How to Use term of/in office in a Sentence

term of/in office

noun phrase
  • Trump pulled out of the deal during his first term in office.
    — Barak Ravid, Axios, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The board consists of seven members, with their term of office lasting for two years.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 26 May 2023
  • There have never been any real doubts about the outcome, which will herald his fifth term in office.
    — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Age 81 and with his son in charge of the men with guns, Museveni looks set to win his eighth term in office next year.
    — Joe Wright, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Springdale mayor The mayor of Springdale serves a four-year term in office.
    — Tom Sissom, arkansasonline.com, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Trump and his allies have expressed a deep distrust of the FBI since his first term in office.
    — Sara Dorn, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Trump appointed Wray to the role in 2017 during his first term in office.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 12 Dec. 2024
  • One factor that has the potential to shake up the race is whether Feinstein will be able to finish her term in office.
    — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama found this out during their first term in office.
    — James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 July 2025
  • Newsom’s first term in office was buoyed by record-smashing surpluses of more than $100 billion in some years.
    — Adam Beam, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Because New York does not have term limits for governor, Cuomo can seek a fourth term in office.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2021
  • But Shapiro is a relatively young governor who just won his first term in office in 2022.
    — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 22 July 2024
  • The 10-minute address also gave Biden a chance to try to shape how history will remember his one and only term in office.
    — Zeke Miller, arkansasonline.com, 25 July 2024
  • He was first appointed to the commission in 2000 to serve the remainder of his father’s fourth term of office after his death.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Scott, who is nearing the end of his first term in office, touted the city’s homicide rate, which fell below 300 last year in Baltimore for the first time in nearly a decade.
    — Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024
  • The iPhone was barely a few years in 2010, and President Obama was only halfway through his first term of office.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 27 July 2021

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