Sentence examples for varsity from inspiring English sources

'varsity' is a correct and usable word in written English
It is a noun meaning a sports team representing a university or college. For example: "The varsity team won the tournament this year."

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varsity

noun

University

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The junior varsity class: They have yet to capture the Tea Party's full attention, but could bound onto centerstage at any moment.

It was the summer of 2008 and Williams, a varsity football player who had just graduated high school, had two months to go before starting college – and a spot on the football team – at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.

His "Tempest", set in the Arctic, was a successful RSC production, and he finds the "varsity fervour" of its Stratford home quite intoxicating.

At the same time, it elevated the cheerleading squad into a new varsity (top level) sport.

She found that though they did not set out to recruit students from wealthy backgrounds, the companies had a penchant for graduates who had been to well-known universities and played varsity sports (lacrosse correlates with success particularly well).

He was also captain of the varsity tennis team and graduated in 1969 with two degrees, in electrical engineering and industrial management.

Furthermore, he ruled that the university's cheerleading did not qualify as a varsity sport.

While a keen player, Cuba's former president was not good enough at baseball to secure a tryout he didn't even make the University of Havana's varsity team.

The Buckeyes posted a total win-loss record of 78 6 during Lucas's three years on the varsity basketball squad, appearing in three consecutive National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championship games and winning the championship in 1960.

In three varsity seasons at LSU under his father in an era when freshmen were prohibited from playing with the varsity he rang up a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) scoring record with 3,667 career points.

The first varsity match between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge was held in 1897, and it was considered a privileged "full blue" sport: an athlete who has represented Oxford is permitted to wear a dark blue blazer and a Cambridge athlete a light blue one.

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