How to Use rehire in a Sentence

rehire

1 of 2 verb
  • Those teachers have since been rehired on part-time pay.
    — Nuria Martinez-Keel, Oklahoma Voice, 12 May 2026
  • He was laid off and then rehired multiple times.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 2 June 2026
  • In a lot of cases, airlines had to rehire flight crews and are still in that process.
    — courant.com, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The group has even been able to rehire some of the staff members that were laid off in March.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2020
  • So the board just days later rehired Altman.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Prasad was later pushed out and rehired with fewer powers.
    — Arthur Allen, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Those who aren’t rehired will receive four months of severance.
    — Amber Burton, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023
  • He was rehired as a language-arts teacher in 2009.
    — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 29 May 2026
  • Many restaurants are waiting due to both safety concerns and needing to take time to rehire.
    — Serena Dai, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Now, travel demand is back, and the industry is struggling to catch up and rehire.
    — CNN, 3 Aug. 2022
  • At the time, those scouts expected to be rehired once the pandemic ended.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The gimmick came about when he was unexpectedly rehired for a third time.
    — Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Horn won’t comment on Gunn’s tweets or the decision that saw Gunn rehired.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Police everywhere should be angry that a loose cannon has been rehired.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Fox subsequently quit after being rehired, but didn't stay gone for long.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The Guthrie, like other big companies, also has to rehire staff.
    — Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, 30 Apr. 2021
  • But the shop wouldn’t be fully back to normal until tourism ramps up enough for Warlick to rehire some of his beloved staff.
    — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Airports too struggled to rehire ground crew and air traffic controllers at a speed that matched the rise in travel demand.
    — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Still, the next year, he was rehired for the war effort, not for combat missions this time but other translation work.
    — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
  • Scott’s director of public works lasted less than two years, then was rehired as consultant.
    — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Eric Bieniemy, who had three different jobs in the past three years, has been rehired.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Fein was rehired by one of his clients, who wasn't pleased with ChatGPT's work.
    — Pranshu Verma, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
  • Fein was rehired by one of his clients, who wasn’t pleased with ChatGPT’s work.
    — Pranshu Verma and Gerrit De Vynck, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2023
  • More recently, the Met offered to rehire guards who had been laid off, though not all have returned to work, per Curbed.
    — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2022
  • The measure played a crucial role in restarting shoots and rehiring crews — a welcome lifeline, though far from a structural fix.
    — Caio Delcolli, IndieWire, 26 Nov. 2025
  • But Walmart refused to rehire her, even though her termination letter said she could be hired again, her lawyers said.
    — Michael Levenson, Star Tribune, 18 July 2021
  • When, weeks later, the show got a waiver and resumed shooting, Shoemaker was not rehired.
    — Sofía Tafich, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Walmart also refused to rehire her when Spaeth requested it, the lawsuit said.
    — CBS News, 19 July 2021
  • This is the second time that Broncos have rehired a former head coach for a coordinator role.
    — Jaylon Thompson, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Getting your firm discovered, hired, and ideally, rehired, is what keeps the whole engine running.
    — Lila Allen, Architectural Digest, 6 July 2026

rehire

2 of 2 noun
  • What makes boomerang employees great rehires and even better leaders?
    — Emily Venizelos, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
  • And employees who lose their jobs will be eligible for rehire.
    — oregonlive, 28 Oct. 2022
  • This will also help the current employees to collaborate well with the rehire.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 29 June 2021
  • Privately, former employees have continued to lament the no-rehire rule.
    — oregonlive, 21 May 2022
  • Any staff who were involved in drafting guidance that conflicted with state law would not be eligible for rehire, according to the plan.
    — Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 May 2022
  • Trump rehires thousands of probationary workers You’re fired.
    — Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Remember, the top is always narrow, so keep your great talent in good books and even look for rehire opportunities (boomerang employees).
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
  • This information includes keeping dates of new hires, raises, rehires, review/feedback notes and a host of other employee-centric items.
    — Sean Manning, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The inspector general had recommended that the lieutenant be discharged and placed on an ineligible for rehire list.
    — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2020
  • If an employee cannot be accommodated in their position, they could be terminated but would be eligible for rehire.
    — Katie Rice, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Aug. 2021
  • However, challenges may emerge in areas already impacted, such as transportation, food services and special education, which may not see as many rehires.
    — Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Employees returning to a former company often make the mistake of not taking the rehire interview seriously.
    — Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2022
  • Under the department’s civil service rules, adopted in 2018, Winston is not eligible for rehire.
    — Taylor Pettaway, ExpressNews.com, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The provisional three-year pact, announced on Friday, offers union members advance notice of layoffs and preferential treatment for rehire and a minimum of eight weeks of severance if they are cut from the job.
    — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Yale New Haven employees terminated for non-compliance with the vaccine mandate would be eligible for rehire if they eventually get vaccinated, Balcezak said.
    — Eliza Fawcett, courant.com, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Seth Hyman’s three-year tenure as an assistant state attorney ended in October 2017 with him being marked ineligible for rehire, according to records obtained by the Orlando Sentinel.
    — Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 11 July 2024
  • Rios initially sued the Forest Service in February 2021 after he was denied rehire rights, the hiring process federal firefighters undergo every fire season, after a social media post criticized his managers' lax handling of Covid safety guidelines.
    — NBC News, 18 Apr. 2022

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