How to Use residency in a Sentence

residency

noun
  • You must meet the town's residency requirement in order to vote.
  • She recently completed her residency in pediatrics.
  • The Whisky opened in 1964 with a residency by singer Johnny Rivers.
    Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • How does the residency speak to the lasting power of a strong brand and a strong catalog?
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The band just extended its residency in the venue through March 2.
    Karen Idelson, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The Sphere has already lined up residencies from Dead & Co. and Phish for later this year.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Adele is toasting to the end of her 2023 Las Vegas residency.
    Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2023
  • These patients must be over 21 with no felony offenses and a residency in the state of less than 30 days.
    Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Phish will play its own four-show Sphere residency this April.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The residency eventually led Joel to break the record for the most performances at the Garden.
    Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
  • Want to know more about Erika Jayne’s Las Vegas residency but don’t want to spend the $7 needed to buy a ticket?
    Vulture, 5 Nov. 2023
  • This is Fabrice’s baby, where guest chefs from across the globe will preside over the space in residencies ranging from three to six weeks.
    Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2023
  • Epstein had a residency on the island and traveled there with friends.
    Grace Tucker, The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Post performed at the Vegas venue for a two-night residency to celebrate the new year.
    Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Tickets for the opening show as well as the ongoing residency will go on sale Aug. 9th.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2023
  • Among the incentives: tax changes in 2019 and a program that provides a fast track to residency for the ultrawealthy.
    TIME, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Laura, angling for a Sorbonne residency, may have to choose between the two and Elías.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The median length of residency among those long-term tenants was 12 years.
    Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
  • This isn’t the first time U2 has extended its residency.
    Anna Chan, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The center hosts artist residencies and is free to all visitors.
    Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Last month, Adele donned an all-black custom look for her Caesars Palace residency.
    Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The two met in 2017 at Artpace, an artist's residency in San Antonio.
    Robert Boyd, Chron, 16 May 2023
  • Koy and King divorced in 2013 but maintained residencies down the block from one another.
    Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Adam Levine's pop band will take a break from their Las Vegas residency to play the amphitheater July 5.
    Journal Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Gaga has just two more dates scheduled for the latest leg of her residency, closing out Wednesday (Oct. 4) and Thursday (Oct. 5).
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Usher also teamed up with Janelle Monáe last month — not for a new song, but rather a sweet moment during his long-running residency.
    Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 3 Dec. 2023
  • By the spring of 1962, the bar was paying her twenty-five hundred dollars—or twenty-five thousand today—for a two-week residency.
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The country couple have been doing a joint residency there for the past 13 holiday seasons.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Nick, your band played a short residency on Broadway earlier this year.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 8 June 2023
  • This winter, Sandoval was hoping to do a residency at Chippendales in Las Vegas, but talks stalled.
    Irina Aleksander, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024

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