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How to use varsity in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Varsity means university. Example: “Junior varsity couldn't play their way out of a paper bag in comparison.”

Examples of varsity by meaning

nounThe principal sports team representing an institution (usually a high school, college, or university.).

  • There were sixteen of them in all, for the most part upper classmen who had failed to make the varsity the year before, with a sprinkling of sophomores and two freshmen.1903, Ralph Henry Barbour, C. M. Relyea, Weatherby's Inning: A Story of College Life and Baseball, New York: D. Appleton and Company
  • A small Pennsylvania university has only one varsity program: e-sports.2019 November 13, Luke Winkie, “Why Colleges Are Betting Big on Video Games”, in The Atlantic

More sentences with varsity

  • Junior varsity couldn't play their way out of a paper bag in comparison.From the entry way out of a paper bag
  • If you want to play varsity, you'll have to try out for the team.From the entry try out
  • He was a freshman who could be drafted up to the varsity team.From the entry draft up
  • We got third place in the varsity four.From the entry four
  • The junior varsity team is unready for a serious competition; a lot of training remains to be done.From the entry unready
  • The AHS junior varsity stickwomen also continued to roll with 2-0 victories over both Wilmington and Tewksbury.1991 September 26, Rick Harrison, “Field hockey team posts win, loss and tie”, in Andover Townsman, 105th year, number 3, Andover…. From the entry stickwoman
  • The high school varsity basketball team, under Bernie's able coaching, was fourteen and three for the season, and Bernie was greatly torqued about the three.2002, Dana Stabenow, A Fine and Bitter Snow, →ISBN, page 52. From the entry torqued
  • You’re dropping down on port with every catch,” he observed to the varsity eight as it sped upstream rowing at full pressure.1988 April 21, Alice Digilio, “Crew making a splash in area high schools”, in The Washington Post. From the entry on keel
  • At any other school you would be playing varsity, and Wallace has you pigeon-holed on the subs." "Maybe he has his reasons," Jim replied.1930, Boy's Live, Philip Scruggs, There Can Be Victory, page 20. From the entry sub

Meaning of varsity

  1. noun University.
  2. noun The principal sports team representing an institution (usually a high school, college, or university.).

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Questions about varsity in a sentence

How do you use varsity in a sentence?
Varsity is used as a noun. For example: “Junior varsity couldn't play their way out of a paper bag in comparison.”
What is a short sentence with varsity?
“We got third place in the varsity four.”
What does varsity mean?
Varsity means university.

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