How to Use layoff in a Sentence

layoff

1 of 2 noun
  • The band finally has a new album after a three year layoff.
  • More layoffs are expected at the factory later this year.
  • The company announced the layoff of several hundred employees.
  • There could be more layoffs to come.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Boards did not ask for layoffs.
    — Julie Averill, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • The first round of layoffs cut deep enough.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The layoffs were what came back.
    — Julie Averill, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Had a layoff, were rusty, and messy.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 23 May 2026
  • Wait too long, and layoffs spread.
    — Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • All those layoffs are on hold (for now).
    — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Jassy's cost cuts haven't just been around layoffs.
    — Annie Palmer, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The layoffs would be the first in over a decade for the city.
    — Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 7 May 2026
  • The layoffs will start on April 1.
    — Neal Riley, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Third off layoff and going around two turns might wake this one up.
    — Michael Beychok, NOLA.com, 23 Jan. 2021
  • But that’s not a flashing red light that layoffs are on the way.
    — Jake Angelo, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2026
  • And the layoffs are not paying off.
    — Julie Averill, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Some of it, inevitably, will come from layoffs.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The courts have halted those layoffs.
    — The Npr Network, NPR, 30 Oct. 2025
  • There was no mention of layoffs.
    — Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 30 Mar. 2026
  • This is not the first wave of layoffs at the SK plant.
    — Mirtha Donastorg, AJC.com, 6 Mar. 2026
  • That was a big race for him off the layoff and love the wins at this distance and track.
    — Ed Derosa, The Courier-Journal, 6 May 2022
  • What if Intel has to do layoffs?
    — CNBC, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The rate of layoffs also remains at an all-time low.
    — Rob Wile, NBC news, 3 Apr. 2026
  • No layoffs or furloughs are planned and vendors will be paid.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The layoff is the second-largest closure for the state this year.
    — Desiree Mathurin april 14, Charlotte Observer, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Erceg didn’t look sharp after a long layoff from pitching.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 24 May 2026
  • The hiring rate was unchanged, while the layoffs rate fell.
    — Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The newsroom’s union staged a one-day walkout in protest of the layoffs.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Third off the layoff and had a couple of nice speed figures on fast tracks last year.
    — Star Tribune, 2 July 2021
  • The tech sector has had thousands of layoffs.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026

lay off

2 of 2 verb
  • D’Onofrio wants Bruce to lay off and makes all kinds of threats.
    — Donald Liebenson, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2021
  • For now, though, maybe just lay off the crush-finding for at least a little while.
    — Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 6 May 2021
  • The company has been forced to jack up prices and lay off workers.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Vargas laid off a cutter in the dirt, running the count full.
    — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2025
  • Betts worked a full count, laying off a low slider and high fastball with two strikes.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Mendoza knows when to push Severino and when to lay off of him.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 20 July 2024
  • Hawkins said the year they got married, each was laid off from their corporate jobs in the same week.
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The second month rolled around, and my roommate didn’t have her share of the rent and claimed to have been laid off.
    — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The number of people being laid off is said to be less than 10.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023
  • And that could prompt more companies to lay off workers and spark a mild downturn.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
  • The rookie might not be used to laying off the dark uniforms in team drills elsewhere.
    — Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 23 July 2025
  • Nadia Worsley, 35, was laid off twice in the last three years.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Her venues alone have had to lay off close to 2,000 employees.
    — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2020
  • But the group often had to lay off its workers when funding from the state and other sources was cut off.
    — Dan Petrella, chicagotribune.com, 1 Nov. 2021
  • As a result, more money flowed to shops that weren’t planning on laying off anyone in the first place.
    — Matthew Desmond, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Those who worked at the local sawmill and paper mill, two bedrock employers in the area, were laid off in the past year too.
    — Kate Payne and David R. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Solar companies say they’ve been shoved to the edge of a cliff, forcing them to lay off workers or even shut down.
    — Julie Cart, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
  • One of my clients had worked in the finance industry for over 15 years when she was abruptly laid off.
    — Sherri Thomas, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The shutdown caused the company to lay off almost all of the employees.
    — Chanel Stitt, Detroit Free Press, 11 Feb. 2021
  • Ben Rice laid off a 3-2 slider that was well outside of the strike zone to walk and load the bases with two outs.
    — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 11 July 2025
  • Firms often lay off less-skilled workers and try to increase the employment of skilled workers.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
  • At the onset of the pandemic, Compass was forced to lay off 15% of its staff.
    — Noah Kirsch, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
  • He was forced to lay off 20 of his 39 employees and reduce his business hours.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Then in May 2021, he was laid off from his job and was subsequently bored.
    — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Since then, the company has stopped production, laid off workers and slashed the Ocean’s prices.
    — Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024
  • The Swedish battery maker laid off 1,600 people two months ago.
    — Byandrew Nusca, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Owner Kwan Chotikulthanachai, 43, was forced to lay off all her employees.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2020
  • In July of that year, the mega-dealer laid off 20 percent of its staff to make up for a shortfall in sales.
    — Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Unable to collect rent, many were forced to take on debt, lay off staff, delay repairs and, in some cases, sell their property.
    — Michael Casey, Fortune, 3 May 2026
  • Restaurants in Burr Ridge have been hit hard with the virus as many had to close their dining areas and, therefore, lay off staff.
    — Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2022

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