How to Use undergrad in a Sentence

undergrad

noun
  • The virus is stealing from them some of the best times of their undergrad lives.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Of the 94 male undergrads coming to St. Joseph’s in the fall, 54 are athletes, Free said.
    Kathleen Megan, courant.com, 17 May 2018
  • But as a brand-new hire straight out of undergrad, now is a time of learning.
    Claire Suddath, Bloomberg.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Now, five years out of undergrad, my D.C. friends have all moved away from D.C.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 31 July 2020
  • As an undergrad, I was focused more on getting to the NFL.
    Branson Wright, cleveland, 29 Sep. 2019
  • Rousemiller plans on taking a pre-med route for his undergrad.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 31 Jan. 2017
  • Mom Angelina Jolie dropped off the teen for her first year of undergrad.
    Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Things got harder from there for Gore, who tore his knee twice as an undergrad.
    Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Sergio, a 20-year-old undergrad, had caught the virus twice but couldn’t get tested.
    Susan Shapiro, Wired, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Huske captured three gold medals in the pool and was one of 14 Stanford undergrads to qualify for the Olympics.
    Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2024
  • About 50 undergrads have remained in Kunshan with a small group of staff.
    Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2020
  • Feel like a Harvard undergrad at these spots in and around Cambridge.
    Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Mar. 2018
  • My parents provided the same amount to each of us daughters for up to four years in undergrad, and two years in grad.
    R29 Team, refinery29.com, 5 June 2024
  • School always came easy for McMillon, and the first few years of undergrad weren’t too bad either.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 18 Sep. 2020
  • So that kind of put the bug in my head, and then taking that course with Jeff Sachs inspired me to take more and more courses as an undergrad.
    Heather Landy, Quartz, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The fashions may have changed, but the undergrads are still visible.
    Tom Vanderbilt, Travel + Leisure, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Ezawa came to the United States as an undergrad in 1994 to study art in San Francisco.
    Ashley MacKin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Only about 200 undergrads had shown up for the lecture.
    Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Itamar Moses, who won for best book of a musical, was a Yale undergrad.
    Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 14 June 2018
  • Childish Gambino, was plucked out of NYU as an undergrad to write for this show.
    John Ortved, Vogue, 29 June 2024
  • The 30 to 40 students who come each year from all over the world are mostly undergrads, though high school and graduate students can be found in the mix.
    Ben Huff, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Gutierrez, who went to Harvard for his undergrad degree and to Stanford for law school, was smart enough to say all the usual things.
    Kent Somers, azcentral, 8 June 2020
  • As an undergrad at Berkeley, Hsu was this person to a T and his memoir digs, in a lovely, low-key way beneath the surface of the pose.
    Chloe Schama, Vogue, 14 Sep. 2022
  • CEOs like to complain that the best undergrads come with specialized skills but lack these basics.
    Cathy N. Davidson, Time, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Some of these students, who help teach undergrads and supply labor in campus labs, are taking out loans just to pay the fees.
    Jon Marcus, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2019
  • The campus offers living quarters to just 26% of undergrads, the lowest rate at UC.
    Nanette Asimov, SFChronicle.com, 2 Sep. 2019
  • David Wyman was my undergrad advisor at UMass many years ago.
    Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Three legends and one current undergrad made the cut in a long, winding answer that followed.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Most people, most of undergrad to be clear, is not the person going to Georgetown or the person going to Stanford.
    Eric Johnson, Recode, 14 Oct. 2018
  • Rosenbach had used the technology as an undergrad — but on different species.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 6 Sep. 2024

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