How to Use personnel in a Sentence

personnel

noun
  • They've reduced the number of personnel working on the project.
  • She's the director of personnel.
  • Talk to personnel if you have any questions about your health insurance.
  • Adding new personnel to the mix at such a time could be ill advised.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Great coaches though find great ways to best use their personnel.
    — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Arniel didn’t blame his personnel.
    — Murat Ates, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The third was rescued by personnel on the ground.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Most of those new personnel are unarmed.
    — Charlotte Observer, 3 Oct. 2025
  • All of this starts with personnel—who is recruited and how they are trained.
    — Paul Rosenzweig, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Graham is known for adapting his scheme to fit his personnel.
    — Dianna Russini, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Bloomberg appeared to wave off any help from personnel on the sideline.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 9 June 2026
  • Slow down and move over for roadside crews and safety personnel.
    — Stephen J. Beard, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Some of it was their back-end personnel and scoring approach.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2022
  • For fans, that means the eye-gauging 12-personnel days are over.
    — Noah White, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Part of the issue with the subpar play in recent years has been the personnel.
    — Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Thank you to the emergency personnel and venue staff who stepped in with care and support.
    — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 23 June 2026
  • The train was stopped for about two hours as emergency personnel processed the scene.
    — CBS News, 22 June 2026
  • Alongside the lack of personnel, some vital functions have slowed to a crawl.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Monday came and went without any personnel changes.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The judge did not press the new attorneys for details about the rare, last-minute personnel switch.
    — Carrie Johnson, NPR, 30 Oct. 2025
  • And emergency personnel can’t get to you till after the storm.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
  • There are not enough personnel to meet the Navy's demands, the watchdog added.
    — Ellie Cook shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Not change the personnel, but shift the personnel within the shape.
    — Kyle Foley, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 May 2026
  • Some of our personnel is a little bit different this year than the last couple of years.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 4 Nov. 2022
  • This means fire rescue personnel will work 24 hours and then be off for 72.
    — Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Sep. 2025
  • But that doesn't mean that personnel moves don't happen during late summer.
    — Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Other teams mixed in the zone for varying personnel reasons.
    — Jim Root, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The main aim was to allow the military personnel to see in low-light and no-light areas.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 4 Feb. 2026
  • For months, the county has been hiring and training personnel.
    — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 27 May 2023
  • But once those tasks are done, there is still a lot of personnel work to put together to have the right players on the field.
    — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Jan. 2026

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