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

• 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
• 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
• 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
• What was Barbara thinking about, when the bus was careering toward her?
  — New York Times, 5 May 2020
• On the field, his Russian teammates were careering toward him.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 June 2018
• 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
• 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
• The ball careered into the hand of Liverpool defender Ragnar Klavan.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 2 May 2018
• While the left side of the charter bus slammed into the city bus, the other side careered into a Kennedy Fried Chicken restaurant, igniting a small fire that was put out by firefighters shortly after.
  — Sarah Maslin Nir and Matthew Haag, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2017
• While some scholars argue that Putin’s Russia is careering downward, others rank it second only to the United States.
  — Simon Saradzhyan, Washington Post, 20 June 2018
• The latest revelation concerns an incident that took place four months before the Harts’ SUV careered into the ocean when one of the girls jumped out of a second-story window in her home and ran to a neighbor’s house.
  — Anne Branigin, The Root, 12 Apr. 2018
• From videos posted to social media and witnesses’ descriptions, the SUV was seen careering through the mall’s common areas before coming to rest against a pillar, as people screamed and ran out of the way.
  — Javonte Anderson, chicagotribune.com, 21 Sep. 2019
• There, Natalie Binder pilots her Mercedes Benz at high speed through the massive wood lot of her family’s sawmill, careering around piles of spruce logs 30 feet high and oncoming forklifts.
  — National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2020
• Then Pompeo’s motorcade careered through the streets of Rome to the Coliseum, where he and his wife were given a semi-private tour in an area closed off to the public but visible to throngs of tourists lining the upper decks of the amphitheater.
  — Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2019
• But this year, even the slew of superhero flicks careering toward the big screen can’t fight off Hollywood’s most fearsome foe: stagnating theater attendance.
  — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 22 May 2017
• The episode bore a disquieting similarity to the 2017 attack on the bridge, in which a van careered onto the sidewalk, mowing down pedestrians, before three attackers leaped from the vehicle and struck people with knives.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2019
• The males can be quite aggressive with other like-minded, mating males, and chase scenes featuring two or more brilliant yellow birds careering through the vegetation are not unusual.
  — New York Times, 31 May 2018
• Jessup faces the presidential inauguration in a state of high distress, convinced that the nation is careering toward its doom, but that nobody — least of all his fellow liberals — can do much to stop it.
  — Beverly Gage, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2017
• Few writers can tackle the bedroom — or female libido — without careering into goofy burlesque.
  — New York Times, 23 July 2019
• Raikkonen's wobbling car then tagged Vettel's before spinning across the track, careering spectacularly into Verstappen and Alonso — who was in the right place at the wrong time after making a superb start.
  — USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2017
• These golden statues can be tickets to career stability, creative freedom, or just a plain-old deserved celebration, but when they are rarely afforded to Black artists, the system becomes even more rigged against them.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 27 Apr. 2021
• Nobody knows exactly who was first to shout that the bottled water emperors had no clothes, but fashionistas will always jump on a bandwagon and this one is now careering through American and European cities.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
• Her groundstrokes careered wide or carried repeatedly long.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 4 July 2019
• Stapleton oversees career technical education for Albuquerque Public Schools, the largest school district in the state and the top employer in Albuquerque.
  — Fox News, 31 July 2021

Last Updated: 24 Feb 2025