Example Sentences

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The first class of kids were graduating from his anti-bullying program, and he’d made a commitment to be there.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2024

The first edition of “The Defining Decade” came out just after the 2008 financial crisis, when young people were graduating with debt into a historically bad job market.

From New York Times • May 14, 2023

When Wilson arrived in 2010, 29 percent of students were graduating within six years.

From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2022

We had been dating three years in college, I was 20 and he was 21, and we were graduating the next year.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2017

It is true that as more and more persons were graduating from college in the sixties, the diploma’s value on the job market diminished.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez