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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