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
• Bryan Harsin’s tenure remains in flux, with a 9-11 record as the Tigers’ head coach.
  — al, 30 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle were quick to praise Whitaker's tenure at the FAA.
  — Joel Rose, NPR, 12 Dec. 2024
• With his tenure at the plant, Pinson was among the first to be converted.
  — Andrea Hsu, NPR, 13 Sep. 2024
• But in the final months of his tenure, Baker has seen years of progress reversed.
  — Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Nov. 2022
• 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
• Willard became the first coach in Big Ten history to win each of the first seven games of his tenure by at least 15 points.
  — Noah Trister, Chicago Tribune, 3 Dec. 2022
• 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
• Over the course of his tenure, Eckloff's teams have lacked experience.
  — J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 10 Nov. 2022
• 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
• His journey to this role has been marked by a string of accomplishments during his tenure as a part-time crew chief last year.
  — George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
• But far from retiring, Carter pursued some of the human rights policy focus of his White House tenure.
  — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 29 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Jan 2025