Stint in a sentence as a noun

Jobs WAS perceived as absolutely absurd during his first stint at Apple.

But, right now, there are a few languages that indicate strongly that you might wish to recruit a programmer for a stint at your startup.

For those who are keen to travel to Mars: may I suggest a stint in the Peace Corps first, or on a nuclear submarine, or a tour in Antarctica.

In my post-college lull, I was once in a major financial bind and ended up doing a brief stint as an academic ghostwriter.

Stint in a sentence as a verb

I did a stint in startup-tech-focused business consulting.

Arrington left TechCrunch because of his desire to return to investing about a year ago[2], after the short stint at doing both journalism and investing in parallel.

He's used that stint to great career effect, but seriously, there are a lot of folks who worked more closely with Bush for a longer period of time and have written about his thought and leadership style.

The big thing that killed market fundamentalism for me was doing a stint in business consulting and seeing what the average rich person actually is: a glorified street hustler.

Stint definitions

noun

an unbroken period of time during which you do something; "there were stretches of boredom"; "he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary"

See also: stretch

noun

smallest American sandpiper

noun

an individual's prescribed share of work; "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her"

verb

subsist on a meager allowance; "scratch and scrimp"

See also: scrimp skimp

verb

supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance"

See also: skimp scant