Sentence examples for won entrance from inspiring English sources

Jaurès won entrance to the École Normale in 1878; one year later Durkheim did the same.

She later attended the Dalton School and, at 15, won entrance to Wellesley College.

Beer won entrance to the prestigious New York High School of Music and Art for his drawings.

A dazzling student from a modest family, Othman won entrance to French schools, at a time when they welcomed few Moroccans, and earned a scholarship to study economics in France.

After discovering his voice at the age of 15 in the high school glee club, he won entrance to the Curtis Institute of Music, but his studies were interrupted by service in the Navy during the war; a sympathetic officer, hearing his musical talent, assigned him to band duty, meaning that he had to rapidly learn to play an instrument.

Christian Cage, Kurt Angle, and Booker T all won entrance into the match.

Last season's finale showed Claire Lauren Ambrosee), the mixed-up teenage daughter of the Fisher brood, desperate to win entrance to the fictitious LAC-Arts, a local art school.

Joseph Brooks Jr. was a policeman's son from Detroit and one of the few black students to win entrance to both a prestigious local preparatory school and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He's a gifted actor — his father's pal David Milch writes him into an episode of the TV series "Deadwood" — and a popular student at the selective Brooklyn Technical High School, where he wins entrance easily.

On a recent Tuesday, the office was co-hosting a pitch event for 30 new start-ups, a chance for companies to present their products to potential investors and win entrance to a coming technology conference.

In 1857, Rodin submitted a clay model of a companion to the Grand École in an attempt to win entrance; he did not succeed, and two further applications were also denied.