scholarship

Example Sentences

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He won a scholarship to Eton College after attending a state primary school, and studied mathematics at Pembroke College, Oxford.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Tolkan landed a scholarship to the college, but his academic career was short-lived, and he left to enlist in the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

Silva Júnior is the first author of the study, which was conducted during an internship at the University of Tübingen in Germany with a scholarship from FAPESP.

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

In other cases, the schools might provide a full scholarship to a student with good grades and test scores to help boost a school’s ranking even though that student’s family could afford to pay.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026

The son of a cobbler from South Africa, Brenner had come to England to study biology on a scholarship; like Watson and Crick, he too had become entranced by Watson’s “religion of genes” and DNA.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee