alma mater

Example Sentences

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Now check how much the average professor makes at your alma mater.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

He often hires recent graduates of his alma mater to be his law clerks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026

Then they went onto the football field to learn some lessons at the fifth annual Trenton Irwin football camp on Sunday morning held at his alma mater, Hart High.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026

Certainly West Point, Lincoln’s alma mater, wasn’t training such people.

From Slate • Feb. 9, 2026

So said Agatha Swanburne, according to a great many hand-stitched pillows at Penelope’s alma mater.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood