How to Use vocational in a Sentence

vocational

adjective
  • There were no vocational schools in Brazil that taught the craft.
    Helena Madden, Robb Report, 13 Mar. 2021
  • The program does not have the type of vocational aspect in which students hold part-time jobs.
    George Castle, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The boys were working at the business as part of a vocational program.
    cleveland, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Bernadette puts on a brown dress and gets ready for her vocational training, in a classroom at the Centre.
    Caterina Clerici & Eléonore Hamelin, Marie Claire, 1 Feb. 2019
  • College is the first choice, with vocational tracks as a fallback.
    Daniel Foster, National Review, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Betz was working in the prison's vocational tech department at the time.
    Andy Marso and Tony Rizzo, kansascity, 5 June 2018
  • If a child chooses not to go to college, the money can also be used for vocational schools.
    Ann Carrns, New York Times, 25 May 2018
  • Her father, Samuel Malakoff, was a teacher at a vocational high school.
    New York Times, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Plans for a vocational charter school in Hamilton County won't get out of the workshop.
    John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The World Bank says users of mini-grids may need microfinance and vocational training to make best use of it.
    The Economist, 12 July 2018
  • For a long time, vocational schools in the U.S. have been synonymous with manual labor; but that’s not the case in Europe.
    Stephane Kasriel, Fortune, 6 June 2019
  • That money grows tax-free and can later be used for college or vocational school.
    Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Instead of skin color, test scores and vocational tracking became a way to keep the color line.
    Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, Time, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Sliwa also believes in the need for vocational programs in New York City high schools.
    Rachel Janfaza, CNN, 2 June 2021
  • Tiger Perk is a pre-vocational job skills training program for students in grades 7-12.
    Ed Wittenberg, cleveland.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • After college, Burns returned to pleasant Ridge Park briefly to teach and coach, but left to pursue vocational ministry in the church.
    Robert Rimpson, The Courier-Journal, 12 July 2019
  • The decades long push to remove vocational training from high schools has resulted in a shortage of a skilled labor force.
    Amanda Walker, AL.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • When the priest approached the owner of a private vocational school to see about opening it to everyone, he was rebuffed.
    New York Times, 29 Dec. 2020
  • And the problem is, again, vocational education is great, but again, economists are part of that thing, which is ... the reason you’re here isn’t to work.
    Eric Johnson, Vox, 26 June 2019
  • The Harris County jail in Houston opened vocational programs to female inmates for the first time this year.
    Keri Blakinger, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Welcome to Career Watch, a vocational checkup of top actors and directors, and those who hope to get there.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 24 Dec. 2024
  • So the camp teaches these kids vocational skills in a camp-like environment.
    Lori Riley, courant.com, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The 345′s residents will be enrolled in the City of Refuge’s vocational training programs.
    Andy Peters, ajc, 9 Feb. 2021
  • My friend Hoke told me of his own vocational crisis following the election.
    Fred Bahnson, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Giles talked about building a vocational school for young people in Evanston.
    NBC News, 2 June 2021
  • The 16-year-old son is a migrant labourer—his father refused to pay for vocational training that might have helped the boy into better work.
    The Economist, 27 Mar. 2021
  • And now that list has grown to include vocational vehicles.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Members of staff from all over this large, wide-ranging vocational college have trooped down to meet the girl who wanted to learn about cutting up animals.
    Olivia Potts, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2024
  • In 1980, Lauren Sugerman was enrolled in a vocational program aimed at getting more women and Black Americans into the steel mills.
    Andrea Hsu, NPR, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The Youth Construction Academy is a vocational program designed to provide experiential learning and introduce students to the field of construction.
    Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2025

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