How to Use vocational in a Sentence

vocational

adjective

• The program does not have the type of vocational aspect in which students hold part-time jobs.
  — George Castle, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2022
• College is the first choice, with vocational tracks as a fallback.
  — Daniel Foster, National Review, 13 Oct. 2022
• 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
• El Roi Haiti, a Christian charity, runs a school for children as well as a vocational training center for adults.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 31 July 2023
• Team members tried to talk to the youth, who claimed they were armed with makeshift weapons created inside the school and tools from the construction-trade vocational classroom, according to the press release.
  — Molly Walsh | [e-mail], cleveland, 26 Oct. 2022
• Last week, Goodwill launched a prepaid tuition program that will cover 100% of the cost of college or vocational school for all its employees, both full- and part-time.
  — Kate Santich, Orlando Sentinel, 6 May 2022
• That mirrors interest in vocational training seen around the state and country.
  — Jenna Russell, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• In 1842, the vocational school opened, followed by a mill, brickyard, farm and church, to encourage self-reliance and education.
  — Natalie Preddie, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
• Zitzka knew this was the right career path ever since a vocational teacher at his high school—now one of Zitzka’s fellow union members—introduced his class to the trade.
  — Fortune, 21 Mar. 2022
• As part of his plea agreement, Lopez has agreed to obtain his GED or high school diploma and complete a vocational program as well as any treatment programs available to him while in custody.
  — Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 13 Feb. 2024
• The college could use that new revenue to cut tuition and attract more students towards its high-paying vocational programs.
  — Preston Cooper, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
• The bill would also restore student benefits up to age 22 for children of disabled or deceased workers if the child is a full-time student in college or a vocational school.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 2 Aug. 2022
• The event raised more than $1 million to support the museum’s vocational education programs for at-risk youth.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2022
• Sixty two percent of them hadn’t attained a high school diploma, while most of them had less than five years of employment history or vocational training.
  — Jaden Edison, Hartford Courant, 18 Feb. 2023
• While Pribilski is an indie film and TV actress by trade who is curious about beef, Pryles' ties to the industry are more vocational.
  — Emma Balter, Chron, 9 Aug. 2022
• More than half of the students who left Wilmington’s public schools during the pandemic opted for vocational school, private schools, or to be taught at home, according to Brand.
  — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2022
• Most strangely of all, for a film that states and restates the bone-deep vocational importance of the acting process, there is little real sense of the euphoria of performance, or the irresistible lure that the stage exerts on these kids.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 24 May 2022
• They are primarily used to talk to family and in vocational programs.
  — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Feb. 2024
• They were also called to respond to a juvenile male student at the campus vocational building who also suffered a head injury.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 5 Jan. 2024
• She was educated at a private Catholic school and a women-only vocational school, and speaks fluent English.
  — Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 11 July 2022
• The couple paid for the students’ school programs and then covered their tuition at college or vocational institutions.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022
• In September, a two-story vocational center was completed on the property at 555 Deer Springs Road that includes a quick-service restaurant that’s now open to the public.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2022
• The resources out there for adults focus a lot on vocational training and employment skills and independent living.
  — Meg Dunn, CNN, 28 Apr. 2022
• After graduating from a vocational high school in 2008, Wang worked in graphic design for a few years in eastern Zhejiang province.
  — Yong Xiong, Selina Wang and Nectar Gan, CNN, 17 Aug. 2022
• The planter project is one of many community, youth, vocational and international projects of area Rotary clubs.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 1 Nov. 2022
• Growing up about 20 miles northeast of Seattle, her father fell ill and lost his job, so her mother, while raising seven children, went to a vocational tech school on a government program to help get a job.
  — Paul Kane, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
• Xing Wei graduated from a vocational high school in northeastern China in 2003 and went to work as an electrician in an auto parts factory in the country’s south.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• During his tenure, CNU moved away from vocational programs.
  — Brandi Kellam, ProPublica, 22 Dec. 2023
• Today, that ward is represented on the city council by Alex Burton, a 33-year-old administrator of a high school vocational program.
  — Washington Post, 19 May 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024