How to Use rat race in a Sentence

rat race

noun

• The replies poured in — and not just from those caught up in the rat race.
  — New York Times, 18 Nov. 2021
• Salle Ingle is stuck in the same rat race as Kathy Ireland, and you and me, too.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2018
• Philley and his wife were looking to avoid the rat race and stress of life in the fourth largest city in the country.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 30 Oct. 2019
• The focus should be on wealth building, not incomes and the rat race.
  — WSJ, 10 Aug. 2021
• Alone time can be very healthy, so check out from the usual rat race and find yourself a spot in the slow lane.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• Ever dream of escaping the rat race, but feel too chained to your job or, more to the point, your salary?
  — Jon Gorey, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2019
• It’s a rat race in March between the gym, rehab and other projects like the one at the food bank warehouse.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 26 Apr. 2021
• Away from the rat race, the earth heals, the sun strengthens, water caresses.
  — Vogue, 30 Mar. 2022
• Musk has become their poster boy for a return to the pre-pandemic norms of the rat race.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2022
• That’s the funny thing about the New York rat race—everybody is dying to compete and no one can win.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 21 June 2019
• And afterward, guests rested up and prepared to end the Milan rat race in style.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2019
• Over seven years ago, Patty Kubeja moved to Kanab to get away from the rat race of living in Seattle.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Feb. 2022
• Those who are willing to join the rat race often have too little time or patience for dating -- which, for some, is where the MBTI comes in.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 22 July 2022
• In a city like New York, where life is often a rat race on steroids, King stands apart because warmth, style, and artfulness abound there.
  — Kitty Greenwald, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2022
• The pandemic and the Great Resignation destabilized the idea that workers must grin and bear the rat race five days a week.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2022
• In his world, both the modern rat race and its antithesis seem equally tainted.
  — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2017
• The whole thing about the general rat race, and people's values in life and family and work life balance.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Wired, 30 Apr. 2020
• Tangping has emerged over the last few months as the rallying call of Chinese millennials who have had enough of the rat race.
  — Washington Post, 5 June 2021
• More freedom, more enjoyment of life, less scrambling in a rat race—maybe that’s the right direction.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2021
• Sure, trying to do it all could be unrelenting at times; but everyone was in the rat race right along with her.
  — Trey Williams, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2022
• These were low-level entry jobs with long hours and grunt work, but soon Horwitz came up with a way out of the ladder-climbing Wall Street rat race.
  — Nathan Vardi, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021
• Then companies like Google came along and reinvented the rat race into something with purpose and, along the way, confused work with the rest of life.
  — Arielle Pardes, Wired, 24 Feb. 2020
• Americans who’ve pulled themselves out of the rat race of the daily grind in order to live as simply as possible.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 26 Apr. 2021
• These anachronistic twentysomethings are proud to be the odd men and women out of the digital-recording rat race.
  — Morgan Enos, Billboard, 20 Mar. 2018
• Dallasites do not have to travel far to find a waterside escape from the rat race.
  — Alyssa Fernandez, Dallas News, 29 July 2021
• Mars is in your domestic 4th house, giving you the chance to clock out of the rat race and focus on any matters at home that might require your attention.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2022
• That stagnation, Thiel claimed in his lecture at Yale, was linked to the credentialist rat race Vance and his classmates were engaged in.
  — Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2022
• Ironically enough, for me, a great way to escape the the rat race involves getting into one of another kind.
  — Rich Pope, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• Students like Lee trapped in this rat race wish the government would take a more holistic view of the problem, rather than trying to tweak just one component of a broken system.
  — Time, 7 July 2023
• The cost of excellence This educational rat race also takes a heavy toll on both students and parents.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 1 July 2023

Last Updated: 14 Sep 2024