How to Use burnout in a Sentence

burnout

1 of 2 noun
  • Teaching can be very stressful, and many teachers eventually suffer burnout.
  • Can any trip be a burnout trip?
    — Opheli Garcia Lawler, Travel + Leisure, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Choose modes for stress, sleep, burnout, pain and more.
    — Mitti Hicks, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
  • This is when burnout at work begins.
    — Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Silent burnout isn’t a niche issue.
    — Mark C. Perna, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • This helps prevent burnout and keeps your mind fresh.
    — Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • What most of us get instead is the slow creep of burnout.
    — Rochelle Ratkaj, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Where are the nation’s top ‘burnout belts’?
    — Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2026
  • Still, for many doctors, burnout is not just about time.
    — Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The first step to stop silent burnout is to break the silence around it.
    — Mark C. Perna, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • The risk is that stress and burnout will drive these workers out the door.
    — Lauren Weber, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2021
  • The game is linked to real-world time, which lessens your risk of burnout.
    — Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 1 Feb. 2024
  • This only leads to burnout and job errors.
    — Kate Wieczorek, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • This often leads to burnout or even illness.
    — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The stage run reignited what burnout had put on the back burner.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 4 June 2026
  • Further, no one is immune to silent burnout.
    — Mark C. Perna, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • For them, the challenge can be burnout and lack of resources.
    — Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Seen this way, burnout is like the fever or the yellowing leaf.
    — Sandro Da Silva, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But that cycle often leads to burnout.
    — Jane Marie Chen, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Shifting away from a state of burnout won’t happen overnight.
    — Jia Rizvi, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The fatigue from burnout isn’t poor sleep hygiene.
    — Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Use respite care and support groups to lighten the load and avoid burnout.
    — Verywell Health, 29 Apr. 2025
  • One builds empires, the other leads to burnout.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Address burnout head-on, or work against your own success.
    — Tara Fitzpatrick-Navarro, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • For others, many small events that drive stress can also lead to burnout.
    — Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 20 July 2025
  • For years, workplace experts have warned about burnout.
    — Bybryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • Even worse, leaders end up overwhelmed and risk their own burnout at work.
    — Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • If things were like this every day, the burnout would be hard to overcome.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Six months in, clinician burnout hadn’t budged.
    — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Survival mode and burnout soon followed.
    — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 27 Jan. 2026

burn out

2 of 2 verb
  • Don't let the fire burn out on this deal.
    — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 15 May 2026
  • She's burned out and she's had it as well.
    — Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 20 June 2026
  • People are burnt out for the day.
    — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
  • We were all feeling burned out.
    — Tarun Galagali, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Hunger without skills will burn out.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Put plainly, that he was burnt out.
    — Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The exhaust hood had two burnt out lights.
    — Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado april 3, Sacbee.com, 3 Apr. 2026
  • People drop out, age out, and burn out.
    — Corey Buhay, Outside, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Okay, so maybe you’re silently burned out.
    — Mark C. Perna, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • They’re burned out on the idea of looking for the next job.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 14 May 2026
  • But workers do say that they are burnt out, they are stressed.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
  • So at the very top of this list is don't burn out your battery.
    — USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2022
  • The easy thing would have been to push harder and burn out faster.
    — Raquel Gomes, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Fire can be seen still burning, while much of the area is burned out.
    — Hallie Jackson, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2023
  • So that is the reason I don’t get burnt out.
    — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Their scrawl rushed across the page, as if the words were burning out of them.
    — Douglas Stuart, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Working hard is not the same as being burned out.
    — Tiffany Aliche, SELF, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Much of the debris is piled and burned out of fire season.
    — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Many thought Bridges was burnt out by the end of last season.
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 25 June 2024
  • For the last nine shows, she was completely burned out.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2025
  • John ran it into a tall patch of grass and the motor burned out.
    — Marni Jameson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 July 2018
  • If the staff burns out, there is a long list of replacements.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Something may catch on fire without wind and burn out in one spot.
    — Zachary Smith, cleveland, 21 Nov. 2022
  • It’s often coupled with burn out and stress.
    — Vicki Salemi, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • They’re done holding it all in and burning out in the process.
    — Bronwen Sciortino, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Here’s a timeline of how the blaze burned out of control.
    — Samra Zulfaqar, CNN Money, 28 Nov. 2025
  • If you're burnt out of crossovers, the coupe is the antidote.
    — Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2017
  • The mortar is so burned out with the salt air, after so many years.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 3 Sep. 2017
  • When you're burned out, the instinct is often to push through.
    — Tiffany Aliche, SELF, 30 Mar. 2026
  • While the body enjoys the day’s languor, the mind must not burn out.
    — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 4 July 2022

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