How to Use first-year in a Sentence

first-year

noun
Definition of first-yearnext
  • Can the Wave build upon their first-year achievements, both at the gate on the field?
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Forty-eight percent of Arkansans approve of the way first-year Gov.
    — Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The first-year head coach got Brees at 27 instead of a rookie.
    — Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 21 Apr. 2024
  • Give him some time to grow like all first-year players.
    — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2024
  • The Bucks hired first-year head coach Adrian Griffin and got off to a 30-13 start to the season.
    — Brian Sampson, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The same goes for first-year coach Chase Koraun at Edgewood.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Is Dillingham too high for a first-year coach at ASU and a first-time college head coach?
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 26 May 2023
  • For small, first-year trees, perhaps, but after that, not in my eyes.
    — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 June 2024
  • Louisville football is off to its best start since 2017 with first-year head coach Jeff Brohm leading the charge.
    — Alexis Cubit, The Courier-Journal, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The exchange went on until O’Dowd’s first-year coach came over and told his player to stop.
    — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2024
  • The Bears had a league-low five rookies or first-year players on their roster.
    — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 16 Sep. 2024
  • For their first-year head coach, that’s his default setting.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 4 Jan. 2024
  • At Carey, 51% of first-year students are female this year, about the same as last year, according to the school.
    — Lindsay Ellis, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The bird was said to look a little like a first-year male Blackburnian.
    — Caleb Crain, The New York Review of Books, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The sale of the Broncos was finally going through, and the team would be helmed by a first-year coach in Nathaniel Hackett.
    — Emmanuel Morgan, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • This could include first-year waivers for new customers.
    — Laxmi Corp, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Joe Mazzulla, the Celtics’ first-year coach, went one step further.
    — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 12 May 2023
  • The first-year player out of Arizona came home from an away game against the New York Knicks to find his entire car wrapped in plastic.
    — Evan Frank, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Kronish, a first-year starter who began the season splitting time in the net, finished with 31 saves in the final.
    — Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Some of the players on the court were on partial deals that will pay them about as much as a first-year partner at a mid-level law firm.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2024
  • But first-year coach Alex Butler is determined to grow the program.
    — Kat Cornetta, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
  • But for a first-year coach, Ham has improved all season and has gotten better in the playoffs.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
  • At Texas State, Finley will have a fresh start under Kinne, the first-year head coach who has seen a rapid rise in his career over the last few years.
    — Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 12 May 2023
  • If an officer spends less than a year, the agency could recoup 100% of the cost of the training up to the officer's first-year salary.
    — Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2023
  • As a first-year player, Musgrave is likely to make his mark with Green Bay on special teams.
    — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Over the past five years, the health system increased salaries for its first-year residents by nearly 18%.
    — Shiv Sudhakar, Fox News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The Herrington brothers have left Hart, with first-year coach Jake Goossen taking over.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2024
  • To keep up with that in the upcoming contract, the WGA would need to negotiate a first-year increase of 10%.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Melanie Hoenig was teaching first-year medical students how to estimate kidney function when one of them, Cameron Nutt, raised his hand.
    — Cassandra Willyard, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
  • That leaves room to add more talent as the season goes along, further strengthening the roster ahead of a potential first-year playoff appearance in the brand-new market.
    — Carol Schram, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024

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