tiny fraternity that’s getting even smaller: People who walked on the moon.
    — Jay Reeves, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Samuel Knight, his fraternity brother in the San Diego chapter said this is part of Logan’s legacy.
    — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Other fraternity members took Oakes and the other pledges outside to throw up on the lawn, but Oakes did not throw up, according to the lawsuit.
    — Michelle Watson, CNN, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The student was in Nashville with his Delta Chi fraternity members.
    — Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The fraternity did not respond to a request for comment.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 10 June 2022
  • In a memorial post on their social media account, the team shared that the college student was on a trip with his fraternity at the time of his death.
    — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Indeed, the members of the actual Second Klan showed up on campus in late 1922 and formed a fraternity.
    — courant.com, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Director Ethan Berger has spoken a lot about you being fully immersed in the character and doing your own field research by going to different fraternities and parties.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 17 Oct. 2024

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