How to Use severance in a Sentence

severance

noun

• At 31, he was laid off and used his severance to start over.
  — Robert Simonson, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2022
• The judge has not yet ruled on the men’s requests for dismissals and severance.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2022
• Mark chose severance after a tragic loss, and the brain split works for him.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2022
• Jagger paid off the bills, the employees’ salaries and their severance.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2022
• At that rate of pay, the severance package he had been offered was the equivalent of about six months of pay.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2022
• The total amount of his severance package is $105 million in cash and stock.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 16 Dec. 2021
• Focus on getting the severance you were promised and a great reference for a new job.
  — Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Feb. 2023
• As part of the agreement, Mack will receive a $4.8 million severance payment from the school.
  — Hayes Gardner, The Courier-Journal, 28 Jan. 2022
• The city hasn’t yet released details of any severance package for Greene.
  — oregonlive, 2 Nov. 2022
• In some cases, my clients received two incomes for a while, the severance income and the new job income.
  — Robert Hellmann, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2023
• Focus now on getting the severance you were promised along with a great reference for a new job.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
• The company laid off a bunch of people, eating $3.4 million in severance costs alone over the next few months.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
• The next morning, Marks shared that Kavin is providing the staff a severance package.
  — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2021
• The severance payment is larger than called for in Boogs Muething's contract.
  — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 27 Dec. 2021
• Gerber’s contract with the city of Shawnee states that his firing without cause would require the city to pay six months worth of his salary as severance.
  — Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
• But each of those executives is set to walk away with a hefty severance package.
  — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2022
• There are more good quotes to be found in the scene in which Beth meets with her former employers to discuss her severance package.
  — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2021
• However, the talks didn't end in a deal, and the severance lawsuits continue.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 10 July 2024
• Fox News withheld over 30% of the settlement for taxes like they would for a payment of wages or a severance payment.
  — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2023
• Those who aren't accepted for new roles will receive four months of severance.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2023
• They have been told benefits will last through next week and there will be no severance, according to one person briefed on the plans.
  — Stephen Battagliostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2022
• Those who are unable to find new roles at the broader company will be given at least six months of severance.
  — Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2022
• Kinney, who was making around $21.75 an hour, took the third option: walking away with two months’ severance.
  — Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 5 July 2023
• The typical formula for a severance package is one or two weeks of pay for each year of service.
  — Vanessa Fuhrmans, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2022
• Come up with a name for a company that offers this severance service.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 16 June 2023
• But when work and home life bleed into each other, severance seems more and more appealing.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 20 Aug. 2022
• Seven years on from the vote and three from the ultimate severance of ties with the EU, the UK is going through something of an employment poly-crisis.
  — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 1 Feb. 2023
• The company took severance charges of €41 million in Q1 related to the layoffs.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 25 Apr. 2023
• Such rules are a pretext to shed workers without severance, experts maintain.
  — Nick Rockel, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
• The person with knowledge of the company said Trump Media asked the employees to sign an agreement pledging not to make public claims of wrongdoing against the company in exchange for severance.
  — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024