How to Use graduate in a Sentence

graduate

1 of 3 verb
Definition of graduatenext
Synonyms for graduatenext
  • He joined the navy after graduating from high school.
  • He joined the navy after graduating high school.
  • The word has graduated from slang to accepted use.
  • My nephew has graduated from baby food to solid food.
  • She graduated with a degree in history.
  • They both graduated with honors.
  • He graduated from the university last June.
  • Jolie-Pitt is expected to graduate with the class of 2026.
    — Liz Calvario, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The third year of high school marks the beginning of the end, the countdown months — in less than two years, your child will be graduated and gone.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • DeSantis, who graduated from Yale in 2001, joins the calls about once a month.
    — Hadriana Lowenkron, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2023
  • He was focused on graduating from high school and for the most part had stayed out of trouble, his mother said.
    — Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Since graduating film school, it’s been nine years of grinding away, chipping away, trying to write The One.
    — Vulture, 15 May 2023
  • Those three are also set to compete for the starting job in 2024, when Bradley and Trotter have graduated.
    — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 6 Aug. 2023
  • And sometimes a teacher may have graduated from a teacher prep school but just hasn’t yet passed the subject-area test.
    — Tcrain, al, 16 June 2023
  • Based on the 2016 novel of the same name, the film follows a woman called Lily who moves to a new city after graduating from college and falls in love with a man named Ryle.
    — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 16 May 2023
  • Melton was active in youth sports in Hoover and went on to play as an offensive linebacker in high school, graduating from Hoover High in 2012.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 26 July 2023
  • Tens of thousands of young people have graduated from them.
    — Shibani Mahtani, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
  • Mater Dei fans shouldn’t panic that Brown is graduating.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Moves that start with a Phoenix Shift and a Magic Burst graduate into more complex strings adorned by perfect dodges, counters, and parries.
    — Joshua Khan, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2023
  • All of the kickers have served as the understudy, waiting patiently until the kicker ahead of them graduates.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Very few of us, maybe just like two or three, actually graduated high school.
    — Scooty Nickerson, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
  • His assessment raised troubling questions for high school students, who must pass the MCAS in order to graduate.
    — Mandy McLaren, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
  • To Connie, the law makes little sense in Lazarus’ case: Lazarus had graduated from the police academy and been found fit and competent enough to carry a gun.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The other kids — Jon and ex-wife Kate Gosselin’s sextuplets — graduated from high school.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 9 June 2023
  • Students who have fallen behind by eighth grade are less likely to succeed in high school and graduate on time, teachers and researchers say.
    — Ben Chapman, WSJ, 21 June 2023
  • Wilcox is taking over the reins from her former teammate on the gridiron and hardwood, Kali Hibbert, who graduated this past spring and was the quarterback for the past two years.
    — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The first was an Emmy juggernaut, and a big enough hit to graduate from miniseries to ongoing, even though there wasn’t any story left to tell for a second season.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2024
  • While some of that talent graduated, the ECC always has entertaining teams with big goals.
    — James Weber, The Enquirer, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Killed were an 18-year-old student who graduated Tuesday and a 36-year-old man who had attended the ceremony at a theater near the park.
    — Sara Smart, CNN, 6 June 2023
  • Kate graduated in 2005 with a degree in art history and a budding relationship with the prince.
    — arkansasonline.com, 22 Mar. 2024
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graduate

