How to Use junior college in a Sentence

junior college

noun
  • The former junior college transfer was the star of the day.
    — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The girls have enrolled in school — the two eldest in junior college.
    — CBS News, 28 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Will the Ducks secure two of the nation’s top five junior college prospects?
    — oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The school expanded, with the addition of a girls' school and a junior college.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 11 May 2022
  • The junior college transfer has 13 points, two steals and one block in 22 minutes.
    — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 13 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • All are in their first year at ASU, White out of junior college and the other two freshmen.
    — Jeff Metcalfe, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2020
  • His father played junior college football, and the two bonded over the sport.
    — oregonlive, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Becoming the starting punter for the Ducks is at the very least ahead of schedule for the junior college transfer.
    — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Duece and Phat Watts, both starting, were in junior college.
    — G Smith, NOLA.com, 6 Oct. 2020
  • 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 Mean Green really need Turpin and Gray, a pair of junior college transfers, to be ready to play right away.
    — Brett Vito, Denton Record-Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2020
  • His junior college ties would be a plus at Missouri, too.
    — John Talty | Jtalty@al.com, al, 2 Dec. 2019
  • White calls his time in junior college the most crucial part of his journey to the NFL playoffs.
    — Andrés Soto, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2024
  • The Sox selected him in the 1982 draft out of a junior college in Florida.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Rippy took her shopping, and drove her back and forth to junior college.
    — Michael Gordon, Charlotte Observer, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Long is counting on junior college transfers Joah Robinett and Jalil Lecky to be in the mix.
    — Kirk Kenney, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • All high school, junior college and college sports stopped in the second week of March due to the pandemic.
    — NBC News, 13 June 2020
  • Thomas committed to the Bearcats, wound up making the grades, and avoided going to a junior college, at least for a while.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Dec. 2021
  • White was a no-star recruit, who worked his way from Division II to junior college to the Pac-12.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The 5-foot-10 junior college transfer has speed and size to compete for major snaps at Louisville.
    — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 27 July 2021
  • Point guard Craig Beaudion played two years of junior college.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 11 Mar. 2021
  • But her players at Mesabi Range, a junior college in Virginia, Minn., have been more awestruck.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2022
  • The junior college product has a lot of upside and has the size to play a variety of techniques in a 4-3 or 3-4 defense.
    — Scott Horner, Indianapolis Star, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Lupoi recruited Richardson out of junior college to try and lure him to Cal.
    — Dan Labbe, cleveland.com, 5 June 2019
  • 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
  • Fall is a junior college transfer who can be drafted again in 2020.
    — Jeff Metcalfe, azcentral, 15 July 2019
  • His father Sam pitched at Elmhurst, and his older brother Sammy pitched for the Redwings and at the junior college level.
    — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025

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