How to Use concurrent in a Sentence

concurrent

adjective
  • He's currently serving two concurrent life sentences for murder.
  • The prize money is no longer equal to the concurrent stage of the men’s event.
    Kathryn Bertine, Outside Online, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The first set of those bowl games will run concurrent with the second week of the state playoffs.
    Chris Dabe, NOLA.com, 23 Nov. 2020
  • With that record number came a concurrent jump in the cost to attend.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2019
  • Green was sentenced to concurrent terms of five years in prison.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Someone was posting the score of a concurrent soccer match on a blackboard near the bar.
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 10 July 2021
  • He was sentenced to six years in prison, but that term was concurrent with his sentence for the killing.
    Laura McCrystal, Philly.com, 18 June 2018
  • He was found guilty of three counts, the sentences for which were also made concurrent.
    Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2019
  • The crossbow season runs concurrent with the archery deer season.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The two-year sentence for pointing a firearm will be concurrent to the murder sentence.
    James D. Wolf Jr., Post-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2017
  • And this one fell through, given all the concurrent excitement.
    Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 4 July 2019
  • Follow all the news and our live analysis on our liveblog, which will run concurrent to the video stream.
    Michael Calore, WIRED, 8 May 2018
  • The school quickly grew to a daily schedule of four one-hour blocks with five concurrent classes.
    NBC News, 3 Aug. 2019
  • The counts will run concurrent to the three consecutive murder charges.
    Itzel Luna, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
  • The three-year federal sentence will run concurrent to that.
    Chris Graves, Cincinnati.com, 27 July 2017
  • Chvarak pleaded guilty to the murders and was sentenced to five concurrent life sentences.
    John C Moritz, USA TODAY, 18 May 2018
  • The concurrent rally in the stock and bond markets has also stoked worries about a rapid reversal in both.
    Caitlin Ostroff, WSJ, 11 June 2021
  • Those dreams came with a price, though, often concurrent with the royalty checks.
    Sarah Smarsh, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2021
  • A good day would mean a couple hundred concurrent viewers.
    Jacob Sweet, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2023
  • There were noise bleeds from concurrent sets that frustrated even the musicians.
    Samantha West, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 July 2018
  • These are the kind of concurrent crises that climate experts have been warning will happen more frequently as the world warms.
    Denise Chow, NBC News, 19 July 2022
  • Part of the plea included a request for ten years of concurrent imprisonment on each count.
    Amber Ali, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Six days later he is sentenced to three concurrent five-year sentences.
    CNN, 14 Nov. 2021
  • The defensive falloff runs concurrent with a dip in possession time on offense.
    Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Throw in too many deep cuts or slow songs and your viewers will seek refuge among one of a half-dozen other concurrent performances.
    Bryan Rolli, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Each account supports up to five user profiles and four concurrent streams.
    Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2021
  • But why not give Brady a similar show on Fox, to run concurrent with the main broadcast?
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Then, too, commentators wondered what the point of the concurrent looting was.
    The Economist, 1 June 2020
  • The ghost of some parallel life still running concurrent with our actual world.
    Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • But now more than ever, a career as an investor can be concurrent to a career as an athlete.
    Kevin Dowd, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2021

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