How to Use tenure in a Sentence

tenure

noun
Definition of tenurenext
Synonyms for tenurenext
  • He hopes to get tenure next year.
  • The defendant did not have tenure on the land.
  • His tenure in office will end with the next election.
  • During his tenure as head coach, the team won the championship twice.
  • After seven years I was finally granted tenure.
  • There was the 44-day question mark of Liz Truss’s tenure.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 15 Nov. 2023
  • So this early on in his Big 12 tenure, Sitake is choosing not to sound the alarm.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
  • His 22 hurries were easily the fewest of his tenure as the full-time starter.
    — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 12 Jan. 2024
  • With his tenure at the plant, Pinson was among the first to be converted.
    — Andrea Hsu, NPR, 13 Sep. 2024
  • This has been a common occurrence for the Dodgers during Roberts’ tenure with the club.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
  • And, in the closing scene of the finale, Ressler found Red’s mangled body on the ground, killed by the creature that meant so much to him throughout the show’s tenure.
    — Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 14 July 2023
  • Harithas' tenure at the CAMH ended in 1978 due to conflicts with the museum's board.
    — Brittanie Shey, Chron, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Steve Kerr described the punch as the greatest crisis of his Warriors tenure.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 May 2023
  • What might have been the last start of left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez's tenure with the Tigers didn't go as planned.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 26 July 2023
  • In the first two decades of Shortz’s tenure, per Steinberg, that proportion fell to 19 percent.
    — Sophia Stewart, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
  • His tenure started on a high note in the late 1980s, a boom time in commercial aircraft sales.
    — Clay Risen, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • The club has drafted 35 players in McCarthy’s tenure as head coach.
    — David Moore, Dallas News, 5 May 2023
  • Butts finished his tenure at the airport as a bus driver.
    — Mike Hutton, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2024
  • These events were not unique to this government’s tenure.
    — Patrick Kingsley, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Members of the board are also not allowed to work for the district during their tenure.
    — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 27 July 2024
  • Sure, there might have been a time early in his Texas tenure when Ewers might have felt threatened by a scene like this.
    — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Dec. 2023
  • The Lakers fired head coach Darvin Ham on Friday, ending his two-season tenure at the helm.
    — Khobi Price, Orange County Register, 3 May 2024
  • But the conflict of the past 2½ weeks has led to a thorough re-examination of his tenure.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Throughout his tenure, the Packers were 12th in points allowed and yards allowed.
    — Daniel Oyefusi, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Apprehensions hit a record high at the end of 2023, during Biden’s tenure.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Biden’s tenure hasn’t just soured non-whites on him; it’s soured them on the entire Democratic Party.
    — Henry Olsen, National Review, 20 Dec. 2023
  • For many of those performers, the conclusion of that 18-episode season also marked the end of their SNL tenure.
    — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Ernest Dykes, 51, was among three men whose decades-long tenure on death row appears to be at an end, Price announced Tuesday.
    — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 16 July 2024
  • Kelsey McKinney has received more than her fair share of salacious tips during her tenure as the host of Normal Gossip.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2024
  • More than twice as many deaths occurred under her tenure than in the four years prior, according to the county coroner’s office.
    — Bethany Blankley | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Nov. 2024

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