Sentence examples for commencement a from inspiring English sources

As I said at the commencement, a wee bit dull.

But as Ms. Hu spoke at the commencement, a few were heard booing in the crowd.

The 34 students who graduated on Saturday in the school's first commencement, a joint ceremony for three graduating classes, ranged in age from 5 to 18.

I was speaking at a commencement a few months ago and an older man walked across the stage to receive his doctoral degree.

Two students at a high school in Woodbine have won a court challenge to stop the singing of the Lord's Prayer at their commencement, a compulsory school tradition for 30 years.

A subsequent methodological option is to focus on a moment of commencement: a primal scene (Urszene or Anfang) of the research practice that eventually evolved into current synthetic biology discourse.

Several months before commencement, an editorial in the student newspaper questioned his "caliber" and a student created a Facebook page protesting the choice.

The 26th U.S. President, Theodore Roosevelt, addressed the school at the 1907 commencement, an event coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the school's opening.

"I speak at a commencement or a high-school graduation, and I'm looking at the faces of kids," he told me.

In 1969, Rodham, senior class president at Wellesley, became the first student invited to deliver a commencement address, a speech that was featured in Life.

By E. J. Kahn The New Yorker, June 21 , 1941P. 34 List of equipment necessary for attending a commencement at a girls' college.