university entrance
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Hundreds of young Chinese students clutching pens and their IDs shuffled into a testing centre in blue-skied Beijing on Sunday, swarmed by parents, joining millions sitting for the national high-stakes university entrance exam.
From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026
The universities have also expanded once small-scale partnerships with high schools to create a dedicated pipeline of prospective students who get preference in admission without having to take university entrance exams.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2023
Eldest daughter, Fatmagul, 19, has begun preparing for university entrance exams, which she is due to take in a few months.
From Reuters • Mar. 6, 2023
An Afghan teenager who was severely injured in a suicide attack in September has passed her university entrance exams with high marks.
From BBC • Nov. 5, 2022
Aunty Ifeoma rolled the car down the road that led to the university entrance gates.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
