Used in a Sentence

stints

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for stints.

Editorial note

Back when I started I used Basic for long stints, or C for long stints, and that was it!

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of stints gathered in one view.

noun

A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.

noun

Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.

noun

Limit; bound; restraint; extent.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for stints.

noun

A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.

noun

Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.

noun

Limit; bound; restraint; extent.

noun

Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.

Example sentences

1

Back when I started I used Basic for long stints, or C for long stints, and that was it!

2

Tek was his initial hire and he had two short stints at Microsoft and the Eclipse Foundation.

3

Long term, 1-2 year stints early in your career is not usually seen as indicative of anything later on.

4

America, a nation of idiots, letting the police state take over their lives on false terrorism stints.

5

The UI (design and xhtml/css/javascript) team and the backend (php/mysql/etc.) team are both seeking interns for 12 weeks stints.

6

What value does society get out of that, other than the incapacitation provided by his stints in the clink?

7

IBM felt much more corporate during my brief stints there, even in the research labs.

8

I've been a business traveler (1-2 weeks/month) for a number of years and recently began shuffling in stints of airbnb.

9

Some of the best lessons in life can come from those who haven't been tainted by long stints doing the very thing they're commenting on.

10

May I ask you when you go for these 3 month stints in a city, what do you do about housing?

11

Now I'm at about two 3-hour stints a day, which is probably where I'll stay.

12

My personal experience with travel has been short term living stints.

Quote examples

1

I say "short stints" because once the humidity comes down, I start to get cold fairly quickly, even if the temperature is in the 77-80 degree range.

2

But in a reflection of the shifting nature of the European workplace, most are low-paying and last for short stints, sometimes just three to six months." Doesn't seem that high a success to me.

3

But I've had stints where my main job was to fix bugs and/or add features to an existing code base, and I don't consider it "easier" than designing and developing a greenfield project.

Proper noun examples

1

Stints at the New America Foundation, background in Law & property rights rather than science, early ties to The American Prospect and so on: definitely a wunderkind of the political class.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use stints in a sentence?

Back when I started I used Basic for long stints, or C for long stints, and that was it!

What does stints mean?

A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.

What part of speech is stints?

stints is commonly used as noun.