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.
  • At this stage of his career, though, who knows.
    — Jay King, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • His 53 goals were a new career best.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026
  • His career was kind of like how my career is.
    — Shawn McFarland, Dallas Morning News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • But a career cannot be sustained on hate alone.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
  • My career is my life, my life is my career.
    — Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Ota also won the third gold medal of his career.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Klaris does intend to have a career, a big one.
    — Martha Teichner, CBS News, 28 June 2026
  • Since then, his career has been on a steady upswing.
    — Jack Dunn, Variety, 26 Apr. 2026
  • White is paid to win games and her career depends on it.
    — Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 31 May 2026
  • Steph’s career number is around forty-two per cent right now.
    — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2026
  • No one’s dead, no career has ended.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 17 May 2026
  • That’s the moment a career is built.
    — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Is your career bringing you joy?
    — Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2026
  • And that would have pushed him above 200 career wins.
    — Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026
  • That’s how careers are built ‒ and sustained.
    — Johnny C. Taylor Jr, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
  • White and Poyer are at the ends of their careers.
    — Tim Graham, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Chaisson paired his elite speed rush with a new bull rush to set career highs across the board.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Vince set out to start a career as a wrestling and stunt promoter.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Youth mental health is a career, Hall said.
    — Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2026
  • That win came during the best run of Craig's career.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Or was that just a passion that turned into a career?
    — J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Culkin was just four years old when his acting career began.
    — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Butkus was the rare pro athlete who played his entire career close to home.
    — Andrew Seligman, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Travis Adams got the final out with two on for his first career save.
    — CBS News, 24 May 2026
  • At this stage of his career, that was far from guaranteed.
    — CBS News, 21 June 2026
  • The move won him back some fans and helped turn the corner in his acting career.
    — Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Here’s a look at the shot that ended Craig’s night and career.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025

career

2 of 2 verb
  • Later that month, a van careered into a crowd near a London mosque, and one man died.
    — Joanna Sugden, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2018
  • 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
  • What was Barbara thinking about, when the bus was careering toward her?
    — New York Times, 5 May 2020
  • 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
  • On the field, his Russian teammates were careering toward him.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 June 2018
  • This was too much, and now my father and stepmother are careering toward divorce.
    — Carolyn Hax, Philly.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • As the fugitive car careered along the narrow road, the passenger started heaving out hindquarters of venison.
    — Dave Duffey, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Few writers can tackle the bedroom — or female libido — without careering into goofy burlesque.
    — New York Times, 23 July 2019
  • 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
  • The ball careered into the hand of Liverpool defender Ragnar Klavan.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 2 May 2018
  • The males can be quite aggressive with other like-minded, mating males, and chase scenes featuring two or more brilliant yellow birds careering through the vegetation are not unusual.
    — New York Times, 31 May 2018
  • After a blood-clot diagnosis last year forced him to contemplate how quickly careers — and lives — can end, Wembanyama decided to create a lasting legacy.
    — J.j. Bailey, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2026
  • While some scholars argue that Putin’s Russia is careering downward, others rank it second only to the United States.
    — Simon Saradzhyan, Washington Post, 20 June 2018
  • Jessup faces the presidential inauguration in a state of high distress, convinced that the nation is careering toward its doom, but that nobody — least of all his fellow liberals — can do much to stop it.
    — Beverly Gage, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2017
  • 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
  • One of Pritzker’s top aides deferred to career state employees when asked why a governor who promotes himself as a clean energy champion would allow a big new source of climate pollution to be built under his watch.
    — Michael Hawthorne, chicagotribune.com, 28 Dec. 2021
  • These golden statues can be tickets to career stability, creative freedom, or just a plain-old deserved celebration, but when they are rarely afforded to Black artists, the system becomes even more rigged against them.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 27 Apr. 2021
  • After two seasons at Snow College, a junior college in Utah, Scott started his Division I career at Auburn.
    — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Nobody knows exactly who was first to shout that the bottled water emperors had no clothes, but fashionistas will always jump on a bandwagon and this one is now careering through American and European cities.
    — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
  • From videos posted to social media and witnesses’ descriptions, the SUV was seen careering through the mall’s common areas before coming to rest against a pillar, as people screamed and ran out of the way.
    — Javonte Anderson, chicagotribune.com, 21 Sep. 2019
  • There, Natalie Binder pilots her Mercedes Benz at high speed through the massive wood lot of her family’s sawmill, careering around piles of spruce logs 30 feet high and oncoming forklifts.
    — National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2020
  • The latest revelation concerns an incident that took place four months before the Harts’ SUV careered into the ocean when one of the girls jumped out of a second-story window in her home and ran to a neighbor’s house.
    — Anne Branigin, The Root, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Raikkonen's wobbling car then tagged Vettel's before spinning across the track, careering spectacularly into Verstappen and Alonso — who was in the right place at the wrong time after making a superb start.
    — USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2017
  • The episode bore a disquieting similarity to the 2017 attack on the bridge, in which a van careered onto the sidewalk, mowing down pedestrians, before three attackers leaped from the vehicle and struck people with knives.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Then Pompeo’s motorcade careered through the streets of Rome to the Coliseum, where he and his wife were given a semi-private tour in an area closed off to the public but visible to throngs of tourists lining the upper decks of the amphitheater.
    — Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2019

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