How to Use labor force in a Sentence

labor force

noun
  • Robots will be a labor force that needs no rest.
    — Eric Schmidt, Time, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The labor force has felt the effects.
    — Dan Gooding billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
  • How can tech expand if there is no one in the labor force left to hire?
    — Christopher Thornberg, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Many workers gave up a job search and exited the labor force last month.
    — Josh Mitchell, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
  • That is impacting, then, our labor force.
    — ABC News, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Major cautioned that labor force numbers tend to be volatile month to month.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The program provides farm owners with a short-term labor force.
    — Scott Morgenstern, The Conversation, 25 July 2025
  • Leaving the labor force means not working and not looking.
    — Richard Fowler, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Slightly more women dropped out of the labor force, and might return, which would be good news.
    — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Wages in white collar jobs outpaced those of trade jobs for years which pushed the labor force away from those skilled trades.
    — Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Women now make up half of the labor force for only the third time in history.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2023
  • In a bad sign, the overall size of the labor force shrank by 6,000 last month.
    — Michael E. Kanell, ajc, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Women with children under the age of five drove the outflow from the labor force.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The labor force and the number of employed both remain at record high levels.
    — Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The plight of working-class men in the labor force is worth underlining here.
    — Brad Wilcox, The Atlantic, 29 July 2025
  • The makeup of the US labor force also has changed.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • For some Americans in the labor force right now, that looks like a pension.
    — Martha C. White, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Foreign immigration plays a huge role in our low labor force growth.
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Not only was this huge cohort in the labor force, but the bulk were in their most productive years.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 7 June 2026
  • The other half of the 6 million missing workers are out of the labor force.
    — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Gen Z is set to make up about a third of the global labor force by 2030.
    — Jennifer Moss, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2025
  • That update increased the size of the labor force by more than 2 million workers.
    — Courtenay Brown, Axios, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Yet the profession has seen its labor force plummet while the number of herds of their four-legged clients have soared.
    — Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
  • This all comes as Michigan’s labor force is also struggling.
    — Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
  • When an oil shock drops onto that reality, these women cannot just leave the labor force.
    — Katica Roy, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Sarah Loyd, a single mother with two degrees, has been in and out of the labor force for the past four years.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • This was perhaps the greatest bifurcation of the labor force seen since the days of land barons.
    — Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • The bigger question that the industry will face is the labor force, some experts said.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Also on the negative side of the ledger was the change in Colorado’s labor force last year.
    — Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Today, about a third of teens are in the labor force, either working or looking for summer work.
    — Dianna Douglas, NPR, 6 June 2026

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