How to Use career in a Sentence

career

1 of 2 noun

• She hopes to pursue a career in medicine.
• My career as a waitress lasted one day.
• During his long career in advertising he won numerous awards and honors.
• Watt played 10 games that season, the fewest of his career.
  — Kevin Skiver, Journal Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2024
• Her focus at the time was on her child, not her career.
  — Kara Nesvig, Peoplemag, 26 Nov. 2023
• Now 75, Nicks is in the victory-lap stretch of her long career.
  — Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2023
• It’s been, no doubt, probably the high point of my career.
  — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2023
• Butkus was the rare pro athlete who played his entire career close to home.
  — Andrew Seligman, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2023
• Getting out of hers is how Pereira was able to create her new career.
  — Ann Maloney, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
• Mixon had his ninth touchdown of the season, and 49th of his NFL career, during the first quarter.
  — Dave Clark, The Enquirer, 7 Jan. 2024
• For the sake of his career, Gensler may double down and pursue an appeal.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 18 July 2023
• Then there are those of us whose career, and sometimes our office, is outside in the fresh air.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 24 Feb. 2024
• The couple met in the early 1990s, when Crawford was at the height of her modeling career.
  — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2023
• Coach Judy Green also notched career win No. 1,000 last week.
  — Dennis Victory, al, 4 Sep. 2023
• In this new 75-minute set, Minogue takes her audience on a trip through her five-decade-long career.
  — Melinda Sheckells, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
• Toward the end of the film, Steve admitted that most of his career was driven by the need to have his father's approval.
  — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2024
• Trask has just nine career passing attempts, all of which came in Week 18 last season.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 19 Aug. 2023
• For some of the newer members, crafting the album came with career milestones and unique challenges.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 31 Jan. 2024
• At what point in your career did someone pull you aside and tell you something similar?
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2023
• That devotion, and the work Ms. Tull produced, drew praise throughout her career.
  — Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
• He's achieved a lot in his career, but also seems bolstered by getting back to the roots of music, by teaching others how to play.
  — Lori Nickel, Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2024
• The series has made household names of the likes of manager Phil Parkinson, a coach who has spent his entire career in the lower levels of the sport.
  — James Robson, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2023
• The Irish actor featured in a number of blockbuster films during his career.
  — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2023
• On the run from the police, Modi’s desire to end his career and leave the city is dismissed by fellow Bohemians.
  — William Earl, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024
• His first career hit was a hustle double to center field, a line drive that left his bat at 107 mph and remained in front of the center fielder.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 16 May 2023
• In the Finnish education system, art is treated as a career as much as a calling.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• Things didn’t go as planned for the former LSU shortstop turned third baseman, beginning his major league career 0 for 18 at the plate.
  — James Mueller, Chron, 16 May 2023
• Kupchak actually took five 3-pointers in his NBA career – and missed all five.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• At the peak of his career, Mayweather was earning hundreds of millions of dollars.
  — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
• Once the Dodgers opted to go that route, Betts embraced the move as not only the latest challenge of his 11-year career but a necessary obligation to best help the team.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2024

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career

2 of 2 verb

• Lawson Crouse was on his way to career highs in goals and points in a season.
  — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2022
• Dixon's car struck the car of Jaye Howard, who had slid into the outside wall and then careered back across the track.
  — Dave Skretta, chicagotribune.com, 28 May 2017
• Olivier Giroud played the role of Pélé, slipping the ball into the path of the prodigal son who was careering down the right flank.
  — SI.com, 4 Nov. 2019
• The Tigers started Poche and the team lifted him to career victory No.
  — Andrew Lopez, NOLA.com, 29 June 2017
• Berry took over as the point guard, forced to grab the wheel of a team careering to an almost certain defeat.
  — Stephen Ruiz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 Apr. 2018
• Later that month, a van careered into a crowd near a London mosque, and one man died.
  — Joanna Sugden, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2018
• Napoli then had their first chance of the match, as Callejón careered an effort wide from the edge of the area after Rodríguez was caught napping.
  — SI.com, 15 Apr. 2018
• He is slated to play in his 998th regular-season game for the Bruins (and career No.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2020
• Moncada’s second double of the night — and career high-tying 32nd of the season — put Chicago up 2-0 in the sixth.
  — Mike Cook, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2019
• Kinney began her Heights Libraries career 15 years ago when Gray hired her as a page.
  — cleveland, 19 Feb. 2021
• Yet none has dared to write a prescription as explicit as the one The Good Place is now careering toward.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 23 Jan. 2020
• No matter what career your budding vet ends up choosing, this awesome kit is a great place to start.
  — Popular Science, 10 Feb. 2020
• What was Barbara thinking about, when the bus was careering toward her?
  — New York Times, 5 May 2020
• Soboroff came in third, and career civil servants returned to their perch at the top of city government for two more decades.
  — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022
• On the field, his Russian teammates were careering toward him.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 June 2018
• And for those whose jobs have remained solid, there’s no downside to career cushioning.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2022
• And there’s nothing funny about what comedy can do to career longevity.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 11 May 2018
• Dylan Larkin's journey to career goal No. 100 took a little longer than expected.
  — Dana Gauruder, Detroit Free Press, 19 Jan. 2020
• In a Facebook post shared the day after the crash, Smith wrote that her car started hydroplaning before careering off the road between two trees and flipping three times.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 17 June 2019
• She was raised in bohemian mayhem, as her parents careered from film sets and exotic locales to the homes of jet set friends like Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• Rosillo’s film tracks Canales career through avant garde staging and interviews.
  — Callum McLennan, Variety, 10 Nov. 2022
• But his actions in the final act of his Rockets career more than justify any anger and resentment towards him from fans.
  — Rahat Huq, Chron, 13 July 2021
• Ski lifts run during the summer too, giving downhill mountain bikers the chance to career down narrow tracks at breakneck speed.
  — Mary Novakovich, CNN, 11 Feb. 2022
• Tom’s partner, Karin, is 33 weeks pregnant and careering toward death.
  — Katie Kitamura, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018
• This was too much, and now my father and stepmother are careering toward divorce.
  — Carolyn Hax, Philly.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• Roach is still best known for his relationship with Zendaya, which goes back almost a decade and demonstrates how the red carpet can be used to career advantage.
  — Chantal Fernandez, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Mar. 2022
• The ball careered into the hand of Liverpool defender Ragnar Klavan.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 2 May 2018
• That starts with abandoning the idea that a four-year college degree is a precursor to career success and stability.
  — Nate Davis, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
• Sean McDermott had 13 points, seven rebounds and four assists (career high).
  — David Woods, Indianapolis Star, 1 Mar. 2020
• Franklin's lows as spectacularly as her highs, from family conflicts to career burnout to self-destruction and battles with addiction.
  — WIRED, 17 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024