How to Use scholarship in a Sentence

scholarship

noun
  • The book is about his life and scholarship.
  • The essay is a work of serious scholarship.
  • She got a scholarship to Yale University.
  • The organization is offering five $5,000 scholarships.
  • Then the news came about the scholarship falling through.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
  • And so what that’s done is it’s made the scholarship around Black men weak.
    Tirhakah Love, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The story’s shaky, and the scholarship’s not new, but the art is fantastic.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Bernard insists that the scholarship students need to fit into the school, not fit the school around them.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Each student on the P-CEP teamed earned $7,000 in scholarships.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2023
  • The scholarship does not cover the cost of standard fees.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Thomas was in his third year with the UCA football team at the time of the accident and was set to be put on scholarship in the fall.
    Sam Lane, Arkansas Online, 19 Nov. 2022
  • There were eight girls in my class, two of us scholarship students.
    Safiya Sinclair, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • Ross was raped once more in her freshman year and lost her scholarship when her grades slipped.
    Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The point of the scholarships is to give poor children options to escape these failure traps.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2023
  • And two of the scholarship players in uniform barely play.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Cameron is a former walk-on that was put on scholarship in the summer of 2022, just before the start of this past season.
    Michael Haag, Dallas News, 28 Dec. 2022
  • This parent believes that their 9-year-old is on the brink of a full college scholarship.
    Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Fourteen of those 18 players were on scholarship and four were walk-ons.
    Jeff Potrykus, Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Three more announcements of scholarship winners will be made in the next few months.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2023
  • Despite the injury, Tart had shown enough for FIU to offer a scholarship.
    Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The event raised more than $950 to help support school programs and provide scholarships.
    Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2024
  • One of the club’s philanthropies is a scholarship named for Della Williams.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Proceeds from the event go to support the WHCA and to provide scholarships for students.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2024
  • In order to add Glover on scholarship for this fall, some other roster shift would need to take place.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 26 July 2023
  • With the signing of Franklin, UWM has one remaining scholarship to fill.
    Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 6 May 2023
  • And some will be doing it with athletic scholarships, some will only be doing it for the love of the game.
    Justine Kenin, NPR, 30 May 2024
  • Months prior, In-han was also a scholarship student at the school.
    Kayti Burt, TIME, 7 June 2024
  • Hale said the Big Shoulders Fund awards scholarships for the entire school year in single lump-sum payments.
    Sarah MacAraeg, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2023
  • And the Brown family offers its own scholarship for college students.
    Tiffani Arnold, Chicago Tribune, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Also, 47 scholarships were given to up-and-coming bartenders to further their education, and one-third of them identified as South African.
    Shayna Conde, Essence, 4 Dec. 2024

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