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How to use scholarship in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Scholarship means a grant-in-aid to a student. Example: “He said he wanted a fair go to apply for the scholarship.”

Examples of scholarship by meaning

nounA grant-in-aid to a student.

  • There were proposals to revive choir scholarships, because a shortage of regular choristers meant that weddings often went choirless.2013, Stuart Wolfendale, Imperial to International, page 192
  • Since I was a teenager I have had to play different characters, negotiating the cultural expectations of a Pakistani family, Brit-Asian rudeboy culture, and a scholarship to private school.2016 September 15, Riz Ahmed, “Typecast as a terrorist”, in The Guardian
  • There is a significant investment in scholarships and fellowships and traineeships, so that we are also making sure that we’re investing in domestic work force.2021 May 18, Catie Edmondson, quoting Debbie Altenburg, “Senate Weighs Investing $120 Billion in Science to Counter China”, in The New York...

nounThe sum of knowledge accrued by scholars; the realm of refined learning.

  • I found the website and found people mingling scholarship with faith – great googly moogly!2010, Michael T. Cooper, Contemporary Druidry: A Historical and Ethnographic Study, →ISBN

verbTo attend an institution on a scholarship.

  • Up from the tenements of the Lower East Side, he had scholarshiped at Cornell and Harvard Law.2012, Joseph Miller, The Wicked Wine of Democracy, →ISBN, page 205

verbTo grant a scholarship to.

  • In the first year, twenty children were scholarshiped to attend the Kids Across America Kamp in Branson, Missouri.2006, Lloyd Reeb, Unlimited Partnership, →ISBN, page 138
  • Judith Lewis is a doctoral student at State University, and she also works full-time as an academic tutor for 10 scholarshiped student athletes.2012, Bernard W. Taylor, Introduction to Management Science:, page 632

