How to Use Phi Beta Kappa in a Sentence

Phi Beta Kappa

noun

• He's a Phi Beta Kappa.
• She belongs to Phi Beta Kappa.
• He made Phi Beta Kappa his sophomore year.
• Pepper, as he was called, was also Phi Beta Kappa, contender for the Heisman, and the president of his class.
  — John McPhee, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
• The man in our living room that night was erudite and chatty — especially after my mother pointed out his Phi Beta Kappa key.
  — New York Times, 5 Aug. 2022
• Jane graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Swarthmore and was fiercely literary.
  — Susan Keselenko Coll, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2020
• Jane is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
  — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
• Born in Brooklyn in 1932, Davis graduated Phi Beta Kappa from New York University before earning his law degree from Harvard.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 22 June 2026
• At the University of California, Berkeley, McNamara made Phi Beta Kappa in his sophomore year and became a member of the Order of the Golden Bear, a quasi-secret society dedicated to promoting leadership within the student body.
  — Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025