Example sentences for: grad

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

  • Perhaps the greatest mystery in the history of the Internet is one about which Hafner and Lyon never bother to speculate--how and why the Pentagon, at the height of the backlash against the Vietnam War, was persuaded to grant a bunch of longhaired, Tolkien-reading grad students huge sums of money, without insisting on oversight.

  • According to FEC records, at least 25 and perhaps 50 of the top 400 political donors last year (two in the top 10) were joined by one or more children or grandchildren, from preteens to grad students, in giving to their favorite candidates.

  • Although I've made my affections for her very clear, she has turned me down for dates because she prefers the company of her "Euroclique," a group of grad students also from "The Continent."

  • While a grad student at Yale, she formulated the theory behind the current practice of sexual harassment law--that the employment discrimination protections in the 1964 Civil Rights Act could be used to regulate workplace behavior such as dirty jokes and unwelcome advances.

  • A cutie from Germany--also a grad student, in another department--caught my eye this past year, and I am positively smitten.


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