Example sentences for: tenure

How can you use “tenure” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He inaugurated his tenure with a call to arms: "My father delivered political freedom, and I would like to deliver economic freedom.

  • Albright's U.N. tenure is best remembered for two things: her sandbagging of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and her proclamation that Cuba's shooting down of planes flown by anti-Castro exiles took "not cojones " but "cowardice."

  • As for Andrew Sullivan's and Katha Pollitt's comments ("The Breakfast Table"), given Sullivan's tenure at TNR , including but not limited to his brilliant editing there of Stephen Glass, I will take his comments as a compliment.

  • During his 29-year tenure as a public interest lawyer, Dudovitz has proved that he can deliver on some of the Legal Services Corp.'s key objectives.

  • In any event, for those of you not following along at home, Chandler was a lion of American journalism who during his 20-year tenure remade the Times from a local paper to one of the four important newspapers every thinking human ought to read every day (quick: Name the other three!)


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