How to Use university in a Sentence

university

noun
  • He lives near the university.
  • I applied to several public universities.
  • My son is in university and lives with me.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2025
  • That’s the price of a free university.
    — Jonathan Zimmerman, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
  • These are colleagues that have had a long time with the university.
    — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 11 June 2026
  • Students will reach for these tools, whether universities ban them or not.
    — Maximilian Milovidov, NPR, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Even by the very university where this research took place.
    — Marcy Thompson, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Before the war, schools and universities were places of dreams.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The university did not offer a cause of death.
    — Brendan Marks, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • At least one of the victims is known to be a student at the university.
    — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
  • He was put on leave after his arrest, the university said at the time.
    — Silas Morgan, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 May 2026
  • Low-cost state colleges and universities serve many more.
    — Yolanda Watson Spiva, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Why are you guys so obsessed with who went to this boarding school or this university?
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at a Utah university last week.
    — Luke Barr, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2025
  • If it’s been spent down, that’s a sign the university may be tapping it to plug budget holes.
    — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 26 Dec. 2024
  • None of those victims were students, the university said at the time.
    — Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The trustees want what's best for the university, board chair John Zeiger said.
    — Julie Carr Smyth The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Yes — but only if the university is doing its job.
    — Jerry Balentine, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The university produced a report on the radar findings as part of its work on the site.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 July 2023
  • In this respect, universities bear some blame for their own decline.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • And thank you to the staff who have supported me during my time at the university.
    — Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Schools and universities were closed.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
  • And so began a series of university jobs that would take her around the country.
    — Marcy Thompson, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The university had a rare-books library.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
  • People wishing to add to the fund may do so at the university’s website.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2023
  • Abugharbieh had dropped out of the university.
    — Mike Schneider, Sun Sentinel, 1 May 2026
  • The cart has also serviced events at mosques and universities.
    — Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Riley took the film on a tour of 11 universities.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 22 May 2026
  • The university has not yet hired an architect to design the new venues.
    — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Mar. 2022
  • We are told that to refuse this threatens the existence of the university.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026

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