sorority
a society or club of women or girls, especially in a college.
Origin of sorority
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How to use sorority in a sentence
While what goes into the curation of every TikTok user’s For You page remains a mystery, one thing has become clear—content from University of Alabama students vying for a spot at the school’s sororities has dominated the app over the last week.
RushTok Is a Mesmerizing Viral Trend. It Also Amplifies Sororities’ Problems With Racism | Cady Lang | August 19, 2021 | TimeA week before Martinez died, the complaint says, each pledge was locked in a room with a woman rushing a campus sorority.
A freshman was ‘hazed to death,’ his family says. 15 former fraternity members now face charges. | Reis Thebault | June 4, 2021 | Washington PostI sort of compare it to rushing a sorority where it’s like “I went through this difficult thing and now I’m going to do this to you.”
In this sorority of strangers, I met Teresa Gardner and Brianna Fox.
Some young women embraced their gray hair during the pandemic. They might not go back. | Maura Judkis | April 12, 2021 | Washington PostSome former employees say the company felt like a sorority in the early days.
How Whitney Wolfe Herd Turned a Vision of a Better Internet Into a Billion-Dollar Brand | Charlotte Alter/Austin | March 19, 2021 | Time
Her wealthy family imposed its own monetary and social punishment for stepping outside the sorority.
Stepford Sororities: The Pressures of USC’s Greek Life | Maya Richard Craven | November 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI still miss my friend, a girl from a privileged white family that had a multi-generation history in a sorority at USC.
Stepford Sororities: The Pressures of USC’s Greek Life | Maya Richard Craven | November 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe turned to me as someone to keep her honest after she first dropped her sorority.
Stepford Sororities: The Pressures of USC’s Greek Life | Maya Richard Craven | November 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere was another viral post discussing why sorority recruitment needs to change.
Four years ago, when I was a sorority freshman, I would have never said I was a feminist.
Miss Weyman said there were eighteen girls in their sorority, interposed Jerry.
Marjorie Dean College Freshman | Pauline LesterHang pennants of the colors everywhere, and if it is a musical sorority, work in the staff and notes in the decorations.
Breakfasts and Teas | Paul PierceHave a sorority of dolls dressed in the colors, each doll holding a pennant, in the center of the table.
Breakfasts and Teas | Paul PierceThe Theta Gammas wrote her down as material for a quaint little, quiet little dig,—not of sorority interest.
Stanford Stories | Charles K. FieldThe sorority fever had not struck the little group of her especial friends in their freshman year.
Betty Lee, Sophomore | David Goodger (goodger@python.org)
British Dictionary definitions for sorority
/ (səˈrɒrɪtɪ) /
mainly US a social club or society for university women
Origin of sorority
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