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.
• No coach in this span has won more than four in a row to start his tenure.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2022
• 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
• That would be the first time that has happened in Lovullo’s six-year tenure.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 7 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Wills took an active role in Roberts' playing tenure with the Dodgers.
  — Beth Harris, ajc, 20 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Prince and Moore spent time together during the tenure with the Cowboys.
  — C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 16 Feb. 2025
• Over the course of his tenure, Eckloff's teams have lacked experience.
  — J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 10 Nov. 2022
• The past month has been unlike any other during his three-year tenure at the company.
  — Annie Palmer, CNBC, 14 Feb. 2025
• Carvey said in an interview that if Bush had been re-elected, his tenure at the show would have lasted longer.
  — Sopan Deb, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 4 Mar 2025