2 of 3 noun
  • Count the 2017 West Aurora graduate among the rarest of the rare.
    — Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2023
  • The trade school boasts that over 43% of graduates go on to open their own businesses.
    — Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
  • To get close to the Salmon, two graduate students and I took a six-seater bush plane inland from the Arctic coast.
    — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The graduate student scored a team-high 16 points and added 11 assists.
    — Ron Counts, Idaho Statesman, 7 Feb. 2024
  • All the 2020 Hobart graduate had to do was stop thinking about it.
    — Dave Melton, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2023
  • LeBron James is the proud father of a high school graduate.
    — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 27 May 2023
  • Other graduates went on to careers at 1789, the Willard Hotel and Kinkead’s brasserie.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • So why was a first-year graduate student getting to stand in for an expert?
    — Jt Torres, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Getting up to speed felt like a return to my graduate student years.
    — Debbie G. Senesky, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • At 6-foot-4, the graduate transfer brings size to Auburn’s wide receiver corps.
    — Ainslie Lee | [email protected], al, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Elder graduate and 11-year pro Jake McQuaide is the team's long snapper and is in his first season with Detroit.
    — The Enquirer, 11 Jan. 2024
  • But off-screen, Lewison is a recent graduate of USC who loves to bake, play video games, hit the gym, eat like a king and wander around nostalgic places.
    — Julia Carmel, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
  • Reynolds, a 1989 John Carroll graduate, spent the last three seasons as Patriots head coach.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 14 July 2023
  • Many graduates starting out don’t focus on their student loans and put the debt on pause through forbearance.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
  • The hotel group will pick four 2023 graduates for its brand-new Victory Lap program.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 12 June 2023
  • The strong criticism from Huntsman, a 1987 graduate and former UPenn trustee, comes amid a growing backlash from donors and trustees.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The college graduate has an interest in film like his father.
    — Emy Lacroix, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2024
  • But the idea goes back decades, and was finally made possible in 2009 by Craig Gentry, then a Stanford graduate student.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Dec. 2023
  • And college graduates with student loan debt at the age of 30 have half the retirement savings of those without student debt, on average.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2023
  • In graduate school, Griffin never had a professor of color and women were few.
    — Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times, 14 May 2023
  • Any aggregate list will give an incomplete look at what graduates can expect to earn.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 28 May 2023
  • There’s also student debt, which has prompted many recent graduates to move home with their parents.
    — Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 14 May 2023
  • Still, one of his graduate students is currently researching if coloring the tips of a plane’s wings black could reduce fuel use.
    — Zayna Syed, Popular Science, 21 June 2023
  • The author is a Los Angeles native who works in the tech industry and is a first-generation college graduate.
    — Christine Soderlund, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Ken Fisher Fisher, a high school dropout turned college graduate, took $250 to start Fisher Investments.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Meanwhile adults without a college degree are nearly twice as likely to smoke weed than college graduates.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Antoinette Troupe, a West Side High graduate, said she’s seen the school from multiple perspectives as a parent, volunteer, staff member and a neighbor.
    — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • In Palestine, 52% of computer science graduates are women—but 83% of those grads are unemployed in a region with the highest youth unemployment in the world.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The silver lining in 2023’s endless cloud is that this was the year the scales fell from most people’s eyes about the realities of American education, from kindergarten through graduate school.
    — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Morrison had been Oppenheimer’s graduate student at Berkeley in the late 1930s.
    — TIME, 8 Mar. 2024
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graduate

3 of 3 adjective
  • He is taking graduate classes at the university.
  • The two actors met as graduate students at the Yale School of Drama in the 1980s.
    — Nasha Smith, Peoplemag, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Moreira brought Richter and Robertson, friends of his from graduate school, in on the project.
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2022
  • There was a fund to pay African Americans to go to graduate school out of state.
    — Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Rhodes and Knoop, who are couple, both moved to Reno in the fall and are attending graduate school.
    — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Banks is a graduate transfer who played in 36 games for Ohio State, starting 14 of them.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Birch and a few graduate students had been reading and discussing a draft of Humphrey’s new book.
    — Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Borrowers with loans from graduate school will still have to pay 10%.
    — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The big night from Burke, a graduate transfer from Notre Dame, happened to occur the day before his birthday.
    — Andrew Mahoney, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Some colleges bucked that, like SUU, which saw a 9.8% increase in graduate students.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Both Bates and Hunter Jr. are graduate students at Butler.
    — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The three-essay thesis soon proved the rule at M.I.T. and other graduate departments.
    — Michael M. Weinstein, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Reid played for Edwards and later was a graduate assistant coach on his staff.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 July 2023
  • Luis gave up on graduate school, for fear of condemning himself to years of online classes.
    — Eric Klinenberg, TIME, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The writers of the letter included five recent graduate students who worked in Dr. Dias’s lab.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The graduate transfer has 24 points this season and the game Friday marked her seventh multi-point performance of the season.
    — Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Frank, eight years Robert’s junior, wept when his older brother left for graduate school in Europe.
    — Kc Cole, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Jones, a graduate transfer from Ole Miss, was slow to get up after tackling running back Zach Evans for a 4-yard gain with less than nine minutes to play in the first quarter.
    — The Courier-Journal, 1 Oct. 2022
  • So what’s this system that has sped up five years of research into a week and made graduate students obsolete?
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Then, clients spend two weeks living on campus in order to be matched with dogs whose skills best suit their needs before the dogs finally graduate from the program.
    — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The villa became a study retreat for graduate students and others.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
  • Annette Rodriguez was a graduate fellow at the center toward the end of this period.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Another 70 or so graduate students are focused on the field.
    — Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2023
  • For graduate students, the Snow and Avalanche Lab combines study and research to help learners better understand and predict snow events.
    — Steve Larese, Outside Online, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Her job was to set up a training program for graduate students who would help tenants overcome the obsessions that set them up for eviction.
    — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Young, a graduate transfer from Northwestern, had 12 rebounds and added to the quest for perfection by making all six free-throw attempts.
    — Bob Sutton, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Before getting sick in March 2020, Garvin worked as a storyboard artist and a touring musician as a member of the Courtneys, and Mayer was in graduate school.
    — Sandhya Kambhampati, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The graduate transfer was three-year starter at defensive specialist and libero at Baylor.
    — Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Diana got pregnant in art school during a fling with a glassblower; Alice dropped out of graduate school to marry Doug, then had Holly.
    — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Curated by graduate students from the school’s masters program for fashion and textile studies, the show features 50 era-spanning garments and accessories.
    — John Wogan Juliet Izon Gisela Williams Lindsey Tramuta Julia Halperin Jameson Montgomery, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024

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