How to Use full-time in a Sentence

full-time

adjective
  • His shoulders took quite the weight of Thorne’s in his first year as the full-time starter.
    Matt Cohen | McOhen@al.com, al, 18 Aug. 2023
  • From that day on, Alexander stayed with Jones full-time.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Also of note is its lack of a full-time four-wheel drive option.
    Andrew Wendler, Car and Driver, 8 Aug. 2023
  • He has been forced to increase wages to keep his five full-time workers.
    Peter S. Goodman Bridget Bennett, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • In 1995, The Times finally hired him for its full-time business staff.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Ashley Ziegler is a full-time parenting writer and mom to a 1 and a 4-year-old.
    Maya Polton, Parents, 11 May 2024
  • In fact, Glassdoor projects Gen Z will overtake boomers in the full-time workforce next year.
    Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Soon there was no doubt in his mind: His true calling was to be a full-time Christian pastor.
    Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The model has also gotten back into the style world full-time.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Since 2017, Scout has been living full-time as a resident pet in Glacier Hill.
    Sydney Page, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Defending yourself in two or three courts is a full-time job times two or three.
    Eric Cortellessa, Time, 12 July 2023
  • On March 1, the unit was staffed with 10 full-time employees and one part-time employee.
    Tom Sissom, arkansasonline.com, 30 Apr. 2024
  • But managing your own health, which can be a full-time job, spikes your blood pressure.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2024
  • Wage bumps for full-time employees will bring the average top rate to $49 hourly.
    Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 26 July 2023
  • Growing up, my mom—aside from being a single mom and having to chase four of us around—didn’t work a full-time job.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Some people with full-time jobs couch surf or sleep in vehicles.
    Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The loss of her car has impacted her ability to get to her full-time job as a home health care nurse and to take care of her 10-year-old.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Even savvy full-time travelers can be victims of theft.
    Kelsey Glennon, Travel + Leisure, 29 Apr. 2024
  • Ford agreed as part of its tentative deal with the UAW to convert temp hires to full-time employees.
    Gabrielle Coppola, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Those in favor of the rule say short-term rentals siphon away housing that could go to full-time residents and lead to rising rent costs.
    Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Some have secured short-term jobs off the books, earning around $400 a week for full-time work in a grocery store or on a construction site.
    Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The city has only had part-time firefighters, but since the city has grown, Bluffdale needs to work to have full-time firefighters.
    Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The admission requirements in Charlotte will be the same as the full-time program in Greensboro.
    Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Only thirty seconds per day on weekends, when my full-time job is not leaving the house.
    Ginny Hogan, The New Yorker, 20 June 2023
  • Wright said the business was going to put down a base as full-time operators in Missouri.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • For Mohamed, the most important outcome is getting a full-time job.
    Calmatters, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The Duke of Gloucester, 79, is Queen Elizabeth’s first cousin and a full-time working royal alongside his wife.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2023
  • His project continues, even as Day named McCord the full-time starter on Tuesday morning.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2023
  • In cities such as Florence, Italy, short-term rentals brought in tourists and drove out full-time residents, the Italian government said.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Part- and full-time options are available for each specialty track.
    Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2023

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