More sentences with scholarship

  • He said he wanted a fair go to apply for the scholarship.From the entry fair go
  • She checked her eligibility for the scholarship.From the entry eligibility
  • Amy was given a scholarship thanks to her excellent grades.From the entry thanks to
  • The professor spoke learnedly for an hour about his abstruse scholarship; but he couldn't string two words together to speak to the pretty woman.From the entry learnedly
  • I am a research assistant for a cryoscience consortium and my chief duty is to conduct reviews of current scholarship on Antarctic ice movement.From the entry research assistant
  • Second, the author also presents a fairly detailed analysis of modern originalist scholarship.2025 June 22, Josh Blackman, “Grading The Controversial Florida Seminar Paper”, in Reason. From the entry originalist
  • Scholarships designed specifically for women can be useful in this situation.2023 October 28 (last accessed), scholarships.com. From the entry co-ed
  • Even from my small scholarship money, I used to donate to the local krantikari teams.2015 July 14, Debajani Mohanty, The Curse of Damini, Partridge Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry krantikari
  • Graphic memoirs or “autographics” are a growing focus of current scholarship.2014, Lan Dong, Teaching Comics and Graphic Narratives, →ISBN. From the entry autographics
  • What does the future — especially the future of cybermedia — hold for academic biblical scholarship?2004, Robert M Fowler, Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer, Fernando F Segovia, New paradigms for Bible study. From the entry cybermedia
  • This fall, 27 percent of all engineering scholarships at UNR were awarded to women.2000 June 20, Ben Rogers, “Engineering gender gap widens”, in CNN. From the entry UNLV
  • Most books of scholarship have surprisingly short intellectual half-lives during which they make a difference"1991, Robert Ackerman, Introduction to Jane Ellen Harrison's Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (1903). From the entry half-life
  • This ACS Monograph continues the high standards of scholarship and bibliogony set by the Board of Editors.1957 February, “Book Reviews”, in Journal of the Franklin Institute, volume 263, number 2, Philadelphia, P.A.: The Franklin Institute…. From the entry bibliogony
  • My opa grew up poor in Vienna and then got a scholarship to a prestigious Jewish high school.2022 September 14, Jessica Grose, “What School Anxiety Dreams Teach Us About Ourselves”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry opa
  • Indeed, Lascasian scholarship has greatly developed over the last two centuries as specialists have engaged his prodigious corpus of writings.2019, David Thomas Orique and Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Introduction: Three Waves of Lascasian Scholarship”, in Bartolomé de las Casas, O.P.…. From the entry Lascasian
  • Extant scholarship and theory tends to overlook and mis-theorize the role that marginal actors play in organizational change and development.2017, Seth A. Jacobson, Marginal Matters. From the entry mis-theorize
  • Gandhi did not possess Tilak's scholarship; nor his lion-heartedness.2012, Balraj Krishna, Great Indians: Surendranath Banerjea to Gandhi, →ISBN. From the entry lion-heartedness
  • He had emerged from a tradition steeped in Galenic scholarship.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 53. From the entry galenic
  • I'll go if I get a scholarship.2010, Ke Huang, “Lullaby: Barcarole”, in The One Million Stories Creative Writing Project 2010 Anthology, One Million Stories Small Press…. From the entry cêntimo
  • The Ivy Group and the Big Ten were the most notable conferences to initially avoid full ride scholarships.2007, Applying Amateurism in the Global Sports Arena, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry full ride
  • Joan Acocella's polemic against this body of scholarship has had the effect of de-queering Cather for a general readership.2007, Heather Love, Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History, page 74. From the entry de-queer
  • Brian thinks she's a lock to get a scholarship somewhere.2004, Avery Corman, A perfect divorce. From the entry lock
  • Social norm scholarship in criminal law, I would suggest, is best understood as a type of constructivist social theory.2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order. From the entry constructivist
  • When Simmons won a scholarship to Dillard University, her high school teachers took up a collection so she'd have a coat.2001 September 17, Jodie Morse, “Campus Crusader”, in Time. From the entry take up a collection
  • After retrenching itself in scholarship and literary imagination, Orientalism has moved on to conquer film, television and CD-ROMs.1999, Ziauddin Sardar, “Preface”, in Orientalism (Concepts in the Social Sciences), Buckingham, Buckinghamshire; Philadelphia, Pa.: Open…. From the entry retrench
  • Recent scholarship on colonial history has demonstrated that British America was not simply an English but rather a multicultural society.1996, Charles Patrick Neimeyer, “A True Pell-mell of Human Souls: The Germans in the Continental Army”, in America at War: A Social…. From the entry monolith
  • An example of this is recent scholarship on whiteness.1995, Lois Weis, “Identity Formation and the Process of ‘Othering’: Unraveling Sexual Threads”, in Educational Foundations: A Journal…. From the entry othering
  • In the old days of scholarship of F.M.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry prelogical
  • But the high traditions of scholarship must be maintained, and on these pages Meester Kitsch will masquerade as Mr.1956, Morris Halle, editor, For Roman Jakobson, page 332. From the entry háček
  • Many of the institutions reported monies available and awarded without reporting the number of scholarships represented by these sums.1951, Theresa Birch Wilkins, Scholarships and Fellowships Available at Institutions of Higher Education, page 1. From the entry monies
  • English studies are now vigorously pursued in our universities, and the childhood of Anglistic scholarship now lies definitely in the past.1930, Kemp Malone, “The Terminology of Anglistics.”, in The English Journal, volume 19, number 8, →JSTOR, page 639. From the entry Anglistic
  • That they can, with a straight face, praise it as good scholarship calls into question whether they can any longer recognize even passable scholarship.2026, Michael Anton, “Fury Road”, in The Claremont Review of Books, The Claremont Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry bilge
  • He wrote aspirational scholarship, introduced me to his colleagues, read and graciously critiqued my work, and answered all my questions about the professoriate.2017, Alisha Gaines, “Acknowledgments”, in Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy, Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of…. From the entry blackademic

Meaning of scholarship

  1. noun A grant-in-aid to a student.
  2. noun The character or qualities of a scholar.
  3. noun The activity, methods or attainments of a scholar.

Full definition of scholarship

Questions about scholarship in a sentence

How do you use scholarship in a sentence?
Scholarship is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He said he wanted a fair go to apply for the scholarship.”
What is a short sentence with scholarship?
“I'll go if I get a scholarship.”
What does scholarship mean?
Scholarship means a grant-in-aid to a student.

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