How to Use junior college in a Sentence

junior college

noun
  • The girls have enrolled in school — the two eldest in junior college.
    CBS News, 28 Oct. 2022
  • About 70 went to freshmen and the rest went to junior college transfers.
    Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
  • The school expanded, with the addition of a girls' school and a junior college.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 11 May 2022
  • The junior college transfer has 13 points, two steals and one block in 22 minutes.
    Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 13 Dec. 2021
  • His father played junior college football, and the two bonded over the sport.
    oregonlive, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Becoming the starting punter for the Ducks is at the very least ahead of schedule for the junior college transfer.
    oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2022
  • White calls his time in junior college the most crucial part of his journey to the NFL playoffs.
    Andrés Soto, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2024
  • Thomas committed to the Bearcats, wound up making the grades, and avoided going to a junior college, at least for a while.
    Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Dec. 2021
  • White was a no-star recruit, who worked his way from Division II to junior college to the Pac-12.
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2022
  • But her players at Mesabi Range, a junior college in Virginia, Minn., have been more awestruck.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2022
  • And last month, junior college transfer Koron Davis was dismissed from the team.
    The Courier-Journal, 4 Jan. 2024
  • From walk-on to scout team to junior college and back to Georgia to lead the Bulldogs to the national championship.
    Ryne Dennis, USA TODAY, 21 July 2022
  • His first season was a grayshirt year, the junior college equivalent of a redshirt.
    Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2022
  • Next up: junior college, where he was set to play basketball again.
    Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2023
  • But by his father’s count, Allen did it once in junior college, twice at Wyoming and four times since the Bills drafted him seventh overall in 2018.
    Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The band’s drummer quit right before a show at a junior college, and the drummer from another band on the bill sat in — Darrell Crofts, known as Dash.
    New York Times, 7 June 2022
  • One of the biggest names left on the board is 247Sports four-star defensive lineman Jeffrey M’ba, the nation’s No. 1 junior college prospect.
    oregonlive, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Of its 33 signees, only three were junior college players.
    Evan Dudley, al, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Tracy was gang raped by four football players — two from Oregon State, one from a junior college and one a high school prospect — in 1998.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Bigger than most that his junior college teammates had seen.
    Andrés Soto, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2024
  • All but one of their 20 selections were from college or junior college.
    Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 21 July 2022
  • Thomas first had to make the cultural adjustment from junior college to Utah, and also learn the offense.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Pierre has played junior college basketball the past two seasons.
    Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Collier became the first player since Bryce Harper to leave high school two years early, play a year at a junior college and enter the draft at 17.
    Dave Clark, The Enquirer, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The show, about a mother and daughter who attend the same junior college, marked the acting debut of Mo’Nique, then known as a stand-up comedian.
    Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2022
  • For the second time in the draft, the Brewers reached into the junior college ranks to pull a physical right-handed pitcher with plenty of upside.
    Curt Hogg, Journal Sentinel, 18 July 2022
  • Young, who transferred from a junior college, played 13 snaps against Bethune-Cookman but has not played at receiver since.
    Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2022
  • For the remaining three years of the show, his hair was its natural brown, as Dobie progressed from Central High School to a junior college.
    Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Scrubb is trying to make the unusual jump from junior college to a permanent NBA role and the Celtics can see his potential.
    Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
  • Taylor was one of the best junior college players in Florida this season.
    Greg McKenna, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023

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