Example sentences for: alumnus

How can you use “alumnus” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Recruited by an alumnus of Abu Zubaydah's Khaldan camp, Ressam trained in Afghanistan in 1998, learning, among other things, how to place cyanide near the air intake of a building to achieve maximum lethality at minimum personal risk.

  • As an alumnus and Chairman of the Maennerchor Society, my task now is to beat the drums for financial contributions of at least $1,000 from alumni and friends of the school.

  • An alumnus who gives today is helping to assure a quality education for students of today and tomorrow.

  • Chapter 6 discusses, under A Few More Words, a number of suffixes ( -trix, -ess , etc.) and words ( hero/ heroine, alumnus/alumna/alumni/alumnae , etc.) that apparently offend the authors: they campaign for the elimination of la différence . My own attitude is that I find such terms not in the least denigrating: Why should a woman object to being called a heroine, a divorcée, or an actress any more than being called a female or a woman?

  • 6. $10 million to MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY (Milwaukee) from an alumnus and his family for a new library that will be named after Father John Raynor, the university president who died in November 1997.


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