How to Use tenure in a Sentence

tenure

noun

• 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
• However, her tenure hosting the morning show will soon be coming to an end.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
• Still, this game feels like one Jay Norvell needs to put an exclamation point on what was supposed to be a turn-the-corner season for his tenure in Fort Collins.
  — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 27 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024