How to Use mortarboard in a Sentence

mortarboard

noun
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  • The students donned robes and mortarboards for graduation.
  • Law school grads will don their mortarboard caps on May 19 this year.
    — Eugene Register-Guard, OregonLive.com, 5 May 2018
  • Meza then moved the tassel from one side of Hannah’s mortarboard to the other.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2022
  • Most of the cats were not willing to wear their mortarboards, preferring to chew the corners or bat at the tassels instead.
    — Karla Peterson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The RiseUP mural shows a young woman wearing a mortarboard, a globe in the background, like a halo.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 26 Sep. 2020
  • His tweet, with the hashtag gsu18 and a photo of him with mortarboard atop his white hair, connected with people.
    — Matt Kempner, ajc, 14 May 2018
  • The name combines a lucky color and a lucky number, but that doesn’t help me, or the ladies with matching visors, or the recent grad dressed to the nines and wearing her mortarboard: There’s an hourlong wait.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2019
  • Inside or outside though, the graduates still moved their mortarboard tassels from right to left and received their diplomas.
    — Tracy Maness, Houston Chronicle, 18 June 2020
  • More and more, Bock has noticed political themes on mortarboards.
    — Rachel Leingang, azcentral, 11 May 2018
  • You have been instructed to remove the clumsy black mortarboard at this point in the commencement ceremony.
    — Joyce Carol Oates, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
  • DellaVecchia, who stood out in the crowd of 175 graduates because of the lime green and pink decorations on her mortarboard, is following her passion in the fall by attending culinary school.
    — Bill Leukhardt, courant.com, 15 June 2017
  • The material is taped to a cable beneath the helicopter's solar panel, which is perched on top like a graduate's mortarboard.
    — Marcia Dunn, The Enquirer, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The material is taped to a cable beneath the helicopter’s solar panel, which is perched on top like a graduate’s mortarboard.
    — NBC News, 24 Mar. 2021
  • After the cap-and-gown photo, teachers grabbed videos of each senior flipping their tassel and throwing their mortarboard in faux celebration, all within a few hundred yards of their old high school.
    — Corbett Smith, Dallas News, 13 June 2020
  • Jenna will pin her picture inside her graduation gown, and tuck another photo of her mom in her mortarboard.
    — Karen Herzog, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 May 2017
  • And even though there won't be any official graduation ceremonies, encourage your grad to walk across the room proudly to receive her diploma, don his robes, joyously throw his mortarboard in the air.
    — Kelsey Hurwitz, Woman's Day, 28 Apr. 2020
  • With the gradual approach of summer, this year's batch of new graduates is gearing up to toss their caps and mortarboards, set gifted flowers in water, and deposit any congratulatory checks.
    — refinery29.com, 9 May 2018
  • In addition, those baristas who have graduated from the Starbucks College Achievement Plan receive an apron embroidered with a mortarboard.
    — Melissa Minton, Bon Appetit, 25 July 2017
  • Here are some of the ways past graduating students from Southern California high schools and colleges expressed their creativity on their mortarboards.
    — Miriam Velasquez, Orange County Register, 2 May 2017
  • Angela Analoak-Bordenelli beaded forget-me-nots into her mortarboard.
    — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2021
  • Many graduates decorated the top of their mortarboards, including Danielle Adaska.
    — Karie Angell Luc, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2018
  • Here are some of the ways graduating students from California high schools and colleges expressed their creativity on their mortarboards, with messages funny, inspiring and touching.
    — Miriam Velasquez, The Mercury News, 3 May 2017
  • While engineering students are known to construct the best mortarboards, students at Friday morning’s ceremony held their own for creativity.
    — Gary Warth, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 May 2017
  • Once outside, following tradition, graduate Sarah Bacho gleefully threw her mortarboard into the air.
    — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 15 May 2020
  • Gone are the ceremonial tours through elementary school hallways, stadium processions and mass mortarboard tosses.
    — oregonlive, 30 Apr. 2020

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