How to Use on furlough in a Sentence

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• Many of them had been on furlough for months and were waiting to be called back to work.
  — Peggy O’Hare, ExpressNews.com, 1 Sep. 2020
• The theater laid off over 70% of its staff, and a number of others remain on furlough.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 19 Mar. 2021
• Millions of people have lost jobs, been placed on furlough or switched to working from home.
  — Christina Maslach, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2022
• Liao was called back into work in March after being on furlough for a year.
  — Washington Post, 11 June 2021
• When the pandemic arrived a year ago, the hotel sent her and her co-workers home on furlough.
  — Jonathan O'Connell, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2021
• At the end of January, there were 2.7 million people in Germany and 4.7 million in the U.K. still on furlough.
  — Eric Sylvers, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2021
• Millions, of course, were either laid off or put on furlough during the crisis.
  — John F. Wasik, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
• On Thursday, that support started to be phased out with companies with staff still on furlough having to pick up 10% of the bill.
  — Pan Pylas, Star Tribune, 1 July 2021
• Almost a third of Disney park workers, many of whom had been on furlough since April, are affected.
  — Adam Epstein, Quartz, 30 Sep. 2020
• My older sister moved in with me after she was placed on furlough because of the pandemic.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2021
• The Pod Philly Hotel is one of those temporarily closed -- with nearly all of its 30-person staff on furlough.
  — Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 28 Sep. 2020
• According to The Detroit News, the employee has been on furlough since earlier this year.
  — Caitlin Conant, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2020
• Munoz, a San Antonio resident, has been on furlough from Marriott since March.
  — Peggy O’Hare, ExpressNews.com, 1 Sep. 2020
• By contrast, more than half of all workers in the arts, entertainment and recreation sector remained on furlough.
  — Paul Hannon and Jason Douglas, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2020
• The ad featuring a grainy mugshot of a dark-skinned Black prisoner named Willie Horton, who, after being released on furlough, raped a White woman and stabbed her boyfriend.
  — John Blake, CNN, 26 Sep. 2020
• Lack of reliable migration data, the fact that some workers are still on furlough and the uncertainty of the pandemic have all made the true picture more opaque.
  — New York Times, 17 June 2021
• Like many restauranteurs, Boulud was compelled to close most of his restaurants outside of New York City and put the majority of his employees on furlough last year.
  — Anne Quito, Quartz, 8 June 2021
• Analysts forecast that unemployment, which has remained steady so far as companies were able to put workers on furlough or cut wages, will climb in the fall.
  — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 16 June 2022
• This applies both to those returning to the workplace after months on furlough and those who have continued working throughout the pandemic, now feeling close to burnout in many instances.
  — Sally Percy, Forbes, 10 May 2021
• With more than two million people still on furlough (temporary layoff), more payroll reports approaching one million are not out of the question.
  — Jeffrey Schulze, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• When the pandemic first hit, Rachel said she was put on furlough and was able to take advantage of unemployment benefits until the industry reopened.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 27 Dec. 2021
• Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 42, has been on furlough from prison because of the coronavirus pandemic after serving nearly all of her sentence.
  — Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2020
• During the most eventful stretch of months in recent history, 160 Tribune editorial staffers have been on furlough for a week out of each month to appease the boundless greed of corporate shareholders.
  — Rachel Hawley, The New Republic, 10 June 2020
• Carnival rides are a big part of Homecoming, but with state ride inspectors on furlough, there was no guarantee our rides could be inspected and certified by the state, which is unacceptable to us.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 9 June 2020
• Authorities had released Zaghari-Ratcliffe from prison on furlough last March because of the surging coronavirus pandemic, and she had been detained in her parents' Tehran home since.
  — Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 26 Apr. 2021
• Like many employees who were placed on furlough by their employers or let go entirely, Kevin is struggling with re-entering the workforce with his previous employer.
  — Marco Buscaglia, chicagotribune.com, 20 Aug. 2020
• Sunak will pledge to keep subsidizing wages of workers on furlough until September, with businesses asked to contributing to costs starting in July, according to a statement from the Treasury.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 3 Mar. 2021
• Marriott International plans to lay off 673 people after placing two-thirds of its corporate employees on furlough in March.
  — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2020
• The jobs market is currently being propped up by government subsidies, with close to 4 million workers on furlough programs, according to estimates by the Ifo Institute.
  — Carolynn Look, Bloomberg.com, 30 Sep. 2020
• But companies that idled factories or put workers on furlough during lockdowns are now unable to secure enough raw materials to build the houses, make the cars or assemble the appliances that are suddenly in high demand.
  — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 13 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024