Sentence examples for graduation exercise from inspiring English sources

Today, at the graduation exercise, Mr. Gore outlined the Clinton administration's efforts toward creating a national missile defense system that would protect all 50 states from a limited attack.

The next day, he spoke again, this time at the graduation exercises of the United States Air Force Academy.

Since the bill passed, veterans across Connecticut have received diplomas at high school graduation exercises and private ceremonies.

Stage direction from a school play presented during graduation exercises at an uptown private school: "Father exits.

"By the late eighteen-fifties, approximately four thousand spectators attended the graduation exercises at Philadelphia's Central High School — and twice that number was turned away," Reese writes.

Next day at the girls' graduation exercises at Milton Academy, a respected preparatory school, the commencement address was delivered by Marian Wright Edelman, a black woman.

Between poses with graduates, Mr. Stella defended his position that the boys should not have been able to take part in graduation exercises.

The Boston Globe recently noted that "the vision of large numbers of seniors locked out of graduation exercises is starting to fade".

Correction: June 1, 2000, Thursday An article yesterday about Cornell University's graduation exercises misidentified the event at which Charles E. Schumer of New York spoke.

"I've been to lots of graduation exercises, and almost every time, after a half-hour you start to feel your eyes closing," he said.

A fortnight before the graduation exercises at Radcliffe, somebody discovered that a mistake had been made about the ribbons to be used for tying up the diplomas.