How to Use attrition in a Sentence

attrition

noun

• Attrition is high among social workers because of the difficult work and poor pay.
• For the Ukrainian forces, this war is one of attrition.
  — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
• Freeze hiring at all levels and let attrition begin to bring down costs.
  — The Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2024
• Southwest expects to cut about 2,000 jobs this year through attrition.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2024
• Employees hired during the pandemic are more likely to be at risk of attrition.
  — Chris Capossela, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2022
• And the attrition of the land is of deep personal significance to coastal communities.
  — Paavo Hanninen, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2022
• Problems at the program are presenting in low exam scores, high student attrition, high student stress and concern from faculty, per the board.
  — Alison Steinbach, The Arizona Republic, 25 Feb. 2022
• Russia's slow advance has evolved into a murderous war of attrition as its forces bombard civilian residencies.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 16 Mar. 2022
• Subjected to endless sleepless nights, she is pulled into an escalating war of attrition which tests her resolve and sanity to the limit.
  — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2024
• With so few officers on duty, the city could instead pay for the overtime needs with money left over from what officials said is a dire attrition issue at the police department.
  — Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2022
• Both challengers have focused their campaigns on bringing down crime and battling prosecutor attrition in the state’s attorney’s office.
  — Alex Mann, baltimoresun.com, 8 Mar. 2022
• The board voted to trim 42 jobs instead, which district officials expect can be done through retirements and attrition, without layoffs.
  — Sheila McCann, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Feb. 2022
• The Ravens have added five new assistant coaches, the team Wednesday, stabilizing the staff after a month of attrition in Baltimore.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 23 Feb. 2022
• In the next 10 years— There’s gonna be a lot of attrition.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
• This was a battle of attrition and our pace wore on them a bit.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 25 Aug. 2023
• Talked about this over and over as being a war of attrition.
  — ABC News, 11 Sep. 2022
• The problem is that there are two key variables in a war of attrition.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2023
• Utah State has a short bench, and short benches don’t win wars of attrition.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024
• Over the next dozen years, Haitian rebels and French soldiers waged a vicious war of attrition.
  — Matthew Brown, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024
• The instructing needs now take up the bulk of his time, as the agency works to plug gaps from attrition with new hires.
  — Eli M. Rosenberg, NBC News, 12 Aug. 2022
• There could be attrition on the right if those lawmakers take too much heat and walk away.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 30 May 2023
• Ukraine is also seeing a high attrition rate, the UK added.
  — Bloomberg News, Bloomberg.com, 12 Feb. 2023
• More than 120 days later, the two countries appear to be locked in a long war of attrition.
  — Jacquelyn Schneider, WSJ, 7 July 2022
• Kellett was the first driver to crash this month, but was able to survive the attrition and complete the 500 miles for the second time.
  — Rob Peeters, The Indianapolis Star, 29 May 2022
• The longer the pause between basket and payment, the bigger the attrition rate of customers who drop out.
  — Ozan Ozerk, Forbes, 10 June 2022
• This is one war of attrition that Russia looks to be losing.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
• The summer offensive could well extend through the end of 2023 and lead to a long and grinding war of attrition.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023
• Perhaps most important for a long-term war of attrition in Ukraine is the cost.
  — Michael Peck, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2023
• Though the conflict dragged on through four years of a brutal war of attrition, the impact of the blockade was dramatic.
  — Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, The New Republic, 13 Dec. 2022
• Auburn safety Cayden Bridges recovered it in the end zone to end a battle of attrition on the Plains.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 25 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024