Wondering how to use Harvard in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as university or philanthropist.
Harvard in a sentence
Harvard meaning
- A surname transferred from the given name.
- Any of a number of places named for persons with the surname, including a city in Massachusetts.
- A university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, named after John Harvard, American clergyman and philanthropist.
Synonyms of Harvard
Using Harvard
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname transferred from the given name. | Any of a number of places named for persons with the surname, including a city in Massachusetts. | A university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, named after John Harvard, American clergyman and philanthropist.
- Useful related words include: harvard university, university, john harvard, philanthropist.
- In the example corpus, harvard often appears in combinations such as: at harvard, harvard university, from harvard.
Context around Harvard
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 10 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Harvard
- In this selection, "harvard" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, main, study, academy, law, university and college stand out and add context to how "harvard" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1872 when harvard resumed playing, 1874 main harvard vs mcgill and harvard university. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "harvard" sits close to words such as rings, performers and plain, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with harvard
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Harvard defeated Cornell 85-63 on Feb. 14. Harvard plays Brown at home on Friday. (15 words)
Harvard-Westlake 4, Chaminade 1: Duncan Marsten threw six scoreless innings with nine strkeouts for Harvard-Westlake. (17 words)
The committee released its report, “Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery,” in 2022 with support from the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. (19 words)
A recipient of an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, Justice Powell pointed to the “Harvard College program” as an “illuminating example” of one that avoided racial quotas while considering race as one plus factor among many in determining whom to admit. (42 words)
Or witness the response of Harvard, the revered institution at which I taught, to new video purported to show pro-Palestinian students – and among them the editor of the Harvard Law Review – physically harassing a Jewish student on campus. (39 words)
Gerald practiced pediatric medicine and was on staff at Southeastern Regional Medical Center when returned to Harvard University and earned a master’s degree in Public Health from Harvard University and became the state health director for North Carolina. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
Harvard–McGill (1874) main Harvard vs. McGill Old "Football Fightum" had been resurrected at Harvard in 1872, when Harvard resumed playing football.
Harvard’s 29th president, Lawrence Bacow, established the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery in 2019 to study Harvard’s relationship to slavery.
Terry Lenzner attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College and Harvard Law School and was captain of both Exeter’s and Harvard’s football teams.
Modern uses of the Harvard architecture The principal advantage of the pure Harvard architecture—simultaneous access to more than one memory system—has been reduced by modified Harvard processors using modern CPU cache systems.
A recipient of an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, Justice Powell pointed to the “Harvard College program” as an “illuminating example” of one that avoided racial quotas while considering race as one plus factor among many in determining whom to admit.
Bruce Schneier is an adjunct lecturer in public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, and Nathan Sanders is an affiliate at Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
Josh Lerner, Harvard Business School professor and entrepreneurship enthusiast, is a trailblazer bringing the HBS entrepreneurship curriculum to Harvard College students.
Ms. Isomichi also holds a bachelor’s from the Harvard Extension School and a master’s in divinity, focusing on ethnography, waste and ethics, from Harvard Divinity School, according to the announcement.
Or witness the response of Harvard, the revered institution at which I taught, to new video purported to show pro-Palestinian students – and among them the editor of the Harvard Law Review – physically harassing a Jewish student on campus.
The committee released its report, “Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery,” in 2022 with support from the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.
Even the Democrat wannabes, like John Kerry (Yale University), Al Gore (Harvard), and Michael Dukakis (Harvard Law School), boasted impressive credentials.
Harvard-Westlake 4, Chaminade 1: Duncan Marsten threw six scoreless innings with nine strkeouts for Harvard-Westlake.
If Boston University’s student section proves to be the loudest supporter of Harvard Men’s Hockey, maybe it is time for Harvard students to organize, get a mascot, and show out for their student-athletes.
Many of them did not even want to go to Harvard—of the nearly four million annual high school graduates, apply to Harvard.
Ogunlesi, who graduated from Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts, Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctor, and Harvard Business School with an MBA, is estimated by Forbes to be worth $1.7 billion.
The subpoenas are addressed for Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow Penny Pritzker, Interim President Alan Garber, and Harvard Management Company’s CEO N.P. Narvekar.
According to researchers at the University of Illinois, Harvard Business School, Harvard University and the University of Chicago, the U.S. has lost more than 100,000 small businesses so far.
Gerald practiced pediatric medicine and was on staff at Southeastern Regional Medical Center when returned to Harvard University and earned a master’s degree in Public Health from Harvard University and became the state health director for North Carolina.
Harvard defeated Cornell 85-63 on Feb. 14. Harvard plays Brown at home on Friday.
Harvard Professor of Government Harvey Mansfield : “If you look at a typical Harvard transcript, you see courses all over the place.
Phrases with harvard
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with harvard
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- at harvard 39×
- harvard university 32×
- from harvard 26×
- the harvard 22×
- harvard business 15×
- of harvard 15×
- harvard law 13×
- to harvard 13×
- and harvard 11×
- harvard medical 11×