How to Use career in a Sentence

career

1 of 2 noun
  • She hopes to pursue a career in medicine.
  • My career as a waitress lasted one day.
  • During his long career in advertising he won numerous awards and honors.
  • Watt played 10 games that season, the fewest of his career.
    Kevin Skiver, Journal Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Her focus at the time was on her child, not her career.
    Kara Nesvig, Peoplemag, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Now 75, Nicks is in the victory-lap stretch of her long career.
    Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2023
  • It’s been, no doubt, probably the high point of my career.
    Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Butkus was the rare pro athlete who played his entire career close to home.
    Andrew Seligman, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Getting out of hers is how Pereira was able to create her new career.
    Ann Maloney, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
  • Mixon had his ninth touchdown of the season, and 49th of his NFL career, during the first quarter.
    Dave Clark, The Enquirer, 7 Jan. 2024
  • For the sake of his career, Gensler may double down and pursue an appeal.
    Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 18 July 2023
  • Then there are those of us whose career, and sometimes our office, is outside in the fresh air.
    Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The couple met in the early 1990s, when Crawford was at the height of her modeling career.
    Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Coach Judy Green also notched career win No. 1,000 last week.
    Dennis Victory, al, 4 Sep. 2023
  • In this new 75-minute set, Minogue takes her audience on a trip through her five-decade-long career.
    Melinda Sheckells, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Toward the end of the film, Steve admitted that most of his career was driven by the need to have his father's approval.
    Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Trask has just nine career passing attempts, all of which came in Week 18 last season.
    Ryan Morik, Fox News, 19 Aug. 2023
  • For some of the newer members, crafting the album came with career milestones and unique challenges.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 31 Jan. 2024
  • At what point in your career did someone pull you aside and tell you something similar?
    Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2023
  • That devotion, and the work Ms. Tull produced, drew praise throughout her career.
    Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
  • He's achieved a lot in his career, but also seems bolstered by getting back to the roots of music, by teaching others how to play.
    Lori Nickel, Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The series has made household names of the likes of manager Phil Parkinson, a coach who has spent his entire career in the lower levels of the sport.
    James Robson, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2023
  • The Irish actor featured in a number of blockbuster films during his career.
    Jon Haworth, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2023
  • On the run from the police, Modi’s desire to end his career and leave the city is dismissed by fellow Bohemians.
    William Earl, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024
  • His first career hit was a hustle double to center field, a line drive that left his bat at 107 mph and remained in front of the center fielder.
    Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 16 May 2023
  • In the Finnish education system, art is treated as a career as much as a calling.
    Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • Things didn’t go as planned for the former LSU shortstop turned third baseman, beginning his major league career 0 for 18 at the plate.
    James Mueller, Chron, 16 May 2023
  • Kupchak actually took five 3-pointers in his NBA career – and missed all five.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • At the peak of his career, Mayweather was earning hundreds of millions of dollars.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Looking back on his career, Chan had some advice to share with young filmmakers in the audience.
    Mathew Scott, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2023
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career

2 of 2 verb
  • Lawson Crouse was on his way to career highs in goals and points in a season.
    José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Dixon's car struck the car of Jaye Howard, who had slid into the outside wall and then careered back across the track.
    Dave Skretta, chicagotribune.com, 28 May 2017
  • Olivier Giroud played the role of Pélé, slipping the ball into the path of the prodigal son who was careering down the right flank.
    SI.com, 4 Nov. 2019
  • The Tigers started Poche and the team lifted him to career victory No.
    Andrew Lopez, NOLA.com, 29 June 2017
  • Berry took over as the point guard, forced to grab the wheel of a team careering to an almost certain defeat.
    Stephen Ruiz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Later that month, a van careered into a crowd near a London mosque, and one man died.
    Joanna Sugden, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2018
  • Napoli then had their first chance of the match, as Callejón careered an effort wide from the edge of the area after Rodríguez was caught napping.
    SI.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • He is slated to play in his 998th regular-season game for the Bruins (and career No.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Moncada’s second double of the night — and career high-tying 32nd of the season — put Chicago up 2-0 in the sixth.
    Mike Cook, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Kinney began her Heights Libraries career 15 years ago when Gray hired her as a page.
    cleveland, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Yet none has dared to write a prescription as explicit as the one The Good Place is now careering toward.
    Judy Berman, Time, 23 Jan. 2020
  • No matter what career your budding vet ends up choosing, this awesome kit is a great place to start.
    Popular Science, 10 Feb. 2020
  • What was Barbara thinking about, when the bus was careering toward her?
    New York Times, 5 May 2020
  • Soboroff came in third, and career civil servants returned to their perch at the top of city government for two more decades.
    Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022
  • On the field, his Russian teammates were careering toward him.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 June 2018
  • And for those whose jobs have remained solid, there’s no downside to career cushioning.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2022
  • And there’s nothing funny about what comedy can do to career longevity.
    Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 11 May 2018
  • Dylan Larkin's journey to career goal No. 100 took a little longer than expected.
    Dana Gauruder, Detroit Free Press, 19 Jan. 2020
  • In a Facebook post shared the day after the crash, Smith wrote that her car started hydroplaning before careering off the road between two trees and flipping three times.
    The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 17 June 2019
  • She was raised in bohemian mayhem, as her parents careered from film sets and exotic locales to the homes of jet set friends like Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.
    Penelope Green, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Rosillo’s film tracks Canales career through avant garde staging and interviews.
    Callum McLennan, Variety, 10 Nov. 2022
  • But his actions in the final act of his Rockets career more than justify any anger and resentment towards him from fans.
    Rahat Huq, Chron, 13 July 2021
  • Ski lifts run during the summer too, giving downhill mountain bikers the chance to career down narrow tracks at breakneck speed.
    Mary Novakovich, CNN, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Tom’s partner, Karin, is 33 weeks pregnant and careering toward death.
    Katie Kitamura, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018
  • This was too much, and now my father and stepmother are careering toward divorce.
    Carolyn Hax, Philly.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Roach is still best known for his relationship with Zendaya, which goes back almost a decade and demonstrates how the red carpet can be used to career advantage.
    Chantal Fernandez, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The ball careered into the hand of Liverpool defender Ragnar Klavan.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 2 May 2018
  • That starts with abandoning the idea that a four-year college degree is a precursor to career success and stability.
    Nate Davis, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Sean McDermott had 13 points, seven rebounds and four assists (career high).
    David Woods, Indianapolis Star, 1 Mar. 2020
  • While the left side of the charter bus slammed into the city bus, the other side careered into a Kennedy Fried Chicken restaurant, igniting a small fire that was put out by firefighters shortly after.
    Sarah Maslin Nir and Matthew Haag, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2017

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