How to Use tuition in a Sentence

tuition

noun
  • Her uncle agreed to pay part of her tuition.
  • There's going to be a tuition increase next year.
  • Before the company transferred her to Mexico, they offered her private tuition in Spanish.
  • And these are just the starting rates (tuition, room and board, fees).
    Leena Kim, Town & Country, 22 Sep. 2022
  • That means more funds for schools, child care, health care, college tuition, and roads.
    Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2023
  • And that, in turn, could inspire colleges to hike their tuition.
    Sarah Bedford, Washington Examiner, 4 July 2023
  • In-state tuition rates rank among the most affordable in the Midwest.
    Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2024
  • The Board of Regents will vote on, and is expected to pass, the tuition plan on Thursday.
    Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The grant, split between the Thompsons and the school, covers about 75% of tuition and fees that are fixed for the duration of their college years.
    Janet Lorin, Fortune, 2 May 2024
  • Aon covers the apprentice’s salary, benefits, and the costs of tuition, fees and books.
    Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
  • For my parents, this would mean tuition paid, uniforms made, one less child to worry about.
    Safiya Sinclair, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • The west Baltimore school closed in 2010 — the tuition had increased a little in sixty years — but now the church, and what’s left of the parish, is closing, too.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 23 Nov. 2024
  • The tuition free status will apply to all new and returning students in the program.
    Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Biden is a villain, but the biggest villains are the colleges that charge ridiculous tuition.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Between tuition, textbooks, and beer, there isn’t always a lot of wiggle room in the budget.
    Wired, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The remainder of the tuition was paid and Pinkney became a college graduate.
    Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
  • His parents, who ran a print shop, struggled to make ends meet and at times didn’t have enough money to pay their children’s tuition at a Catholic school.
    Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2022
  • About 87% of Cal State students have their tuition fully or partly covered by grants and aid.
    Ashley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The preschool will have 17 students in the fall, 15 of whom will have free tuition through Multnomah County’s Preschool for All initiative.
    Austindedios, oregonlive, 18 Aug. 2023
  • That translates to more than $8 million in tuition, fees, and room and board over the four years of those students’ educations.
    Jon Marcus, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The cost of preschool child care is a growing problem in Alaska, one of 33 states where the annual cost of day care exceeds the cost of college tuition.
    James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Fidelity will pay the schools directly for the tuition, fees, and taxes.
    BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The city has also seen soaring costs for children’s private school tuition.
    Troy Closson, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Students get a $7,500 scholarship for both freshman and sophomore years to help defray the cost of tuition.
    La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2024
  • That's despite a slowdown in tuition hikes during Covid.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 24 Aug. 2022
  • That's why tuition (up until recent years) has grown at sometimes triple the rate of inflation.
    Lilia Luciano, CBS News, 9 June 2024
  • This is equivalent to a full in-state tuition scholarship for an HBCU student.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 21 Jan. 2024
  • That increase can be attributed in part to a startling rise in college tuition.
    Christina Prignano, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Elected to the Arizona state House in 2010, Gallego led the charge to grant in-state tuition status to veterans living in Arizona.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 23 Jan. 2023
  • It is required to pay such tuition when public schools fail to serve students with disabilities, who make up a fifth of all pupils.
    Troy Closson, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2023

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