Example sentences for: tenured

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

  • A few stick up for the embattled author, arguing that though "the ideas expressed aren't complicated," Purdy "grapples with them with a seriousness that puts more seasoned--and ironic--commentators to shame" ( Publishers Weekly ). Walter Kirn, writing in Time , seems a bit gleeful at the fact that "the brainy nature boy has stormed the capital, panicking the languid sophisticates with an unfashionably passionate attack on the dangers of passionlessness," only to later concede that the book is "an arduous read that would test the syntactical skills of a tenured professor."

  • At a town meeting, FSU President Sandy D'Alemberte declared Whitney's beliefs "obnoxious" but defended the tenured professor's right to publish them.

  • But tenure is at best a partial solution to the incentive problem, because even a tenured professor shares only a fraction of his institution's successes and failures.

  • David Horowitz, right-wing firebrand and head of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, has taken out an ad in six college newspapers excoriating "tenured radicals" for defending the distorted autobiographical writings of Guatemalan Nobel laureate and activist Rigoberta Menchú.

  • The NYT op-ed page features a satirical piece by two Harvard Lampoon editors on the trend of luxury compensation packages being used to lure tenured faculty stars from one elite university to another.


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