How to Use academy in a Sentence

academy

noun
  • The academy must have loved his short and sweet speech.
    — Saba Hamedy, NBC news, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Due to lack of funds, the next academy class has been canceled.
    — Paul Novack, Sun Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2024
  • So the race and the academy process, that's my favorite part of the movie.
    — Heather Newman, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Thank you so much to the academy for this honor of a lifetime.
    — Vulture, 12 Mar. 2023
  • That is not to say the two film academies are completely in sync.
    — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2026
  • So how do academies get their players?
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In some sections, the walls still reach over 8 feet high, the academy said.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2025
  • But the film academy is hoping to lighten the mood — at least for one night.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2025
  • For those of us who love the academy, these are unhappy times.
    — Stephen L. Carter, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2024
  • At the academy, cadets lived in barracks with metal bunk beds in neat rows.
    — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Jane sets off for law school, while her brother heads to the police academy.
    — Hamilton Cain, Time, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Trejo counts himself among those whose lives have been changed by the academy.
    — Theresa Cisneros, Orange County Register, 1 Aug. 2024
  • People who came after me (through the academy ranks) found the same thing.
    — Gregg Evans, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
  • If no one ever does, a youth academy is pointless.
    — Philipp Lahm, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The academy’s goal is to raise it even higher – to $25 an hour.
    — Ariel Gilreath, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Here’s a list of which actors received nods from the academy for their work for the first time.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Immigration law used to be a five or six-month course at the academy.
    — Philip Wang, Time, 14 Jan. 2026
  • All because a bunch of men in the academy found the movie too preachy and a bit threatening.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
  • There’s not a lot of Black men and gender scholars in the academy.
    — Tirhakah Love, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2023
  • And once seized, then the assets of that academy begin to be sold off at discount prices.
    — Milton Guevara, NPR, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The loan was going to put him ahead of his peers in Feyenoord’s academy.
    — Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The recruit plans to return to the academy and become a deputy.
    — Mona Darwish, Orange County Register, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Some might have the advantage of in-house trainers or even an academy.
    — Thomas Lim, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Lundy has left the water polo team while staying at the academy.
    — Glae Thien, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Martin went on to coach and manage Brighton and is now an academy scout at the club.
    — Andy Naylor, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Three years ago, Spain opened a foiling academy in Cadiz.
    — Andrew Rice, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Can any academy player break through before the end of the season?
    — Carl Anka, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The Marriott closed due to flooding, but the academy’s chapel was open by the next week.
    — Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Now, there’s nobody else in the academy that day, there are reviews leading up to it, a lot of thought.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • And new arrivals haven’t kept up — with the last two academy classes of just 23 apiece.
    — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024

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