How to Use vocational in a Sentence

vocational

adjective
  • There were no vocational schools in Brazil that taught the craft.
    — Helena Madden, Robb Report, 13 Mar. 2021
  • The desire to feel at peace about finances may prompt vocational shifts.
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
  • College is the first choice, with vocational tracks as a fallback.
    — Daniel Foster, National Review, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Nihill was shoved into a vocational program and most of his friends dropped out of school.
    — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • That money grows tax-free and can later be used for college or vocational school.
    — Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The program does not have the type of vocational aspect in which students hold part-time jobs.
    — George Castle, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The boys were working at the business as part of a vocational program.
    — cleveland, 1 Oct. 2020
  • If a child chooses not to go to college, the money can also be used for vocational schools.
    — Ann Carrns, New York Times, 25 May 2018
  • Betz was working in the prison's vocational tech department at the time.
    — Andy Marso and Tony Rizzo, kansascity, 5 June 2018
  • And many said that vocational and career training should be increased.
    — Patrick O'Donnell, cleveland.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Bernadette puts on a brown dress and gets ready for her vocational training, in a classroom at the Centre.
    — Caterina Clerici & Eléonore Hamelin, Marie Claire, 1 Feb. 2019
  • So the camp teaches these kids vocational skills in a camp-like environment.
    — Lori Riley, courant.com, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Instead of skin color, test scores and vocational tracking became a way to keep the color line.
    — Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, Time, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Max received vocational training to design and stitch ladies’ leather purses and shoes.
    — Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Her father, Samuel Malakoff, was a teacher at a vocational high school.
    — New York Times, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Giles talked about building a vocational school for young people in Evanston.
    — NBC News, 2 June 2021
  • The decades long push to remove vocational training from high schools has resulted in a shortage of a skilled labor force.
    — Amanda Walker, AL.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • My friend Hoke told me of his own vocational crisis following the election.
    — Fred Bahnson, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Fewer young men are pursuing the trades or a vocational education, and some can’t pass a drug test.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2017
  • The people need to be trained in new technology, vocational trades where they can be taught to be self-sufficient.
    — Jeff Caplan, star-telegram.com, 2 June 2017
  • When the priest approached the owner of a private vocational school to see about opening it to everyone, he was rebuffed.
    — New York Times, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Plans for a vocational charter school in Hamilton County won't get out of the workshop.
    — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Nov. 2024
  • There is also a good spread of the kind of jobs refugees do, from ‘skilled’ and vocational professions to hospitality and tourism.
    — Frey Lindsay, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
  • Tiger Perk is a pre-vocational job skills training program for students in grades 7-12.
    — Ed Wittenberg, cleveland.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Members of staff from all over this large, wide-ranging vocational college have trooped down to meet the girl who wanted to learn about cutting up animals.
    — Olivia Potts, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The sculpture was built in 1995 by inmates using steel and sheet metal as a vocational project.
    — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The sculpture was built in 1995 by inmates using steel and sheet metal as a vocational project.
    — Yutao Chen, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The World Bank says users of mini-grids may need microfinance and vocational training to make best use of it.
    — The Economist, 12 July 2018
  • Their work was serving the needs of their community and training Black people for vocational skills.
    — Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 21 Jan. 2026
  • This could be one of two major expansions of vocational education in the district.
    — Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026

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