Sentence examples for during commencement from inspiring English sources

It will probably be reactivated during commencement week in May, he said.

For his lifelong celebration of shipping, Mr. Braynard received an honorary doctorate from the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point during commencement exercises on Monday.

Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP 6.43pm BST Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny (C) walks to the stage to receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree and deliver the commencement address during Commencement Exercises at Boston College in Boston, Massachusetts.

When Mona failed to get her way, she semi-seriously considered unfurling a banner in the back of the school auditorium during commencement that read, "We know who the real salutatorian is".

The former N.B.A. star Shaquille O'Neal received his doctoral degree in education from Barry University alongside 1,100 other students during commencement ceremonies in Miami Shores, Fla .O'Neal high-fived other graduates as he made his way back to his seat along with his manager, Cynthia Atterberry, who received a doctorate in education.

Snapchat filter right now at Kenan Stadium during commencement #UNCgrad pic.twitter.com/p5T3hsXTwZ.

Mrs. Clinton, who proposed a "Gulf Coast Recovery Agenda" during a stop here Friday, unveiled more details of that plan during a commencement speech Saturday at Dillard University, where she spoke before several thousand African-Americans.

Academy, in Quantico, Virginia, in what was, even for Trump, a most unusual digression during a commencement address.

In 2002, Syracuse students held up their wallets during the commencement speech by Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City.

Last year, the Vice-President caused an uproar when, during a commencement speech, he referred to China as a nation in which one cannot "breathe free".

("You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart," he famously told Stanford graduates during a commencement speech in 2005).