How to Use term of/in office in a Sentence

term of/in office

noun phrase
  • In his first term in office, Trump did not attend that event.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Thirty-three percent said the same of Trump’s term in office.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 4 May 2024
  • Trump and his allies have expressed a deep distrust of the FBI since his first term in office.
    Sara Dorn, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Evers edged out a win in last year’s election with 51.2% of the vote in order to serve a second term in office.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2023
  • President Joe Biden has added to the national debt over the course of his term in office, just as Trump did.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Brown, who’s seeking a fourth term in office, is one of two Democrats defending his seat in a state Trump won.
    Haley Bemiller, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The board consists of seven members, with their term of office lasting for two years.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 26 May 2023
  • After a term in office, Trump can only serve four more years if elected in 2024.
    Paul Steinhauser, Fox News, 1 June 2023
  • Springdale mayor The mayor of Springdale serves a four-year term in office.
    Tom Sissom, arkansasonline.com, 28 Feb. 2024
  • ThyssenKrupp was among those hurt by the tariffs Mr. Trump imposed on steel and aluminum during his first term in office.
    Melissa Eddy, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The spotlight will also continue to shine on Trump’s term in office.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 19 Nov. 2020
  • There have never been any real doubts about the outcome, which will herald his fifth term in office.
    Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2024
  • One factor that has the potential to shake up the race is whether Feinstein will be able to finish her term in office.
    Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The Twentieth Amendment is crystal clear that the president’s term in office ‘shall end’ at noon on Jan. 20, but two men could show up to be sworn in.
    Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 2 Nov. 2020
  • The iPhone was barely a few years in 2010, and President Obama was only halfway through his first term of office.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 27 July 2021
  • The two had a falling out at the end of their term in office, when Pence refused Trump's orders to stop the certification of the 2020 election results.
    Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The two had a falling out at the end of their term in office, when Pence refused Trump's orders to stop the certification of the 2020 election results.
    Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 18 June 2024
  • Newsom’s first term in office was buoyed by record-smashing surpluses of more than $100 billion in some years.
    Adam Beam, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2023
  • He was first appointed to the commission in 2000 to serve the remainder of his father’s fourth term of office after his death.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Scott, who is nearing the end of his first term in office, touted the city’s homicide rate, which fell below 300 last year in Baltimore for the first time in nearly a decade.
    Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024
  • The 10-minute address also gave Biden a chance to try to shape how history will remember his one and only term in office.
    Zeke Miller, arkansasonline.com, 25 July 2024
  • But Shapiro is a relatively young governor who just won his first term in office in 2022.
    Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 22 July 2024
  • There is one person who knows, better than any other, what’s coming if Donald Trump wins a new term in office.
    Andrew Prokop, Vox, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Because New York does not have term limits for governor, Cuomo can seek a fourth term in office.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The uncertainty is a lot higher this time than for Trump’s first term in office, given the size of the tariff threat, the magnitude of the trade imbalance.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 28 Nov. 2024
  • The last time a sitting vice president was replaced on the national ticket after a term in office was in 1944.
    Ron Elving, NPR, 22 June 2024
  • But the vice president lauded Mr. Biden's leadership over his first term in office.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Billionaires’ huge gains are largely due to a stock market that has steadily risen during Trump’s term of office.
    Ben Steverman, Bloomberg.com, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Voters knew that life expectancy for people who made it to adulthood would take them into their 70s, well past their term in office.
    Rebecca Brannon / Made By History, TIME, 3 July 2024
  • Applicants must be a resident of the city at the time of application and reside in El Cajon during the term of office.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2021

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