How to Use junior college in a Sentence

junior college

noun
  • A lot of those kids now have to go to junior college.
    — Langston Wertz Jr, Charlotte Observer, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Same thing with junior college kids.
    — Mitch Light, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Namdi has come a long way from those junior college days.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The knee injury forced him to spend two seasons in junior college.
    — Andy McCullough, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Rippy took her shopping, and drove her back and forth to junior college.
    — Michael Gordon, Charlotte Observer, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The girls have enrolled in school — the two eldest in junior college.
    — CBS News, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Drake, like Trentadue, was a mid-to-late round draft choice who came from the junior college ranks.
    — Shawn McFarland, Dallas Morning News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • But Smith did not want to go to junior college and enrolled at Metro.
    — Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post, 16 Mar. 2025
  • The road has been a long one for Massey, a former junior college transfer.
    — Ian Cohen, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 Oct. 2017
  • The former junior college product will now be looking for a new home.
    — Antonio Morales, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The undrafted signee who spent just a few seasons in junior college is putting on a show with his bat.
    — Matt Lively, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Will the Ducks secure two of the nation’s top five junior college prospects?
    — oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2021
  • His father played junior college football, and the two bonded over the sport.
    — oregonlive, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Point guard Craig Beaudion played two years of junior college.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Not two seasons in exchange for those two at the junior college level, but one … which, sure.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 21 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • All are high school seniors, except for two junior college transfers.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Council played two years at a junior college and three at the mid-major/major level.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2026
  • But this is not your average junior college program.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The school expanded, with the addition of a girls' school and a junior college.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 11 May 2022
  • 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
  • The Astros drafted you in the 16th round out of a junior college.
    — Annie Heilbrunn, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • One of the top junior college tight ends in the country but didn’t blossom until last year with the Hoosiers.
    — Jim Owczarski, Cincinnati.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Fall is a junior college transfer who can be drafted again in 2020.
    — Jeff Metcalfe, azcentral, 15 July 2019
  • The junior college transfer has 13 points, two steals and one block in 22 minutes.
    — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Lupoi recruited Richardson out of junior college to try and lure him to Cal.
    — Dan Labbe, cleveland.com, 5 June 2019
  • All high school, junior college and college sports stopped in the second week of March due to the pandemic.
    — NBC News, 13 June 2020
  • The eight-part series focused on junior college athletes across the country seeking to turn their lives around through sports.
    — Terry Collins, USA Today, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Madsen did not play high school football, walked on to a junior college team and earned a scholarship with the Utes.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland.com, 29 Aug. 2019

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