How to Use undergraduate in a Sentence

undergraduate

noun
  • All the undergraduates at Harvard read the New York Times in those days.
    Joyce Carol Oates, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • An undergraduate from the lab, Lily Reisinger, built the box and set up the experiment.
    WIRED, 28 Nov. 2022
  • In other words, about 1 in 8 undergraduates changed the school in which they were enrolled last fall.
    Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • At the time, the now-governor Moore was an undergraduate studying abroad in South Africa.
    Lisa Iannucci, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Miles studied theatre at Yale twice, first as an undergraduate and then as a master’s student in the class of 1994.
    Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2022
  • With only 20 undergraduates, one of Dr. James’ first steps was halving the 60-person staff.
    Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2024
  • One undergraduate who’d been doxed told me that her parents were new immigrants to the U.S. during the 9/11 attacks, before she was born.
    Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
  • However, undergraduates cannot transfer as the deadline for the portal was in April 2023.
    Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 30 Aug. 2023
  • All of the schools chosen were considered highly selective at the time, and none had more than 6,000 undergraduates.
    Leena Kim, Town & Country, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Karjalainen wants to be on the ice at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games with undergraduate and master’s degrees from Vermont.
    Alan Blinder, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The school offers a three-year undergraduate program, which welcomes 28 acting students a year, as well as a one-year MA Theatre Lab.
    Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2023
  • Ganyard had used four years as an undergraduate, but the NCAA’s clock stops when an athlete is in military service.
    John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Up to 40 undergraduates in their junior year of college will follow a few months later.
    oregonlive, 27 July 2023
  • More than 60% of Cal State undergraduates have their tuition fully covered by aid that does not include loans.
    Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The care package inclusions that got me through my undergraduate years?
    Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 18 Oct. 2022
  • There are fewer undergraduates than there used to be, perhaps because Partch is no longer teaching.
    Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The changes were to ensure more students would receive the Pell Grant, a form of aid for undergraduates with exceptional financial need.
    Danielle Douglas-Gabriel The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The changes expanded access to the Pell Grant, a form of aid for undergraduates with exceptional financial need.
    Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
  • There, an undergraduate in Preskill’s group named Laura Lewis demonstrated a way around the obstacle.
    Quanta Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Bill Rauch became obsessed with the survival of theatre as an undergraduate at Harvard, in the early nineteen-eighties.
    Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Cooper, who last performed in theater as an undergraduate at the University of Maryland, has had a circuitous path back.
    Michael Paulson, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The shortage most directly affects undergraduates, which account for 1,919 of the students needing a bed.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Kennerson was exposed to Conrad’s novels in high school, but his passion for the writer grew as an undergraduate at Georgetown.
    Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Katherine was a teaching fellow, and Andrew was an undergraduate of twenty, a decade her junior.
    Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The campus estimates a few hundred undergraduates can spend a quarter there.
    Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
  • Several Caltech undergraduates took the courses to assess whether all concepts were covered in enough breadth and depth to pass the campus placement exams in those subjects.
    Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Paul herself quickly becomes an object of fascination for many of the students, and the stakes are raised when one of them offers Paul the use of her room to eavesdrop on conversations between the undergraduates.
    The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Butt was the director of musical studies at Kings College, Cambridge when Perkins was an undergraduate there.
    James Bash | , oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2023
  • His lab partner in his introductory classes was Lori Mills, an earnest, nerdy undergraduate with curly brown hair.
    Stephen Witt, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Angie wants to become a lawyer, and plans to major in criminology as an undergraduate, before law school.
    Mohammed Damtew, oregonlive, 23 July 2023

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