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
  • Now, five years out of undergrad, my D.C. friends have all moved away from D.C.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 31 July 2020
  • Mom Angelina Jolie dropped off the teen for her first year of undergrad.
    Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Sergio, a 20-year-old undergrad, had caught the virus twice but couldn’t get tested.
    Susan Shapiro, Wired, 22 Sep. 2020
  • About 50 undergrads have remained in Kunshan with a small group of staff.
    Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • Michael, who'd recently been laid off, had two years of undergrad, and Chad, a stay-at-home dad, had left college in 1998 one credit shy of a degree.
    Leslie Goldman, Parents, 22 Jan. 2023
  • After the 10-minute break for my four-hour New School class, an undergrad returned looking glamorous.
    Susan Shapiro, Wired, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Eight years later, as an undergrad, Meg published her first.
    Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Both my brothers went to Ivy League schools for undergrad, graduate school.
    NBC News, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Luc Nutter’s fandom stretches back to his time as an OSU undergrad.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Project Runway' is the undergrad program, 'Making the Cut' is the graduate program.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2020
  • This is coming off as a grad student/TA doing a class presentation for a bunch of undergrads.
    Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Jackson took the undergrad out to lunch after his meeting with Thiel—to a little spot down the street on University Avenue.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The student-athletes’ 94 percent six-year graduation rate is well ahead of the 80 percent rate for all Twin Cities undergrads.
    Josh Verges, Twin Cities, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Recognition is awarded to full-time undergrads who earned at least a 3.4 GPA for not less than 12 semester hours of credit in the fall semester.
    cleveland, 14 Feb. 2020
  • This came after decades of allowing men to take undergrad classes part time, and to get graduate degrees at USJ.
    Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 15 May 2022
  • That’s why even though CIDE is small — with only about 500 undergrad and graduate students — what happens there carries weight.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Shouldn’t academics be held to a higher standard of performance than undergrads?
    Emma Green, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2024
  • As a bonus, there’s a stipend for undergrads, and every ambassador will be entered to win an inclusive trip to Fredericksburg, Texas in 2024 to see the total eclipse.
    Science Near Me, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2023
  • Boseman first got into theater, acting and writing plays as an undergrad at Howard.
    Ryan Pearson, Star Tribune, 29 Aug. 2020
  • In 2021, a postdoc and undergrad student in Colorado met up to check out some specimens in the collection from the Green River Formation.
    Moiya McTier, Popular Science, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Her younger sister, who completed her undergrad studies at USC earlier this year, wore a black, cropped corset, baggy pants and black heels.
    Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • In fact, the school’s humanities dean is the former preceptor of the undergrad writing program at Harvard.
    Nicole Laporte, Town & Country, 2 May 2023
  • Everybody loves cholent, even those who don’t, and a slow-cooker-full could easily feed 12 hungry undergrads without breaking the bank.
    Benjamin Dubow, Longreads, 20 Feb. 2024

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