How to Use matriculate in a Sentence

matriculate

verb
Definition of matriculatenext
Synonyms for matriculatenext
  • Most prospects take three to four years to matriculate to the NHL level.
    — Jordan McPherson, miamiherald, 27 June 2018
  • All students in every school had to take and pass a music class in order to matriculate.
    — Rashad Shabazz, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Jan. 2020
  • He was set to matriculate at Harvard in the fall of that year, according to Miranda.
    — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2022
  • One of the major challenges of matriculating to the senior class is learning to ask for a rightful handout.
    — Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 May 2018
  • After deferring for a year, Kim matriculated with the class of 2023 last fall.
    — Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Kansas City’s offense is still good enough to matriculate the ball down the field, as evidenced by a league-best success rate of 50.7%, according to rbsdm.com.
    — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Jacob knows no one, having matriculated at the rez school, and this is Edward’s seventh time going there.
    — Vulture, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Kimmel kept moving the chains, steadily matriculating down the field.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The new study showed that’s part of it: One-third of the difference in attendance rates was because middle-class students were somewhat less likely to apply or matriculate.
    — Aatish Bhatia, New York Times, 24 July 2023
  • From there, select graduates have matriculated at US boarding/prep schools and then gone on to college.
    — Brian Straus, SI.com, 30 June 2017
  • Just as millions of first-year college students matriculate for the first time, millions of parents stand ready to transition into a new stage of parental support and guidance.
    — Peter Dunn, Indianapolis Star, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Time Just as millions of first-year college students matriculate for the first time, millions of parents stand ready to transition into a new stage of parental support and guidance.
    — Peter Dunn, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2017
  • The population of people in college peaked in 2010, the year after my class matriculated.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The Bulldogs matriculated upfield, first with the pass before finishing the drive off with three runs—punctuated by a 5-yard touchdown run by Scott.
    — Glynn A. Hill, Houston Chronicle, 28 Oct. 2017
  • The unspoken assumption that, of course, families would step up and pay — parents, really, in the case of most students hoping to matriculate straight from high school.
    — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2020
  • The proposal would apply to incoming freshmen in the fall of 2018, while those who are currently enrolled and matriculating this fall would be exempt.
    — CBS News, 12 July 2017
  • Nicholas Perera is matriculating to Alabama next year to swim.
    — John Snodgrass, Cincinnati.com, 24 Feb. 2018
  • Public schools score better Public institutions notched some of the biggest gains on U.S. News' ranking, which many students and families use to help guide their choice of where to matriculate.
    — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2023
  • As Tatis and Luis Urias and a cadre of minor league pitchers continue to matriculate, the next step for the Padres is adding veterans that not only provide an example but help provide a lot of victories.
    — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Hodge’s daughter matriculated at USC in 2013, but never played soccer for the school, prosecutors said.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Nearly 15 percent of the students flown in will be athletes who have been identified by Amherst coaches, and in many cases those athletes eventually choose to matriculate.
    — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Nearly two-thirds of dual-enrollment students who first matriculated at a four-year college earned a post-secondary award within five years after high school.
    — Lisa Ward, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2019
  • To date, Coded By has helped hundreds of alums matriculate into viable, top-earning tech careers–but Danae says that’s only a part of the organization’s overall plan.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 24 July 2024
  • But these young ladies, unlike a hapless Edith Wharton character on the hunt for a wealthy husband (who, in Wharton’s world, often turn out hapless, too), will soon matriculate to top universities around the nation.
    — Catherine Bigelow, SFChronicle.com, 1 July 2019
  • While the time required for students to matriculate through a degree program was once a concern for industries with high workforce demand, education has since evolved.
    — Chris Ball, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
  • There are also drawings and paintings that Plath, who matriculated to Smith intending to be a studio art major, created throughout her life.
    — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 30 June 2017
  • If a woman is admitted and transitions to male while a student at Spelman, the college will permit that student to continue to matriculate at and graduate from Spelman.
    — Angela Helm, The Root, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Albert Einstein was a student at the Swiss Polytechnic, matriculating at age seventeen, in 1896.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Cruz is different - a Princeton and Harvard man who not only matriculated at those fine institutions but excelled at them.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 22 Aug. 2013
  • Of course, that speaks to Sandler's audience matriculating toward middle age, which, conveniently, is precisely what the movie is about.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 14 June 2019

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