How to Use tuition in a Sentence

tuition

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  • Her uncle agreed to pay part of her tuition.
  • There's going to be a tuition increase next year.
  • Before the company transferred her to Mexico, they offered her private tuition in Spanish.
  • And these are just the starting rates (tuition, room and board, fees).
    — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 22 Sep. 2022
  • That means more funds for schools, child care, health care, college tuition, and roads.
    — Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2023
  • And that, in turn, could inspire colleges to hike their tuition.
    — Sarah Bedford, Washington Examiner, 4 July 2023
  • In-state tuition rates rank among the most affordable in the Midwest.
    — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2024
  • The grant, split between the Thompsons and the school, covers about 75% of tuition and fees that are fixed for the duration of their college years.
    — Janet Lorin, Fortune, 2 May 2024
  • For my parents, this would mean tuition paid, uniforms made, one less child to worry about.
    — Safiya Sinclair, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • The tuition free status will apply to all new and returning students in the program.
    — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Biden is a villain, but the biggest villains are the colleges that charge ridiculous tuition.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The remainder of the tuition was paid and Pinkney became a college graduate.
    — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
  • His parents, who ran a print shop, struggled to make ends meet and at times didn’t have enough money to pay their children’s tuition at a Catholic school.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2022
  • About 87% of Cal State students have their tuition fully or partly covered by grants and aid.
    — Ashley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The preschool will have 17 students in the fall, 15 of whom will have free tuition through Multnomah County’s Preschool for All initiative.
    — Austindedios, oregonlive, 18 Aug. 2023
  • That translates to more than $8 million in tuition, fees, and room and board over the four years of those students’ educations.
    — Jon Marcus, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The cost of preschool child care is a growing problem in Alaska, one of 33 states where the annual cost of day care exceeds the cost of college tuition.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Fidelity will pay the schools directly for the tuition, fees, and taxes.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The city has also seen soaring costs for children’s private school tuition.
    — Troy Closson, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Students get a $7,500 scholarship for both freshman and sophomore years to help defray the cost of tuition.
    — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2024
  • That's despite a slowdown in tuition hikes during Covid.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 24 Aug. 2022
  • That's why tuition (up until recent years) has grown at sometimes triple the rate of inflation.
    — Lilia Luciano, CBS News, 9 June 2024
  • This is equivalent to a full in-state tuition scholarship for an HBCU student.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 21 Jan. 2024
  • That increase can be attributed in part to a startling rise in college tuition.
    — Christina Prignano, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Elected to the Arizona state House in 2010, Gallego led the charge to grant in-state tuition status to veterans living in Arizona.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 23 Jan. 2023
  • It is required to pay such tuition when public schools fail to serve students with disabilities, who make up a fifth of all pupils.
    — Troy Closson, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2023
  • There are plenty of unicorn start-up-worthy accoutrements to back up that tuition cost.
    — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Our grandchild went to a great state university with low tuition.
    — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2024
  • School vouchers are state funds families can use to cover tuition at private schools that accept them.
    — Hannah Pinski, The Courier-Journal, 15 Oct. 2024
  • That involved hands-on processing tuition from chef Albert Wutsch.
    — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 15 Oct. 2024

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