Sentence examples for school commencement from inspiring English sources

Everyone was excited that Walter Cronkite was giving our high school commencement speech.

MacKenzie challenges Will to champion good journalism with a pitch that sounds like a high school commencement address.

She had planned to travel to Los Angeles for her graduate school commencement at the University of Southern California, her family has said.

He almost always works in a local line -- a reference to the Bedford Angels, for example, at a high school commencement last Sunday.

The Kalamazoo speech was Mr. Obama's first high school commencement address as president; his predecessor, George W. Bush, delivered the 2008 commencement address in Greensburg, Kan., a small town that was practically wiped off the map by a deadly tornado.

The current release, the first for Mr. Márquez since "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" in 2004, is a compilation of speeches, beginning with his high school commencement in 1944.

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.

Over time it became an albatross, used for roller-skating parties, dances, recitals, basketball games, high school commencements and movies.

Watching a match between these two has become the tennis equivalent of sitting through a Red Sox-Yankees game, or "The Ten Commandments," or a state-school commencement.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Watching a match between these two has become the tennis equivalent of sitting through a Red Sox-Yankees game, or "The Ten Commandments," or a state-school commencement.

I had only one good dress, the turquoise crêpe that I had bought with some of my scholarship money, to wear when I gave the valedictory address at my high-school commencement exercises.