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.
  • The player with the most tenure on the team wouldn’t mind it, either.
    — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 14 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Edge Harsin has yet to add a five-star prospect during his tenure.
    — Nick Alvarez | [email protected], al, 17 June 2022
  • 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
  • In October 2017, Allen still had most of his tenure in Voices ahead of him, along with a lot of miles.
    — al, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Her tenure oversaw decades of dramatic change across the world and at home.
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Overall, that means that 72.5% of the legal staff has turned over during his tenure.
    — Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 8 June 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
  • Though his tenure in the band was short, Binks left an indelible mark on Judas Priest.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2025
  • In the first two decades of Shortz’s tenure, per Steinberg, that proportion fell to 19 percent.
    — Sophia Stewart, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Williams struggled early in his Yankees tenure, but has settled back into the closer role.
    — Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
  • In his tenure, childhood-vaccination rates fell from eighty-five per cent to less than seventy per cent.
    — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 27 June 2025

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