How to Use first-year in a Sentence

first-year

noun

• Jackson is a first-year starter.
  — Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025
• The first-year coach looked overmatched.
  — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
• That’s pretty good for a first-year starter.
  — Cameron Teague Robinson, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
• Groce will be a wild card as a first-year freshman.
  — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2026
• The award is strictly for first-year players.
  — Dianna Russini, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
• Swift is a first-year ballot inductee.
  — Cathy Applefeld Olson, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
• Johnson, of course, is the first-year head coach of the Bears.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2025
• So, too, is the first-year coach’s confidence.
  — Josh Yohe, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
• For small, first-year trees, perhaps, but after that, not in my eyes.
  — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 June 2024
• At this time a year ago, Davis was a first-year starter for the Pios.
  — Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 15 Nov. 2024
• This was an eval from first-year edge coach Larry Knight.
  — Jeff Sentell, AJC.com, 15 May 2026
• Virginia’s first-year coach Ryan Odom is on the list.
  — Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2026
• Then, the first-year head coach will do the same with each member of his coaching staff.
  — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Jan. 2026
• But the first-year Legacy are starting to bank some points.
  — Boston Herald Staff, Boston Herald, 10 May 2026
• Tavares had a strong start under first-year head coach Craig Berube.
  — Jonas Siegel, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
• So, what is going on with the first-year defender?
  — Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
• Despite his first-year success, Brown didn’t reach the end zone.
  — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2026
• The first-year New York coach is still learning how things work here.
  — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 9 May 2026
• Instead, the first-year skipper let out a soft whistle.
  — Spencer Nusbaum, New York Times, 23 June 2026
• Ben Johnson, the team's first-year head coach, will be facing his old team.
  — Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
• Can the Wave build upon their first-year achievements, both at the gate on the field?
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
• The fan base has hardly embraced first-year head coach Jerod Mayo.
  — Josh Kendall, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
• The state received more than $233 million in its first-year award.
  — Aaron Bolton, NPR, 26 Mar. 2026
• The first-year head coach got Brees at 27 instead of a rookie.
  — Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 21 Apr. 2024
• The first-year Mets had a roster of cast-offs from the expansion draft.
  — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 28 Sep. 2025
• Forty-eight percent of Arkansans approve of the way first-year Gov.
  — Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2023
• The sixth, seventh and eighth practices, the first-year head coach said, there tends to be a little dip.
  — Aaron Heisen, Daily News, 14 Apr. 2026
• The Bears had a league-low five rookies or first-year players on their roster.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 16 Sep. 2024
• Hall and Purter also could factor as first-year freshmen.
  — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2026
• The first-year backstop hopes to show better discipline at the plate.
  — Kansas City Star, 30 May 2026