How to Use campus in a Sentence

campus

noun
  • We walked around the campus on our first day.
  • Rallies were held on college campuses across the country.
  • Visitors crowded the campus on graduation day.
  • And the person that was on campus actually ended up being my one of my store directors.
    Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Kay Weissman, a retired flamenco dancer and actress, has lived on the campus for seven years.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Adrian, a college sophomore, will watch the game at a friend’s place on campus in College Station.
    Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Gaylord, which is located on a 400-acre campus in Wallingford, has lights on the building, but not in the courtyard where patients can see them.
    Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Across the street from the campus, a group of people wait for the Valley Metro bus.
    Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 25 May 2023
  • The three stabbings are within 5 miles of the UC Davis campus.
    Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
  • The advanced care center at the campus could open as soon as next spring.
    Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2023
  • By the time the team arrived back to campus after its first two games, the school was already changed.
    Santul Nerkar, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Sleeping rough on the hard ground can make for a long night, but a campus mattress can change this.
    Nora Colomer, Fox News, 26 June 2024
  • Cost is $99 for up to six courses on a single campus, or $30 per course.
    cleveland, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The school district is on spring break and no students or staff will be on campus during the drills.
    Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Just received a call from BPD about a shooting at the Morgan campus.
    Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
  • New bond funds would fund a broad range of projects on district campuses.
    Jennah Pendleton, Sacramento Bee, 23 May 2024
  • Wu said the city is also in talks with the governor and the MBTA about building a stop on the commuter rail line near the campus.
    Deanna Pan, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
  • On the edge of the forest, deep inside the campus of the Middleburg, Va., boarding school, students walked through iron gates.
    Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Biden, peaking on the same day as Harris. Israel, which reached a high in April during a wave of campus protests.
    Noah Bressner, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Nice campus, good quality of life, minutes from the beach.
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Michael Lee-Chang, a second-year student at Sacramento State, said the campus looked like a ghost town.
    Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Throughout the week, the UW-Whitewater campus hosted a vigil, and a flag was flown at half-staff on the first day of classes.
    Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The shootings were just a couple of miles away from the Bates campus, and the school went into lockdown, along with the rest of Androscoggin County.
    Diego Lasarte, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Part of his legacy is being a wire-to-wire guy, committing to a campus and sticking it out.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
  • The fire Monday followed a series of arson attacks on the campus last month.
    Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 9 July 2024
  • Over the past 2½ months, Jew-hatred has rocked elite college campuses.
    Barton Swaim, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Thursday’s shooting was the second in eight days to occur on a college campus in the District.
    Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 13 July 2023
  • DuPont, who graduated from Hampshire in 2019, felt the campus would be a great fit to host the annual event.
    Ellie Wolfe, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
  • With the city as your campus, there’s a certain scholastic crispness to this fall’s programming.
    The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Her event will take place on The Yard, a historically and culturally significant site at the center of campus.
    Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024

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