How to Use fraternity in a Sentence

fraternity

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  • Chapin lived about 200 yards away, across the band field, at the Sigma Chi fraternity house and was spending the night.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • The divine nine is the name for the group of the nine Black fraternities and sororities that exist in The United States.
    — Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • On the one-year mark of his death, the fraternity plans to plant a tree in his memory outside the chapter house.
    — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Chapin was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, which has a frat house about 200 yards away.
    — Fox News, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Sigma Chi, the fraternity Chapin belonged to, has its flag at half-staff.
    — Kendall Coughlin, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Chapin and Kernodle were about 200 yards from the crime scene at a party in the Sigma Chi fraternity house, where Chapin was a member.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Chapin, Kernodle's boyfriend, lived in a fraternity house 200 yards away and was sleeping over.
    — Fox News, 10 Dec. 2022
  • The team was a small fraternity of eight or so men who ate lunch together in a special trailer.
    — Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Indeed, that is how members of that lethal fraternity see him.
    — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The tweet included three photographs of Fraser, one of which pictured him standing with a group of peers on the grounds of the MSU fraternity house.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Samuel Knight, his fraternity brother in the San Diego chapter said this is part of Logan’s legacy.
    — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Other fraternity members took Oakes and the other pledges outside to throw up on the lawn, but Oakes did not throw up, according to the lawsuit.
    — Michelle Watson, CNN, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The student was in Nashville with his Delta Chi fraternity members.
    — Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 21 Mar. 2024
  • And that night, the Heisman gala, where he was officially welcomed to the award’s fraternity as its 88th member.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Ferrell spent some time on the one’s and two’s at a tailgate hosted by Sigma Alpha Mu, his old fraternity.
    — Vulture, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Isabelle explained that fraternity pledges have to bring sorority dates to football games (and their date must sit with them the entire time).
    — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 24 May 2023
  • And this time, the two have the moment of life, fraternity and equality that the real Varda sought and never received from the M.I.A. gentleman.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Going to see Jack was like going to see a fraternity brother at a tailgate party.
    — Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The county said six of the homes were SDSU fraternity and sorority houses.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Oct. 2023
  • There is a coaching brotherhood, a fraternity, which is why, when one gets fired for a lack of success, he gets rehired by a crony somewhere else.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2023
  • The league could also draw the ire of Texas high school football head coaches, a celebrated fraternity who are often the best way to reach blue chip recruits.
    — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 7 June 2023
  • Chapin and Kernodle attended a party at Chapin's fraternity house from around 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.
    — Terry Collins, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Stone said some of his fraternity brothers barricaded the front, back, and bedroom doors as police searched for the suspect.
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2022
  • California was terra incognita to the tight fraternity of fliers on the East Coast and in Europe.
    — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Caleb is smitten with a fraternity brother who attends a party with Ana.
    — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The victims had been socializing the night before — Chapin and Kernodle, who were dating, at a fraternity house and Mogen and Goncalves at a downtown bar.
    — Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Viewers get a glimpse into college life in the South, the history of Black marching bands, and Black fraternities and sororities.
    — Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Investigators believe all four victims had been out in the hours before the killings – two at a Moscow bar, the other two at a fraternity house – but had returned to the home by 2 a.m. on the day of the stabbings.
    — Emma Tucker, CNN, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Marchers at the front of the procession carried an Olympic-style torch, transferring it between city leaders like Hobbs and to the nearly one dozen fraternities and sororities that were part of the march.
    — The Arizona Republic, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Margot and Lucy have become the closest of friends, but by the middle of their sophomore year, one of the fraternity boys from the house next door has been brutally murdered… and Lucy Sharpe is missing without a trace.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023

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