Sentence examples for like a commencement from inspiring English sources

"It felt like a commencement speech," Amy Korin, an audience member, said after the taping.

Sounding on occasion much like a commencement speaker, he urged students to take their jobs seriously and, citing his charitable foundation, to give back to their communities.

For example, any of life's special moments like a graduation or commencement, or a parent-child relationship, or soul mates going through tough times.

She stopped talking for a moment, then asked, "Does that sound totally Pollyanna-ish?" No, but it sounds like good material for a commencement speech.

As it's graduation season, I asked the over-achieving rockstars in my senior journalism capstone class what they'd most like to hear from a commencement speaker.

CARSON: Giving a commencement address like this has made me as proud as anything I've ever done.

The four people who pushed me to try my hand at speechwriting, who encouraged me during my job search, and who now answer my frantic emails with subject lines like "How do you write a commencement speech?!" – they are all extremely talented feminist speechwriters... who happen to be men.

For Stacy Vee, Goldenvoice's director of festival talent who books Stagecoach each year while Tollett focuses on Coachella, the 10th edition of Stagecoach feels a lot like a school graduation commencement.

Yet I count as the greatest privileges of my life the sunny days like this one, where I have the chance to deliver a commencement address.

Koch was a commencement speaker.

Jonathan Safran Foer delivers a commencement address at Middlebury College.