How to Use termer in a Sentence

termer

noun
  • Iran and others are already beginning to see him as a one-termer.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2018
  • Democrats started out with more than enough ammunition to make Rauner a one-termer.
    — Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Some of our long-termers have racked up considerably more mileage over the same period.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Extra lonely is the life of the long-termer with the current honor of being the least powerful.
    — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Ninety-nine large is a lot of money, and our long-termer is actually lightly equipped for a Porsche.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Bush 41 was parked at a job approval number of 34% on the Election Day that rendered him a one-termer.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 13 Sep. 2021
  • But short-termers dominate this crowd—and their influence is often outsize compared with their shareholdings.
    — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 21 May 2018
  • Our long-termer's hearty initial duty cycle has unfortunately resulted in evidence of wear and tear, though.
    — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Americans, by a sizable margin, rejected that nonsense and made Trump a rarity among presidents — a one-termer who lost a re-election bid.
    — Scott Gillespie, Star Tribune, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Front drivers are now 36-mpg machines, and all-wheel-drive Siennas, such as our long-termer, get a big 35 mpg on the Monroney label.
    — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 20 May 2022
  • The 23-weekers did perform worse than full-termers on the FCAT, finishing two-thirds of a standard deviation behind the rest of the population their age.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 12 June 2017
  • The Pennsylvania first-termer was especially outspoken in voicing concern about the nearly 42 million Americans who are at risk of going hungry because of the expiration of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.
    — Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 10 Nov. 2025

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