How to Use year in a Sentence

year

noun

• The work should be done by the end of the year.
• I haven't seen her in a year.
• That team hasn't won in years.
• We see them once or twice a year.
• It feels like we've been standing in line for a year.
• He quit smoking six years ago.
• She renews her lease every year.
• It's been years since I've been on an airplane.
• She was born in the year 1967.
• And, since the nets work for just over two years, 1.3 lives are saved.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
• The model's two-year-old son, Sylvester, could be heard in the background of the memo.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 9 Apr. 2023
• The Heat were to receive $2 million a year as part of the deal.
  — Tim Reynolds, ajc, 12 Nov. 2022
• Then, about a year later, the bear had grown to 400 pounds and still had the collar on it.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 29 Dec. 2023
• Now, metrics show that wage growth peaked in the middle of last year and has since slowed.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2023
• The rookie of the year award is now the Wilt Chamberlain trophy.
  — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2022
• Smith’s daughter, then 11 years old, was the maid of honor; her son, 15, gave her away.
  — Julie Tremaine, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2024
• From $160 for 4 bottles, five times per year Want a private taste of some of the best wine lists on the planet?
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 24 Nov. 2022
• Berry and the singer-songwriter have been dating for three years.
  — Nikki Dobrin, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2023
• For those waiting in line for food in Kentucky, the last year has been jarring.
  — Tim Craig, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2023
• If convicted of all the charges against him, he could be sentenced to more than 100 years in prison.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 30 Oct. 2023
• That led the agency to begin rewriting its rules last year.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2023
• The event is open to all makes, models and years of cars and motorcycles.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2024
• Now in its third year, the 2023 Griffin Cup includes some of the best talent in Alaska.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Apr. 2023
• Scroll on to relieve your gift-giving stress and find the perfect item to earn you girlfriend of the year award.
  — Sam Peters, ELLE, 17 Dec. 2022
• Pitbull bought the naming rights for $1.2 million a year, for five years.
  — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 7 Aug. 2024
• Laube agreed last year to plead guilty to a misdemeanor for the beating of the journalist.
  — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
• The night was an important look back at the music that defined this past year.
  — Lauren Ballantyne, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2023
• The other two had stayed in Kharkiv through the worst of the shelling, and both had become involved with Playback Theatre in the past year.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2023
• Authorities said they were first made aware of the allegations via media reports last year.
  — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 22 Oct. 2024
• Seeing my friend so comfortable in comfort, my old guttersnipe buddy who’d once lived for years in actual squalor, felt odd.
  — Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024