How to Use hire out in a Sentence

hire out

verb
  • The people that are hired out there have to have passed a background check.
    — Lexi Salazar, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • If climbing a ladder is no longer safe for you, this is a task worth hiring out.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Ninman did most of the work himself, but the couple hired out to do the plumbing, Tresl says.
    — Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Over the last two years, Glenn was the only Black coach hired out of 17 openings.
    — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • If Tallahassee would stop breaking the laws of our state, Uthmeier would not need to hire out-of-state lawyers to cover his workload.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2026
  • The Dallas Police Department is being hired out by a fugitive.
    — J.d. Miles, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Left to hire out his time while his enslaver vacationed in Bermuda, Grimes went to the Savannah harbor seeking work.
    — Regina E. Mason, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Today, second harpists are usually hired out as a freelance position and rarely part of permanent orchestra rosters.
    — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The key thing was hiring out members that would complement the existing talent, then creating new processes that benefited the team rather than scare them away.
    — Nancy Pulciano, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The last time the Dolphins hired out of Green Bay, the public idea was coach Joe Philbin would bring quarterback Matt Flynn.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Mercenaries hired out of Florida assassinated the president of Haiti.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 18 Mar. 2026
  • In an Instagram post, Joe Panzarella, president of the Freedmen’s Town Super Neighborhood in Houston’s Fourth Ward, said a private developer that hired out contractors was responsible for the brick removal.
    — Yvette Orozco, Houston Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2026

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