How to Use first-year in a Sentence
first-year
noun-
Can the Wave build upon their first-year achievements, both at the gate on the field?
— Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023 -
Forty-eight percent of Arkansans approve of the way first-year Gov.
— Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2023 -
The first-year head coach got Brees at 27 instead of a rookie.
— Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 21 Apr. 2024 -
Give him some time to grow like all first-year players.
— Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2024 -
The Bucks hired first-year head coach Adrian Griffin and got off to a 30-13 start to the season.
— Brian Sampson, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024 -
The same goes for first-year coach Chase Koraun at Edgewood.
— Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 17 Mar. 2023 -
Is Dillingham too high for a first-year coach at ASU and a first-time college head coach?
— Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 26 May 2023 -
For small, first-year trees, perhaps, but after that, not in my eyes.
— Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 June 2024 -
Louisville football is off to its best start since 2017 with first-year head coach Jeff Brohm leading the charge.
— Alexis Cubit, The Courier-Journal, 11 Sep. 2023 -
The exchange went on until O’Dowd’s first-year coach came over and told his player to stop.
— Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2024 -
The Bears had a league-low five rookies or first-year players on their roster.
— Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 16 Sep. 2024 -
For their first-year head coach, that’s his default setting.
— The Indianapolis Star, 4 Jan. 2024 -
At Carey, 51% of first-year students are female this year, about the same as last year, according to the school.
— Lindsay Ellis, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023 -
The bird was said to look a little like a first-year male Blackburnian.
— Caleb Crain, The New York Review of Books, 26 Sep. 2024 -
The sale of the Broncos was finally going through, and the team would be helmed by a first-year coach in Nathaniel Hackett.
— Emmanuel Morgan, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023 -
This could include first-year waivers for new customers.
— Laxmi Corp, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023 -
Joe Mazzulla, the Celtics’ first-year coach, went one step further.
— Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 12 May 2023 -
The first-year player out of Arizona came home from an away game against the New York Knicks to find his entire car wrapped in plastic.
— Evan Frank, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Apr. 2023 -
Kronish, a first-year starter who began the season splitting time in the net, finished with 31 saves in the final.
— Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2023 -
Some of the players on the court were on partial deals that will pay them about as much as a first-year partner at a mid-level law firm.
— Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2024 -
But first-year coach Alex Butler is determined to grow the program.
— Kat Cornetta, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023 -
But for a first-year coach, Ham has improved all season and has gotten better in the playoffs.
— Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023 -
At Texas State, Finley will have a fresh start under Kinne, the first-year head coach who has seen a rapid rise in his career over the last few years.
— Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 12 May 2023 -
If an officer spends less than a year, the agency could recoup 100% of the cost of the training up to the officer's first-year salary.
— Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2023 -
Daniels, paired with first-year head coach Dan Quinn, has been an instant franchise changer.
— Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 1 Nov. 2024 -
As a first-year player, Musgrave is likely to make his mark with Green Bay on special teams.
— Ndaschel, oregonlive, 29 Apr. 2023 -
Over the past five years, the health system increased salaries for its first-year residents by nearly 18%.
— Shiv Sudhakar, Fox News, 29 Mar. 2023 -
The Herrington brothers have left Hart, with first-year coach Jake Goossen taking over.
— Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2024 -
To keep up with that in the upcoming contract, the WGA would need to negotiate a first-year increase of 10%.
— Gene Maddaus, Variety, 28 Mar. 2023 -
Melanie Hoenig was teaching first-year medical students how to estimate kidney function when one of them, Cameron Nutt, raised his hand.
— Cassandra Willyard, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
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