How to Use decade-long in a Sentence

decade-long

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• Rybakina has made major strides in her decade-long career as a tennis pro.
  — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026
• Mattress shopping asks people to make a decade-long decision based on a few minutes of lying down in public.
  — Malana Vantyler, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026
• Kimmel opened up about his nearly five-decade-long friendship with Escobedo after the musician’s death at 59.
  — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Sep. 2026
• With megawatt charging, standard modularity, and heavy haulage range finally in place, that decade-long shift looks less like a distant goal and more like an active rollout.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2026
• Cheers also won Outstanding Comedy Series four times throughout its decade-long run.
  — Keith Langston, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Sep. 2026
• Patagonia is changing course on living wages after a decade-long effort failed to bring all workers in its supply chain up to its 2025 target.
  — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 5 Oct. 2026
• For Regeni’s family, the case became a decade-long campaign for accountability.
  — ABC News, 28 Sep. 2026
• Design flaws with a pedestrian bridge are the latest hurdle in the decade-long push to connect the Bel Air and Forest Hill sections of the trail.
  — Luke Kaiser, Baltimore Sun, 24 Sep. 2026
• The ruling marks the most significant judicial milestone yet in the decade-long quest for accountability over Giulio Regeni’s death.
  — ABC News, 28 Sep. 2026
• The Monopoly promotion returned to McDonald's last year after a decade-long absence.
  — Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026
• In September 2006, Bob Seger emerged from a decade-long hiatus to win widespread acclaim for an album harking back to his roots.
  — Brian McCollum, Freep.com, 18 Sep. 2026
• The delay again has created a potential cash crunch for districts during the wait for their cut — often a main revenue source for local governments — and added to the pile of complaints about the county’s decade-long property tax system upgrade.
  — A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
• The demonstrations showed how protests that began at a high school in the Paris region in mid-September have grown into a nationwide movement — the latest of many that have marked Macron’s nearly decade-long tenure.
  — ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
• The demonstrations showed how protests that began at a high school in the Paris region in mid-September have grown into a nationwide movement -- the latest of many that have marked Macron's nearly decade-long tenure.
  — Nicolas Garriga, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026
• The show, which follows the decade-long romance between two rival hockey players, became a global hit and launched its two stars, Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie, into the spotlight.
  — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2026
• The verdict followed a decade-long effort in Italy to account for the killing of Giulio Regeni, an Italian researcher who disappeared in Cairo in 2016.
  — New York Times, 28 Sep. 2026
• Kaia recently opened up about how her brother’s decade-long battle with addiction had impacted her family in her Vogue September cover story, which was published on August 11.
  — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 21 Sep. 2026
• After a decade-long gap, the Diane von Furstenberg line returned to New York Fashion Week with Zankov unveiling his first collection as artistic director for the brand.
  — ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026
• The decade-long political movement was, in part, fueled by the intense backlash over the mass closures of 50 schools in 2013, which took place almost entirely in Black and Latino neighborhoods.
  — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
• In the Season 8 trailer for The Kardashians, posted on September 17, Jenner finally broke her silence on a decade-long romance rumor about herself and one of her best friends, Cara Delevingne.
  — Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 17 Sep. 2026
• With over a decade-long career in journalism, Neetika Walter has worked with The Economic Times, ANI, and Hindustan Times, covering politics, business, technology, and the clean energy sector.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 9 June 2026