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
• 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
• 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
• The club has drafted 35 players in McCarthy’s tenure as head coach.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 5 May 2023
• 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
• 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
• Musician Jack Sonni, who was best known for his tenure as the Dire Straits’ guitarist, has died.
  — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2023
• Thank you so much for showing up and celebrating our first win here in our tenure.
  — Matt Cohen | [e-mail], al, 3 Sep. 2023
• Mulkey won three titles at Baylor prior to her tenure at LSU.
  — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 7 Nov. 2023
• The stock, which has outperformed the broader market and peers during his tenure, is trading at a record high.
  — Bre Bradham, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2024
• There is Roberto De Zerbi, the early promise of his Brighton tenure now starting to fade.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• The cool thing about it was that Dan became a really good friend of mine, was a real supporter of mine, all of his tenure at DC.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 17 Aug. 2023
• Patel was the sole administrator of the VCC system during his tenure with the team.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 7 Dec. 2023
• After teaching in Italy for two years, Mr. Wynn began his tenure at Purchase in 1986.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• VanDerveer’s tenure as one of the pillars of the women’s game had its ups and downs, with the coach noting that at least 15 of her teams were good enough to win national titles.
  — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2024
• Ryan believes the pandemic-era launch of the PlayStation 5 was the greatest challenge — yet the most rewarding achievement — of his 30-year tenure at Sony.
  — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
• For Manfred, who was two years into his tenure when the Sports Business Journal report was published, that would not do.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024