Example sentences for: doctorate

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

  • On his way back to India, Oxford awarded Hall an honorary doctorate in recognition of his contribution to oriental learning.

  • Many labs now consist of older chiefs and senior researchers, and graduate students who plan to leave immediately after getting the candidate degree (the equivalent of a Western doctorate).

  • When the unexpected Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 spurred his emigration to the United States, Bela Julesz, with his Hungarian doctorate in engineering, joined the numerous mathematical luminaries working at AT&T Bell Laboratories, such as John Tukey, Harry Nyquist, Claude Shannon, and John Kelly.

  • Campbell had allowed the laboratory to believe that he had a doctorate from Princeton University, the lab said, when in fact he had only finished his Ph.D. course work.

  • For a man with a master's degree in electrical engineering and a doctorate in operations research, Malone has always had a keen sense of how important futurist rhetoric was to the new media world.


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