How to Use junior college in a Sentence

junior college

noun
  • The girls have enrolled in school — the two eldest in junior college.
    CBS News, 28 Oct. 2022
  • About 70 went to freshmen and the rest went to junior college transfers.
    Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
  • Scrubb was the junior college player of the year and will receive one of the team’s two two-way contracts.
    Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Will the Ducks secure two of the nation’s top five junior college prospects?
    oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The school expanded, with the addition of a girls' school and a junior college.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 11 May 2022
  • The junior college transfer has 13 points, two steals and one block in 22 minutes.
    Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 13 Dec. 2021
  • All are in their first year at ASU, White out of junior college and the other two freshmen.
    Jeff Metcalfe, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2020
  • His father played junior college football, and the two bonded over the sport.
    oregonlive, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Becoming the starting punter for the Ducks is at the very least ahead of schedule for the junior college transfer.
    oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Duece and Phat Watts, both starting, were in junior college.
    G Smith, NOLA.com, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Leading up to the game, the Bison junior college club didn’t have any practices with pads on.
    Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The Mean Green really need Turpin and Gray, a pair of junior college transfers, to be ready to play right away.
    Brett Vito, Denton Record-Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2020
  • White calls his time in junior college the most crucial part of his journey to the NFL playoffs.
    Andrés Soto, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2024
  • The Sox selected him in the 1982 draft out of a junior college in Florida.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2021
  • All high school, junior college and college sports stopped in the second week of March due to the pandemic.
    NBC News, 13 June 2020
  • Thomas committed to the Bearcats, wound up making the grades, and avoided going to a junior college, at least for a while.
    Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Dec. 2021
  • White was a no-star recruit, who worked his way from Division II to junior college to the Pac-12.
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The 5-foot-10 junior college transfer has speed and size to compete for major snaps at Louisville.
    Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 27 July 2021
  • Point guard Craig Beaudion played two years of junior college.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 11 Mar. 2021
  • But her players at Mesabi Range, a junior college in Virginia, Minn., have been more awestruck.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2022
  • The junior college product has a lot of upside and has the size to play a variety of techniques in a 4-3 or 3-4 defense.
    Scott Horner, Indianapolis Star, 27 Jan. 2020
  • And last month, junior college transfer Koron Davis was dismissed from the team.
    The Courier-Journal, 4 Jan. 2024
  • From walk-on to scout team to junior college and back to Georgia to lead the Bulldogs to the national championship.
    Ryne Dennis, USA TODAY, 21 July 2022
  • His first season was a grayshirt year, the junior college equivalent of a redshirt.
    Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2022
  • Next up: junior college, where he was set to play basketball again.
    Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2023
  • But that’s far from the lone reason Smith impressed Parker right away in junior college.
    Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 17 Sep. 2020
  • The junior college transfer led the team in tackles while finishing 2nd in tackles for loss and third in sacks.
    Dallas News, 21 May 2021
  • Of the eight who were drafted, two were junior college transfers in Jesse Williams and Quinton Dial.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 11 May 2021
  • Grayson grew up in Nashville before moving to San Diego for junior college and to play football.
    Emy Lacroix, Peoplemag, 28 July 2024
  • Drafted as a shortstop out of an Illinois junior college.
    Tony Blengino, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024

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