How to Use sinecure in a Sentence

sinecure

noun
  • He was given a sinecure in Rome where nuns waited on him hand and foot.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2021
  • The top brass, in particular, benefit from sinecures in and payouts from this empire.
    — The Economist, 9 Sep. 2017
  • His are not exactly the steadiest of hands, but foreign businesses have sought him out for lucrative sinecures.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Aim for a plurality, but do so with what amounts to a running mate who is then rewarded with a sinecure in the new administration.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 13 June 2018
  • Finally, remember that being a CEO is not a sinecure.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • That sinecure is owned by Marty Meehan, the former Congressman.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Burke seemed to like dressing up in medieval regalia, and the ceremonial sinecure should have been no more than a Gothic folly.
    — James Carroll, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2017
  • Rather than give him a sinecure, Netanyahu named him the national-security minister.
    — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • His finances remained in a parlous state, and three years before his death this scourge of the Establishment solicited a government sinecure.
    — Martin Edwards, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2022
  • But, while the title was supposed to be a sinecure, instead Smith went from running for the nation’s highest office to running around trying to rent the highest offices.
    — Time, 30 Apr. 2021
  • And if saving the world means that poor Maggie Hassan has to go back to being a lawyer or while away her days in some Kennedy School sinecure, isn’t that a small price to pay?
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 9 Feb. 2022
  • In 2024, in first (partial) year in his new no-heavy-lifting sinecure, Lowy pocketed $351,050.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Lander’s backers are also challenging a system in which a safe House seat can easily become a sinecure, so long as the incumbent avoids either prison or an ideological betrayal.
    — Russell Berman, The Atlantic, 7 June 2026
  • At sixty, Casanova was forced by destitution to accept a modest sinecure as the librarian of a castle in Bohemia, owned by a noble admirer who was rarely in residence.
    — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
  • Two years ago, she got fired from her $196,551 hack sinecure at the Cannabis Control Commission for not sufficiently kowtowing to the woke mob.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 22 Nov. 2025
  • So Porter is now the guy the State Police have supposedly doing a deep dive on the clowns, grifters and assorted gender-bending jokers that Maura Healey hands six-figure hack sinecures to — judicial nominees, college presidents, the heads of the veterans’ homes, etc.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 29 Nov. 2025

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