How to Use fraternity in a Sentence

fraternity

noun
  • The limo parked in front of his former fraternity house at the school.
    Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Chapin lived about 200 yards away, across the band field, at the Sigma Chi fraternity house and was spending the night.
    Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • The current 20-foot cross was placed there by the brothers of the Sigma Chi fraternity, the school said in a blog post.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The Tokyo Olympics was a triumph for openness and fraternity, and in the process, a tribute to the host country.
    John Lee, National Review, 6 Feb. 2022
  • The divine nine is the name for the group of the nine Black fraternities and sororities that exist in The United States.
    Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • On the one-year mark of his death, the fraternity plans to plant a tree in his memory outside the chapter house.
    Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Here are the four players who have a shot at being a part of one of the more exclusive fraternities in all of the sports.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Chapin was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, which has a frat house about 200 yards away.
    Fox News, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Who wouldn’t want to have a mil in the bank before his first fraternity rush party?
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 22 July 2021
  • The first traces back to a party at the Phi Delta Theta fraternity in October 2019.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2022
  • This was not the first dark mark against an SDSU fraternity.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Now on the outside, the growing ranks of exonerees have formed a unique fraternity.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Sigma Chi, the fraternity Chapin belonged to, has its flag at half-staff.
    Kendall Coughlin, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2022
  • On the night of April 30, the fraternity hosted an event in downtown Cleveland.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 12 May 2022
  • Spangler, who is in his last year of study, works part-time, belongs to a fraternity and lives in an apartment.
    al, 19 Dec. 2021
  • This leads the duo to fraternity parties, slam poetry nights and to events at spring break.
    New York Times, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Chapin and Kernodle were about 200 yards from the crime scene at a party in the Sigma Chi fraternity house, where Chapin was a member.
    Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Chapin, Kernodle's boyfriend, lived in a fraternity house 200 yards away and was sleeping over.
    Fox News, 10 Dec. 2022
  • They were squeezed into the schedule, played on a baseball field, and told they would no longer be welcomed in the Olympic fraternity.
    BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2021
  • Call it a fraternity of stink, and Carson is the newest member.
    Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Kicking is a fraternity of its own, but a football team needs one kicker at a time.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 2022
  • As Reynolds put it: Children and adults love Aubie, sorority girls are crazy about him, and fraternity boys want to be him.
    Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 23 Nov. 2021
  • These men make up a tragic fraternity of strangers, linked by their common ends.
    New York Times, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Soon after the encounter with the woman, the man spoke by phone with one of his fraternity brothers, who recorded the call and provided it to The Times.
    New York Times, 18 July 2021
  • Oakes was pledging the fraternity and was supposed to be introduced to the big brother who would guide him through Greek life.
    Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The team was a small fraternity of eight or so men who ate lunch together in a special trailer.
    Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Indeed, that is how members of that lethal fraternity see him.
    Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The tweet included three photographs of Fraser, one of which pictured him standing with a group of peers on the grounds of the MSU fraternity house.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Psi fraternity are facing felony charges after a skit performed at a party last year led to a pledge being set on fire.
    Landon Mion, Fox News, 8 Jan. 2025
  • At his funeral service, members of his fraternity honored Grant with a special tribute and a video that chronicled much of his life.
    Samantha Moilanen, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025

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