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
  • The average length of a Supreme Court tenure has grown a lot.
    Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 26 Jan. 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 | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 17 June 2022
  • During his tenure, the city — and the park district — went through a tremendous amount of growth.
    Rafael Guerrero, chicagotribune.com, 3 Feb. 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
  • And the receivers group appears to be the best of Freeman’s tenure, even if that’s not a bold statement.
    Pete Sampson, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Then came Wednesday night and a performance so dismal even Amorim acknowledged has to be the nadir of his tenure.
    Dan Cancian, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Nonetheless, the greatest gains during Emery’s tenure and contributing success have come through coaching, not recruitment.
    Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025

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