TENURE in a Sentence

Learn TENURE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

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1. When I got tenure at Hopkins, I was a promising researcher.
2. Why the school denied her tenure is the subject of a lawsuit.
3. He remained popular throughout his tenure of the office of mayor.
4. During his tenure as dean, he had a real influence on the students.

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 Meanings and Examples of TENURE
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tenure
 n.  holding of an office; period during which something is held; status of holding position on permanent contract
Classic Sentence:
1  I remember well that the slaves, convinced of the precarious tenure on which they held their lives, passed whole days and nights in praying, crying, and groaning.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 77. Haidee.
Example Sentence:
1  He remained popular throughout his tenure of the office of mayor.
2  During his tenure as dean, he had a real influence on the students.
3  When I got tenure at Hopkins, I was a promising researcher.
4  During his tenure in Beijing, Huntsman was known as an aggressive advocate for human rights and pushed to expand U.S. economic ties with China.
5  Why the school denied her tenure is the subject of a lawsuit.
6  Little did he know when he was sworn in as chief minister of the Indian state of Karnataka on May 17th, but his tenure was destined to be brief.