Example sentences for: awarded

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

  • The first scholarship was awarded in 1987.

  • All the British press speculated Monday on the reason why the British government had intervened to stop Sean Connery's being awarded a knighthood by the queen: Was it his Scottish nationalism, or was it his attitude on violence toward women?

  • Once you've awarded, say, 10 A's, you can't award any more till next year.

  • Since 1979, women have outnumbered men on college campuses, but now the gap is widening: Fifty-seven percent of B.A.s are awarded to women.

  • The prize for the first--in the sense of earliest recorded and significant--Australianism is generally awarded to kangaroo , despite the fact that another, much less striking animal, the quoll , is noticed in the same glossary of an Australian language, that compiled by James Cook, navigator and explorer, in 1770.


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