How to Use understaffed in a Sentence

understaffed

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• The restaurant was understaffed and swamped with orders, and the AC in the kitchen was broken.
  — Bruce Gil, Quartz, 24 Oct. 2024
• And then there's the fact that restaurants are still understaffed.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 21 May 2022
• Many are angry that the police force is understaffed, the mayor said, and want more cops on the street.
  — Jennifer Peebles, ajc, 22 Sep. 2021
• In his 10th season with the Spurs, Mills has appeared in his share of games with the team outmanned and understaffed.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Feb. 2021
• But the jails are understaffed, with the main jail being about 15% short in staffing, according to Weekes.
  — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2024
• The records show the South Unit of the Florence prison was understaffed during the night shift on Jan. 23, when the prisoners escaped.
  — Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic, 5 Dec. 2021
• The office is understaffed, and low pay is one reason why.
  — Arika Herron, Axios, 5 Sep. 2024
• The Bethel Fire Department is understaffed right now, and Solesbee said firefighters worked hard to put out the rest of the fire.
  — Olivia Ebertz, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Aug. 2022
• Meanwhile, the county is down more than 300 social workers and is understaffed at the jail.
  — cleveland, 4 June 2022
• That’s out of a pool of 684 -- leaving many parts of the state dangerously understaffed, Thenell said.
  — oregonlive, 7 Oct. 2021
• The deaths have taken a toll on the force, which has been overworked and understaffed as leaders try to figure out how to move forward from the mistakes of Jan. 6.
  — Mary Clare Jalonick and Kevin Freking, Star Tribune, 13 Apr. 2021
• Police union leaders say the department is understaffed and point to that as a reason for the increase in crime.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2022
• The Haitian National Police are too understaffed and ill-equipped to combat the growing threat.
  — Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2021
• There are a ton of valid reasons restaurants are understaffed right now, argue with your uncle about that on your own time.
  — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 1 July 2021
• Asked he if believed the event had been understaffed and poorly planned, Scott said he was mostly involved with the creative side of of the festival.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 9 Dec. 2021
• Flores claimed that the kitchen was understaffed, with only three or four workers on during lunch, forcing her to work 50 to 60 hours per week.
  — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 13 July 2021
• St Louis is a violent city, and its homicide unit is overworked and understaffed.
  — The Economist, 8 May 2021
• And the unit was really understaffed, and getting paid time off approved could sometimes be tricky.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2024
• That’s a big difference from some of the older buildings, which have been so understaffed that some case managers have overseen as many as 85 clients at a time.
  — Trisha Thadani, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2023
• Workers said the restaurant was understaffed, and that the kitchen was without air conditioning for weeks.
  — Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 13 July 2021
• The department stated that although they were overworked and understaffed to handle the surge in homicide cases in the Charlotte metro area at the time.
  — Susan Welsh, ABC News, 12 May 2022
• This meant that many TB prevention services and clinics may have been closed or understaffed.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 1 May 2022
• Relief, though, likely won’t come overnight, as scaling up a system that has long been understaffed and overwhelmed could take months, or even years.
  — Trisha Thadani, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 July 2021
• The process is typically voluntary, which can be a tough sell when plants are understaffed.
  — Betsy Ladyzhets, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2023
• No longer will an understaffed sheriff’s office shoulder the burden on its own.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 12 May 2024
• My company has been woefully understaffed for months now with no end in sight.
  — Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2022
• But an official at an understaffed embassy in Kabul admitted to us that the to-do list feels daunting.
  — Graeme Smith, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2023
• Already understaffed ambulance services might be out a medic for weeks or months if they were injured.
  — Marion Renault, STAT, 7 July 2023
• By many accounts, Taiwan’s forces are poorly equipped and understaffed.
  — Amy Chang Chien, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2022
• The jails have been chronically understaffed for years.
  — Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, 13 June 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024