How to Use year in a Sentence

year

noun

• 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
• 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
• Smith’s daughter, then 11 years old, was the maid of honor; her son, 15, gave her away.
  — Julie Tremaine, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2024
• 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
• 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
• There’s no give up in this team and it’s been that way all year long and even today when things didn’t go our way in the fourth quarter.
  — Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Mar. 2024
• My time at Sony has been some of the most rewarding and memorable years of my life.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2023
• The church also saves the palms and burns them in the following year to create the ashes used on Ash Wednesday.
  — Marie Milano, Country Living, 21 Feb. 2023
• This sweet gift is something a couple will cherish for years to come.
  — Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2023
• Christina El Moussa has herself quite the girl gang in this find from her senior year of high school in 2001.
  — Hannah Chubb, Peoplemag, 9 Feb. 2023
• Analysts predict supplies will fall short by millions of tons in the coming years.
  — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024