How to Use fraternity in a Sentence

fraternity

noun
  • Kicking is a fraternity of its own, but a football team needs one kicker at a time.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Hester had almost six months to process his place in football lore and inclusion in the sport’s most prestigious fraternity.
    Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The fraternity brothers of Sigma Chi had company this spring.
    New York Times, 22 July 2022
  • According to Ortiz, ballplayers have a strong fraternity.
    Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 24 July 2022
  • He was found unconscious by a roommate after members of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity dropped him off at his apartment.
    CBS News, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Shari and Cory Foltz last spoke to their 20-year-old son shortly before the fraternity initiation ritual was held.
    CBS News, 17 June 2022
  • 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 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
  • Chapin was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, which has a frat house about 200 yards away.
    Fox News, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Sigma Chi, the fraternity Chapin belonged to, has its flag at half-staff.
    Kendall Coughlin, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Samuel Knight, his fraternity brother in the San Diego chapter said this is part of Logan’s legacy.
    Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Other fraternity members took Oakes and the other pledges outside to throw up on the lawn, but Oakes did not throw up, according to the lawsuit.
    Michelle Watson, CNN, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The student was in Nashville with his Delta Chi fraternity members.
    Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 21 Mar. 2024
  • And that night, the Heisman gala, where he was officially welcomed to the award’s fraternity as its 88th member.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Ferrell spent some time on the one’s and two’s at a tailgate hosted by Sigma Alpha Mu, his old fraternity.
    Vulture, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Isabelle explained that fraternity pledges have to bring sorority dates to football games (and their date must sit with them the entire time).
    Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 24 May 2023
  • And this time, the two have the moment of life, fraternity and equality that the real Varda sought and never received from the M.I.A. gentleman.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Anxious piano mingled with wailing strings, as the audience was brought to their feet by the fraternity marching stiffly across the catwalk to the main stage.
    Neena Rouhani, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Going to see Jack was like going to see a fraternity brother at a tailgate party.
    Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The county said six of the homes were SDSU fraternity and sorority houses.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Oct. 2023
  • There is a coaching brotherhood, a fraternity, which is why, when one gets fired for a lack of success, he gets rehired by a crony somewhere else.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2023
  • The league could also draw the ire of Texas high school football head coaches, a celebrated fraternity who are often the best way to reach blue chip recruits.
    Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 7 June 2023
  • The profile states he was expected to graduate in June 2026 and was a member of the Beta Alpha Omega fraternity.
    Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 9 July 2024

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