How to Use academy in a Sentence

academy

noun
  • So the race and the academy process, that's my favorite part of the movie.
    Heather Newman, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The Marriott closed due to flooding, but the academy’s chapel was open by the next week.
    Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The academy’s goal is to raise it even higher – to $25 an hour.
    Ariel Gilreath, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Due to lack of funds, the next academy class has been canceled.
    Paul Novack, Sun Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The academy was founded by the Sisters of Notre Dame in 1906.
    Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 29 Nov. 2022
  • All because a bunch of men in the academy found the movie too preachy and a bit threatening.
    Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Thank you so much to the academy for this honor of a lifetime.
    Vulture, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Avery was a member of the class of 2028 and was on the academy's women's track and field team.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The recruit plans to return to the academy and become a deputy.
    Mona Darwish, Orange County Register, 26 Apr. 2024
  • There’s not a lot of Black men and gender scholars in the academy.
    Tirhakah Love, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2023
  • And new arrivals haven’t kept up — with the last two academy classes of just 23 apiece.
    Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Both Portnow and the academy denied the claims against them.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 8 May 2024
  • The academy trains officers for the Navy and Marine Corps.
    Jeremiah Poff, Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2023
  • For those of us who love the academy, these are unhappy times.
    Stephen L. Carter, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2024
  • At the academy, cadets lived in barracks with metal bunk beds in neat rows.
    Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The academy declined Tuesday to name the two pilots involved in the crash.
    Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 7 May 2024
  • In the aftermath, the academy banned Will Smith from attending for the next 10 years.
    Jake Coyle, Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Trejo counts himself among those whose lives have been changed by the academy.
    Theresa Cisneros, Orange County Register, 1 Aug. 2024
  • De La Cruz practiced with a shortstop who was considered the star of the academy.
    Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 6 June 2023
  • The anniversary was extra special for the Queen, who has served as patron of the dance academy since 2006.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023
  • There are similar stories in the data from the Air Force and Coast Guard academies.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 6 July 2023
  • And so are those at West Point, the nation’s military academy in New York where the capsule was found.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Lundy has left the water polo team while staying at the academy.
    Glae Thien, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Some might have the advantage of in-house trainers or even an academy.
    Thomas Lim, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The academy plans to accept students through eighth grade.
    Allison Kiehl, The Enquirer, 31 July 2024
  • This past school year, there were 85 students studying at the academy, which has grown in size every year.
    Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 25 June 2024
  • The hobbyists would then gather at the academy to show off their slides at gourmet luncheons.
    Jack Tamisiea, WIRED, 24 Sep. 2022
  • That has been at various points, one of those sources of tension between the two academies.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The retail space was gifted to the academy by real estate firm Berkeley Group.
    Lucy Handley, CNBC, 30 Dec. 2024
  • The Naval Academy is the nation’s second-oldest academy, in Annapolis, Maryland.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 23 Dec. 2024

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