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How to use college in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

College means a specialized division of a university. Example: “These should be his college years, but he joined the Army.”

Examples of college by meaning

nounA specialized division of a university.

  • College of Engineering

nounAn institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.

  • She's still in college
  • These should be his college years, but he joined the Army.
  • All the courses here at the college.

nounA non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university, with its own faculty, departments, library, etc.

  • Pembroke College, Cambridge
  • Balliol College, Oxford
  • University College, London

nounA group of people sharing common purposes or goals, especially ecclesiastics or professionals; a corporate group; a...

  • College of Cardinals
  • College of Surgeons
  • Dissolution of Colleges Act 1545

More sentences with college

  • John and I have been friends ever since we were roommates at college.From the entry friend
  • The college graduated him as soon as he was no longer eligible to play under NCAA rules.From the entry graduate
  • Mom made it clear what she expected from me in college.From the entry make
  • I finally repaid my student loans, just before sending my kids to college.From the entry repay
  • We were at the same college, but happened never to meet.From the entry never
  • Midway through his second year of college, he still hadn't chosen a major.From the entry major
  • After his last year of college football, he was drafted by the Miami Dolphins.From the entry draft
  • I'm still indefinite about what I'm going to study at college.From the entry indefinite
  • My adviser at college was a bromide who had not had an original thought in years.From the entry bromide
  • After college, she started blimping and could no longer wear her favorite little black dress.From the entry blimp
  • The college has an apse that once held a small chapel.From the entry apse
  • The physicist Stephen Hawking used to cox for a college rowing team.From the entry cox
  • Many US colleges want to achieve superiority in the sport of football.From the entry superiority
  • The college has conferred an honorary degree upon the visiting Prime Minister.From the entry confer
  • The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it.From the entry cloister
  • My parents expected too much of me when I was in college.From the entry expect
  • After he left college, his father set him up in the family business.From the entry set up
  • High school was difficult, but it was a walk in the park compared to college engineering classes.From the entry walk in the park
  • The Democratic Party hasn't lost college students, this is just a flutter.From the entry flutter
  • I have not heard back from the college yet: I must have been backlisted.From the entry backlist
  • I don't want to go to college next year - Really? Why’s that?From the entry why's
  • The young college quarterback was on the third-string, and played only during blowouts.From the entry third-string
  • The college co-ed signed her letter to her mother with X's and O's.From the entry X's and O's
  • He pursued various higher education via trade school and community college.From the entry higher education
  • He had managed to lay by money for college through his years as a paperboy.From the entry lay by
  • The two of them engaged in all kinds of rascality in college.From the entry rascality
  • Why should we ban controversial speakers from college grounds? Surely that's political correctness gone mad?From the entry go mad
  • I was finding college too hard, so I dropped science and switched to an easier course.From the entry drop science
  • I'll get into a good college, if it's the last thing I do!From the entry if it's the last thing I do
  • Jane mentioned a number of braggables in her college application, including her term as senior class president.From the entry braggable

Meaning of college

  1. noun A specialized division of a university.
  2. noun An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.
  3. noun A university.

Full definition of college

Questions about college in a sentence

How do you use college in a sentence?
College is used as a noun. For example: “These should be his college years, but he joined the Army.”
What is a short sentence with college?
“Balliol College, Oxford”
What does college mean?
College means a specialized division of a university.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: college (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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