How to Use ground staff in a Sentence

ground staff

noun
  • Brave ground staff painted the base of the goalposts black, to remind the world of the victims of the regime.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • The level of churn in training-ground staff hints that the reality of working for Klopp was hard.
    — Simon Hughes, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Video shows the squirrel running onto the field, as ground staff and players attempt to capture it, but with no success.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 9 Feb. 2026
  • On the other hand, smaller regional airports may have fewer flights per day, limited ground staff, and longer wait times for assistance.
    — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2026
  • This would have required coordination between the crew, ground staff, and even airport security.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 3 May 2026
  • Caron added that the crew member involved was reportedly assisting ground staff by loading items as an extra set of hands and may have been left unaccounted for when the doors closed.
    — Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 14 Jan. 2026
  • By the time the flight landed in Baltimore, airport fire crews were in place for a traditional water cannon salute, and ground staff waited at the gate with cheers and a bottle of champagne.
    — Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 3 May 2026
  • That includes sharing intel, like passing along a sighting of an enemy, allowing other aircraft to avoid it, or relaying commands to a Lifter-Lite that’s lost its connection with ground staff.
    — Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Venue Management volunteers help keep locker rooms in order (don’t expect to have direct contact with players), direct deliveries, and generally assist on-ground staff.
    — Meredith Heil Bock, AFAR Media, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Guardiola was often at loggerheads with ground staff, though, over the length of the grass and state of the playing surfaces at the Etihad and the training ground, with the Catalan asking for things that the staff did not feel were possible.
    — Sam Lee, New York Times, 25 May 2026
  • The results also come on the heels of Qantas recently being hit with a record A$90 million penalty for illegally sacking 1,800 ground staff.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2025
  • During the pandemic in 2020, Qantas’ senior management decided to lay off 1,820 ground staff and shift their work to contractors.
    — CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The carrier said the incident involving the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner occurred shortly after noon Thursday while it was parked at the gate, with only crew members and ground staff on board.
    — ABC News, 4 June 2026
  • According to the Associated Press and Reuters, the nose gear of a Lufthansa Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner had collapsed with crew members and ground staff on board.
    — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 4 June 2026

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'ground staff.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: