How to Use year in a Sentence

year

noun
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  • The work should be done by the end of the year.
  • I haven't seen her in a year.
  • That team hasn't won in years.
  • We see them once or twice a year.
  • It feels like we've been standing in line for a year.
  • He quit smoking six years ago.
  • She renews her lease every year.
  • It's been years since I've been on an airplane.
  • She was born in the year 1967.
  • And, since the nets work for just over two years, 1.3 lives are saved.
    — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The model's two-year-old son, Sylvester, could be heard in the background of the memo.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 9 Apr. 2023
  • The Heat were to receive $2 million a year as part of the deal.
    — Tim Reynolds, ajc, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Then, about a year later, the bear had grown to 400 pounds and still had the collar on it.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Now, metrics show that wage growth peaked in the middle of last year and has since slowed.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The rookie of the year award is now the Wilt Chamberlain trophy.
    — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Smith’s daughter, then 11 years old, was the maid of honor; her son, 15, gave her away.
    — Julie Tremaine, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2024
  • From $160 for 4 bottles, five times per year Want a private taste of some of the best wine lists on the planet?
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Berry and the singer-songwriter have been dating for three years.
    — Nikki Dobrin, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2023
  • For those waiting in line for food in Kentucky, the last year has been jarring.
    — Tim Craig, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2023
  • If convicted of all the charges against him, he could be sentenced to more than 100 years in prison.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 30 Oct. 2023
  • That led the agency to begin rewriting its rules last year.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The event is open to all makes, models and years of cars and motorcycles.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2024
  • Now in its third year, the 2023 Griffin Cup includes some of the best talent in Alaska.
    — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Scroll on to relieve your gift-giving stress and find the perfect item to earn you girlfriend of the year award.
    — Sam Peters, ELLE, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Pitbull bought the naming rights for $1.2 million a year, for five years.
    — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Laube agreed last year to plead guilty to a misdemeanor for the beating of the journalist.
    — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The night was an important look back at the music that defined this past year.
    — Lauren Ballantyne, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The other two had stayed in Kharkiv through the worst of the shelling, and both had become involved with Playback Theatre in the past year.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Authorities said they were first made aware of the allegations via media reports last year.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Seeing my friend so comfortable in comfort, my old guttersnipe buddy who’d once lived for years in actual squalor, felt odd.
    — Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2024

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