How to Use junior college in a Sentence

junior college

noun
Definition of junior collegenext
  • The girls have enrolled in school — the two eldest in junior college.
    — CBS News, 28 Oct. 2022
  • About 70 went to freshmen and the rest went to junior college transfers.
    — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
  • Scrubb was the junior college player of the year and will receive one of the team’s two two-way contracts.
    — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Will the Ducks secure two of the nation’s top five junior college prospects?
    — oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The school expanded, with the addition of a girls' school and a junior college.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 11 May 2022
  • The junior college transfer has 13 points, two steals and one block in 22 minutes.
    — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 13 Dec. 2021
  • All are in their first year at ASU, White out of junior college and the other two freshmen.
    — Jeff Metcalfe, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2020
  • His father played junior college football, and the two bonded over the sport.
    — oregonlive, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Becoming the starting punter for the Ducks is at the very least ahead of schedule for the junior college transfer.
    — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Duece and Phat Watts, both starting, were in junior college.
    — G Smith, NOLA.com, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Leading up to the game, the Bison junior college club didn’t have any practices with pads on.
    — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Sep. 2021
  • White calls his time in junior college the most crucial part of his journey to the NFL playoffs.
    — Andrés Soto, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2024
  • The Sox selected him in the 1982 draft out of a junior college in Florida.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Thomas committed to the Bearcats, wound up making the grades, and avoided going to a junior college, at least for a while.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Dec. 2021
  • White was a no-star recruit, who worked his way from Division II to junior college to the Pac-12.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The 5-foot-10 junior college transfer has speed and size to compete for major snaps at Louisville.
    — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 27 July 2021
  • Point guard Craig Beaudion played two years of junior college.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 11 Mar. 2021
  • But her players at Mesabi Range, a junior college in Virginia, Minn., have been more awestruck.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2022
  • And last month, junior college transfer Koron Davis was dismissed from the team.
    — The Courier-Journal, 4 Jan. 2024
  • From walk-on to scout team to junior college and back to Georgia to lead the Bulldogs to the national championship.
    — Ryne Dennis, USA TODAY, 21 July 2022
  • His first season was a grayshirt year, the junior college equivalent of a redshirt.
    — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2022
  • Next up: junior college, where he was set to play basketball again.
    — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2023
  • But that’s far from the lone reason Smith impressed Parker right away in junior college.
    — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 17 Sep. 2020
  • The junior college transfer led the team in tackles while finishing 2nd in tackles for loss and third in sacks.
    — Dallas News, 21 May 2021
  • Of the eight who were drafted, two were junior college transfers in Jesse Williams and Quinton Dial.
    — Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 11 May 2021
  • Jones played guard in junior college and right tackle at MTSU.
    — David Furones, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Sep. 2021
  • The Terps added junior college transfer Aric Harris over the summer to help solve the depth issues.
    — Ryan McFadden, baltimoresun.com, 3 Sep. 2021
  • The Weatherford junior college pledge was second in the Dallas area with 10 home runs.
    — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 1 July 2021
  • Adams, a junior college transfer from Ajax, Ontario, is a versatile and agile guard with tackle flex.
    — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • While attending junior college in her hometown of Houston, Duvall was discovered by Altman staff members and talked into taking a screen test.
    — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 July 2024

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