cap and gown
Example Sentences
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Her mother sold Gibson’s stuffed animals and her own jewelry to afford her high-school graduation cap and gown.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
In her graduation photo, De Santiago stares the camera down, resplendent in her black satin cap and gown.
From Salon • Mar. 21, 2025
Sophia did not wear the typical cap and gown that commencement speakers usually don, but instead wore a black-and-red D’Youville University hoodie.
From New York Times • May 15, 2024
They all went to her graduation ceremony to see her don her cap and gown and take to the stage.
From BBC • Dec. 27, 2023
Several years later someone snapped Mama Lessie’s photo-graph in her black graduation cap and gown.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
