How to Use commencement in a Sentence

commencement

noun

• A poet will speak at the commencement.
• And at the end of her four years she was invited to give the commencement speech.
  — Johanna Mayer, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2023
• On commencement day, Massey was the last of his classmates to put on his cap and gown.
  — Aaron Morrison, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2023
• On commencement day, Mr. Massey was the last of his classmates to put on his cap and gown.
  — Aaron Morrison, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2023
• Watch his full commencement speech in the video above, and skip to the 17:44 mark for his stellar sign-off.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 17 May 2018
• Stephen Hawes was the commencement speaker at the event.
  — Melanie Savage, Courant Community, 3 July 2018
• Years later, Biden spoke about the tragedy in a 2015 Yale commencement speech.
  — Marie Claire, 26 June 2019
• The length of the tax exemption ranges from 25 to 35 years, depending on the commencement date of the project.
  — Shimon Shkury, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
• O’Malley told the students in his 2002 commencement address at the D.C. school.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2019
• With fewer breaks, the school plans to wrap up about a week early, with commencement on May 20.
  — Charles Lussier, NOLA.com, 23 Oct. 2020
• Tran was in the class of 2020, so her spring commencement was virtual.
  — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 2 July 2024
• This was commencement in the age of the novel coronavirus.
  — Krista Torralva, ExpressNews.com, 15 May 2020
• Center Grove was one of the area high schools that postponed its commencement to have it in-person.
  — Arika Herron, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Apr. 2021
• In other news, Morrow discussed the initial plans for the 2021 commencement with the board.
  — Mary Jordan, Arkansas Online, 24 Feb. 2021
• For some, commencement was a time for reunions after more than a year apart.
  — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 8 May 2021
• The Olympics will need a new chief before commencement this summer.
  — Jake Dima, Washington Examiner, 12 Feb. 2021
• This is not the first time UK has gone a calendar year with no in-person commencement.
  — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 27 Oct. 2020
• James Jackson, one of the four, savored his first commencement.
  — Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 18 May 2022
• But Bloomberg wasn't the only commencement speaker to speak of a culture of untruths this week.
  — CBS News, 12 May 2018
• The school will issue housing and meal credits and plans to make a decision about commencement by the end of March.
  — USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2020
• The 2018 Coventry High School commencement was moved from the football field to the school auditorium due to the threat of rain.
  — Melanie Savage, Courant Community, 3 July 2018
• The following week the school moved online for the rest of the spring semester, and commencement was postponed.
  — Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2021
• The college crowd packed the place for the reopening June 11, just a handful of days before commencement.
  — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 11 July 2019
• Most of the work is expected to begin after the May 11 commencement.
  — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 2024
• And where, in 1988, I was invited to be the commencement speaker at my alma mater.
  — Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 25 June 2025
• The next few days in Paris will see incredible excitement with the commencement of the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
  — Vogue, 25 July 2024
• Michigan is one of the only Big Ten schools to opt for a virtual commencement.
  — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2021
• The spring commencement is on May 15 at Progressive Field.
  — Cameron Fields, cleveland, 29 Mar. 2021
• This marks the commencement of an exciting new chapter, one that Al has poured his heart and soul into.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 1 Aug. 2024
• If a debtor is found to have fraudulently transferred assets in the one year prior to the commencement of a bankruptcy case (either voluntary or involuntary), the court is required under Bankruptcy Code 727 to deny the debtor's discharge.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025