How to Use fraternity in a Sentence

fraternity

noun
  • But the fraternity’s out in full force.
    — Austin Meek, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The limo parked in front of his former fraternity house at the school.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Who wouldn’t want to have a mil in the bank before his first fraternity rush party?
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 22 July 2021
  • These men make up a tragic fraternity of strangers, linked by their common ends.
    — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Back at the fraternity house, Gordie passed out and never woke up.
    — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Still, the fraternity members picked him up and returned him to the couch.
    — Peter D'abrosca , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Kicking is a fraternity of its own, but a football team needs one kicker at a time.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 2022
  • A lot of our fraternity brothers came and will see it another time.
    — Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2026
  • This leads the duo to fraternity parties, slam poetry nights and to events at spring break.
    — New York Times, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Now on the outside, the growing ranks of exonerees have formed a unique fraternity.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2022
  • The team was a small fraternity of eight or so men who ate lunch together in a special trailer.
    — Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2022
  • The loss of a coach’s wife resonates with anyone in the coaching fraternity.
    — Cody Thorn, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Spangler, who is in his last year of study, works part-time, belongs to a fraternity and lives in an apartment.
    — al, 19 Dec. 2021
  • There was a great feeling of fraternity between all the people.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Before her, two figures ― a soldier and sailor ― clasp hands in fraternity.
    — Bill Steiden, Des Moines Register, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Here are the four players who have a shot at being a part of one of the more exclusive fraternities in all of the sports.
    — Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
  • On the one-year mark of his death, the fraternity plans to plant a tree in his memory outside the chapter house.
    — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 11 Feb. 2024
  • What happened at the fraternity event?
    — Michelle Cruz, AZCentral.com, 18 Feb. 2026
  • This doesn’t mean fraternities are perfect.
    — Anthony V. MacK, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The fraternity says the chapter no longer exists and was defunct when Larsen sued.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Soon a pair of fraternity brothers who had tested positive — and had lost their sense of taste and smell — were sent to join him.
    — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Call it a fraternity of stink, and Carson is the newest member.
    — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Others in the football fraternity reached out, Evans said.
    — ABC News, 8 June 2026
  • Sigma Chi, the fraternity Chapin belonged to, has its flag at half-staff.
    — Kendall Coughlin, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The plan had support in the baseball coaching fraternity.
    — Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Ailes had never much cared for Carlson’s preppy, fraternity-rush-chair shtick.
    — Jason Zengerle, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
  • In hockey’s past fraternities, comfort was granted over time.
    — Dan Robson, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • But in the early days, the top floor of 57 Broadway housed a small creative fraternity.
    — Henry Wiencek july 22, Literary Hub, 22 July 2025
  • They were squeezed into the schedule, played on a baseball field, and told they would no longer be welcomed in the Olympic fraternity.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2021
  • Oakes was pledging the fraternity and was supposed to be introduced to the big brother who would guide him through Greek life.
    — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2021

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