How to Use layoff in a Sentence

layoff

1 of 2 noun

• The band finally has a new album after a three year layoff.
• More layoffs are expected at the factory later this year.
• The company announced the layoff of several hundred employees.
• This marks the third layoff for 100 Thieves in less than two years.
  — Jay Peters, The Verge, 2 Nov. 2023
• The newsroom’s union staged a one-day walkout in protest of the layoffs.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 30 Jan. 2024
• Some people have been complaining about the length of the layoff for the teams who don’t play in the wild-card round.
  — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• The past years have seen a number of major layoffs at Google.
  — Anna Gordon, TIME, 11 Jan. 2024
• The layoffs are expected to take place on June 29, the filings show.
  — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 1 Apr. 2024
• More layoffs came in 2023 amid the writers and actors guilds’ strikes.
  — Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 16 July 2024
• The companies say the strikes have forced them to impose those layoffs.
  — Tom Krisher, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
• Terms of the deal were not made public, but layoffs were not believed to be part of the arrangement.
  — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2024
• The major leadership change came on the heels of a massive layoff.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2022
• Headlines about mass layoffs at big tech firms and Wall Street banks added to the feeling of economic gloom.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 10 June 2023
• The layoffs come as the company prepares for a transition in CEOs.
  — Anna Gordon, TIME, 19 Jan. 2024
• And the possibility of a long layoff is nothing new to the playoffs.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• Because of the lengthy layoff, Story will need a few minor league games to get his timing back.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2022
• But some experts believe Silicon Valley will be able to ease the pain of tech layoffs to the north.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 15 May 2024
• That's much more secure than being stuck in a job waiting for the next layoff or hiring freeze.
  — Caroline Castrillon, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
• Critics of the layoffs said they were blindsided by the news and that Hartzell has not answered their many questions.
  — Char Adams, NBC News, 18 Apr. 2024
• Ramirez said his layoff notice takes effect at the end of this school year if not rescinded.
  — Dan Albano, Orange County Register, 23 Mar. 2024
• Amazon, which acquired Twitch in 2014, recently made layoffs at Twitch as part of a large wave of job cuts.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 7 June 2023
• Coding jobs are plentiful across industries, and the pay is good—even after the tech layoffs of the past year.
  — Kelli María Korducki, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2023
• The layoffs could be shifted to a later date, and the exact number is not yet definite.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2023
• Perhaps Ward will look more like himself in the second half after this long layoff.
  — cleveland, 13 Nov. 2022
• It’s been a brutal several months for those who work in the news industry, with too many layoffs to count.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 10 Apr. 2024
• Adverse changes in the labor market create wage cuts and layoffs.
  — Amiah Taylor, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
• As the strike against the Big Three reaches its sixth week, layoffs continue at the Detroit automakers.
  — Sara Powers, CBS News, 24 Oct. 2023
• The move is just the latest in what has become a litany of shutterings in Hollywood as the list of film studio layoffs grows longer.
  — Essence, 15 Aug. 2024
• Chumbley says her revenue has tumbled 50% the past two years and her staff has shrunk from 14 employees to seven through layoffs or attrition.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2024
• In a separate note to clients last week, analysts with Nomura Holdings financial group said layoffs stemming from the Boeing strike may also complicate the jobs picture in upcoming data.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2024

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lay off

2 of 2 verb

• Nadia Worsley, 35, was laid off twice in the last three years.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2024
• The number of people being laid off is said to be less than 10.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023
• Mendoza knows when to push Severino and when to lay off of him.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 20 July 2024
• Hawkins said the year they got married, each was laid off from their corporate jobs in the same week.
  — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 17 Jan. 2024
• Hamilton was one of many mine workers who was laid off.
  — Karina Atkins, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2024
• Nielsen laid off about 9% of its staff earlier this month.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
• Diaz was among the employees who were laid off in April.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
• In 1932, three years into the Depression, he was laid off.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 22 Apr. 2024
• In July of that year, the mega-dealer laid off 20 percent of its staff to make up for a shortfall in sales.
  — Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 1 Aug. 2024
• Those who worked at the local sawmill and paper mill, two bedrock employers in the area, were laid off in the past year too.
  — Kate Payne and David R. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
• Then in May 2021, he was laid off from his job and was subsequently bored.
  — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
• Betts worked a full count, laying off a low slider and high fastball with two strikes.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• And that could prompt more companies to lay off workers and spark a mild downturn.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
• If the show can’t go on, some 100 Bay Area actors and crew members will lose work, and the company will have to lay off staff.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
• One of my clients had worked in the finance industry for over 15 years when she was abruptly laid off.
  — Sherri Thomas, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
• The Swedish battery maker laid off 1,600 people two months ago.
  — Byandrew Nusca, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2024
• As a result, more money flowed to shops that weren’t planning on laying off anyone in the first place.
  — Matthew Desmond, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023
• The firm also announced plans to lay off about 20% of its U.S. staff, a sign of further disruption.
  — Francesca Fontana, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
• Solar companies say they’ve been shoved to the edge of a cliff, forcing them to lay off workers or even shut down.
  — Julie Cart, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
• The club laid off roughly 250 employees over the summer.
  — Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 28 Oct. 2024
• Restaurants in Burr Ridge have been hit hard with the virus as many had to close their dining areas and, therefore, lay off staff.
  — Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2022
• Since then, the company has stopped production, laid off workers and slashed the Ocean’s prices.
  — Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024
• Meta declined to share how many employees were laid off.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024
• As companies lay off employees, many have seen their stock prices rise in response to the news.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• Since then, the automakers have furloughed or laid off thousands of non-union workers at plants in five states.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2023
• Some have since been dehorned by the turn in the market, and many are scrambling to cut spending or lay off employees.
  — WIRED, 25 Aug. 2022
• Around this period, Musk is mulling the decision to lay off half of Twitter’s staff.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2022
• Goldman Sachs is set to lay off around 3,200 employees.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
• The agency laid off all employees and closed its doors last week, without clear plans to reopen.
  — Gina Lee Castro, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2024
• Thankfully, traditions aren't cliché, so lay off our case ya freakin' jabroni.
  — Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 27 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024