How to Use bachelor in a Sentence

bachelor

noun
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  • One of the bachelors is a billionaire, and everyone’s trying to end up with him.
    — Eli Grober, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Women have earned the majority of bachelor’s degrees in the U.S. since the early 1980s.
    — Lindsay Ellis, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Hopefully one of these 25 bachelors will check all of her boxes.
    — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 16 June 2023
  • However, the proportion of stay-at-home dads with a bachelor’s degree has increased over the past three decades.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Riley was set to graduate with a bachelor’s in nursing in 2025.
    — Jamiel Lynch, CNN, 24 Feb. 2024
  • That means the lack of college degrees can’t be ignored, since Blacks and Hispanics are least likely to have a bachelor’s degree.
    — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
  • People with a bachelor’s degree or higher have lost little, if any, height.
    — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Less than 30% of the population holds a bachelor’s degree or higher.
    — Jess Lander, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Apr. 2023
  • James Severe was on parole while pursuing a bachelor’s degree in New York.
    — Malaika Jabali, Essence, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Eighty-six percent have to borrow toward a bachelor’s degree.
    — Jon Marcus, USA TODAY, 15 May 2023
  • Butler is on track to get a bachelor’s degree in business with an emphasis in entrepreneurship.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2024
  • In 2021, the average American with a bachelor’s degree could expect to live eight years longer than somebody without one.
    — David Leonhardt, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • There are plenty of people without a bachelor’s who make more than the median and plenty with a bachelor’s who make less, but the people in the middle show just how much a degree can be worth.
    — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 9 July 2023
  • Workers with a bachelor’s degree or more advanced degrees (27 percent) are more than twice as likely as those with a high school diploma (12 percent) to see the most exposure.
    — Taylor Telford, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
  • My degree is a bachelor of science, an actual four-year degree.
    — Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2023
  • Rales received his bachelor's of arts and science from Miami University in Ohio and now resides in Maryland with his wife.
    — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Anyone who has searched for a job in today’s market knows that finding employment (with a bachelor’s degree, no less) is a daunting and arduous task.
    — Felice León, Essence, 24 July 2023
  • Danielle has a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and English from the University of Missouri.
    — Danielle Zoellner, Verywell Health, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Mark, on the other hand, doesn’t have any hugging options, being a bachelor who at one point takes a break from the play to attend the funeral of his last living relative in Amsterdam.
    — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Swayne has a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Alabama.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Taking the time to be a supplemental instructor and help your classmates while getting your bachelor's and master's degrees.
    — Simrin Singh, CBS News, 11 May 2023
  • Despite its small size, McPherson is lauded as the only school in the United States that offers a bachelor’s degree in automotive restoration.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 21 July 2023
  • Stern earned a bachelor’s degree in music and English from Harvard University, Ford said in its release.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Dropping college degree requirements opens these jobs to candidates who have a high school diploma but not a bachelor’s degree.
    — Rafael Castaneda, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Stryker received a bachelor’s degree in athletic training from Penn State in 2021.
    — Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 15 Apr. 2023
  • One data point in the report that was striking was that for the majority of families that are struggling, at least one person in the household has at least some college credit or a bachelor’s degree.
    — James Barron, New York Times, 1 May 2023
  • But the average life expectancy for someone without a bachelor’s degree shrank, falling from nearly 77 to 75 years.
    — Rick Wartzman, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Katie Price, who has a bachelor’s degree in deaf education and is already fairly fluent in American Sign Language, is one of those students.
    — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 July 2023
  • The pandemic meant her bachelor’s program at the University of Mount Olive was entirely online.
    — USA Today, 7 June 2023
  • About half marry someone with the same diploma status, compared with about 40 percent of people with bachelor’s degrees and 30 percent of people with master’s degrees.
    — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 16 June 2023

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