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Usage examples of graduation.

Named in honour of famed local authoress Laura Chase, the first Prize will be presented at Graduation in June.

Every girl of the class would have three beautiful new frocks for Commencement: one for the baccalaureate sermon, another, which could be plain, for graduation exercises, and a handsome one for the banquet and ball.

Still, he was hopeful that he could connect with Cushie on graduation weekend.

In the summer after his graduation from high school he single-handed a thirty-one-foot Pacific Seacraft cutter in the San Francisco-to-Honolulu race, coming in third on corrected time.

In celebration of their graduation from the prestigious Intersystem Academy, Ariana had talked a group of her friends into venturing to the infamous outpost of Lodder Vale at the outskirts of the Border Territory.

After the graduation exercises were over, they were all standing around congratulating her when two girls walked up and asked Betty Raye if she was going to the party over at Cascade Plunge.

Betty Raye had wanted to get a job after graduation but she was not equipped to do anything that required intimate dealings with the public or being outgoing in any way.

And, in typical Hugh Rodham fashion, he flew to Boston late the night before, stayed out by the airport, took the MTA to campus, attended graduation, came to the Wellesley Inn for lunch with some of my friends and their families and then went right back home.

After graduation, Sha had performed spectacularly in battle, and Gren had received steady reports of his promotions.

Leon Stica, in high school and married him after graduation when he became a policeman in the Bergen County Police Department.

Immediately on his graduation he was called to a tutorship in the college, which position he held until the outbreak of the war.

When Elizabeth majored in accounting and had a chance to buy into a new insurance brokerage firm soon after graduation, he refused to help.

Dean had had a glorious graduation summer of it, though Jessie saw too little of him, and Pappoose nothing at all after the breakup of the class.

One week after he gave the salutatorian address at his graduation, he tidied his room, took a .

I mean, I had a long and sucky school career that ended three months short of graduation.