How to Use matriculate in a Sentence

matriculate

verb
  • There are still some bills that have yet to matriculate over from the legislature.
    — Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 6 Mar. 2026
  • How fast can first base prospect Bryce Eldridge matriculate to the big leagues?
    — Andrew Baggarly, The Athletic, 17 Aug. 2024
  • All students in every school had to take and pass a music class in order to matriculate.
    — Rashad Shabazz, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2020
  • All students in every school had to take and pass a music class in order to matriculate.
    — Rashad Shabazz, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Most prospects take three to four years to matriculate to the NHL level.
    — Jordan McPherson, miamiherald, 27 June 2018
  • Some students are still waiting to get award letters and have not matriculated.
    — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Does this school not have some sort of expert on the subject, given the number of werewolves who matriculate?
    — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Even most uber-smart players don’t matriculate to the ball so effortlessly.
    — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Its enrollment numbers show a steep drop in matriculating students over the past decade.
    — Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Kimmel kept moving the chains, steadily matriculating down the field.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2024
  • One of the major challenges of matriculating to the senior class is learning to ask for a rightful handout.
    — Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 May 2018
  • Does Trump love Pruitt's loyalty and ability to matriculate the ball down the field most?
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Most people who graduate from college do not matriculate from Ivy League schools.
    — James Unnever, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 May 2025
  • He was set to matriculate at Harvard in the fall of that year, according to Miranda.
    — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Jacob knows no one, having matriculated at the rez school, and this is Edward’s seventh time going there.
    — Vulture, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Medical students matriculate early and health-care workers come out of retirement to fill staffing gaps.
    — Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Rather, Yale Law School seems to accept and matriculate a pretty diverse array of thinkers.
    — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Stram talking about 65 Toss Power Trap and matriculating the ball down field was gold.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Nicholas Perera is matriculating to Alabama next year to swim.
    — John Snodgrass, Cincinnati.com, 24 Feb. 2018
  • From there, select graduates have matriculated at US boarding/prep schools and then gone on to college.
    — Brian Straus, SI.com, 30 June 2017
  • After deferring for a year, Kim matriculated with the class of 2023 last fall.
    — Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Nearly two-thirds of dual-enrollment students who first matriculated at a four-year college earned a post-secondary award within five years after high school.
    — Lisa Ward, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2019
  • Just as millions of first-year college students matriculate for the first time, millions of parents stand ready to transition into a new stage of parental support and guidance.
    — Peter Dunn, Indianapolis Star, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Guys such as Steven Cruz and Luinder Avila have matriculated through the minors.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 10 Mar. 2026
  • In order to acquire the player, Bowman dealt a draft pick with good value and a prospect defenceman who is still matriculating toward his career peak.
    — Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Students matriculate through grades without demonstrating a real mastery of standard.
    — Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
  • The unspoken assumption that, of course, families would step up and pay — parents, really, in the case of most students hoping to matriculate straight from high school.
    — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Time Just as millions of first-year college students matriculate for the first time, millions of parents stand ready to transition into a new stage of parental support and guidance.
    — Peter Dunn, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2017
  • The population of people in college peaked in 2010, the year after my class matriculated.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Way matriculated through Kansas City’s minor-league system.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 6 June 2026

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