How to Use vocation in a Sentence

vocation

noun
  • This isn't just a job for me; it's a vocation.
  • He never felt a real sense of vocation.
  • I'm a carpenter by vocation, but my hobby is painting.
  • And does Ainara go through with her vocation?
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Getting ready for the next storm is now a year-round vocation.
    — Ron Hurtibise, Sun-Sentinel.com, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Since the protests began, she's felt called to a new vocation.
    — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 30 June 2020
  • Now food and drink have become his vocation.
    — Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Now the sport has become a vocation and that’s how athletes look at it.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 16 Oct. 2018
  • If pursued in the right way, your vocation could add years of healthy living.
    — Matt Fuchs, Fortune Well, 14 May 2023
  • For a man who relied on his brain and his body for his life’s vocation, the news couldn’t have been worse.
    — Mary Ann Gwinn, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • But his real calling - his vocation - was the search for truth.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2021
  • But his real calling — his vocation — was the search for truth.
    — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2021
  • In place of what she’s given up, her illness has become a kind of vocation.
    — Rachael Bedard, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The Dakar is a nomadic race whose vocation is to explore the deserts in the world.
    — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Being a stay-at-home mom to their five children became her main vocation.
    — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Urbano believes there’s a greater purpose at work in her life, and in her vocation.
    — Paul Eisenberg, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Fine art was for white people who came from a different class—one in which art could be a vocation.
    — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Your vocation is where your passion intersects with what the world needs.
    — Plain Dealer Staff, cleveland, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Although in the past, many saw the food business and farming as a vocation, this is no longer the case.
    — Aidan Connolly, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • Although in the past, many saw the food business and farming as a vocation, this is no longer the case.
    — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 9 Oct. 2023
  • An aspirant also asks donors for their prayers and keeps them up-to-date on the progress of their vocation.
    — WSJ, 26 Mar. 2022
  • There is no such thing as a part-time artist, even if some must work at other vocations in order to survive.
    — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Others feel called to devote years to this work, to step into herbalism as a vocation.
    — Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
  • For Tuchel, this is not a vocation, just a job, and only an 18-month one at that.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 21 Mar. 2025
  • In return, trackers are paid for their work, turning a way of life into a vocation.
    — Michael Cross; Story By Tom Page, CNN, 9 July 2020
  • Men who live without wife or children, who have lost or never had a vocation, are like men next to their own car crash.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Given their profession is as much a vocation as a cash-cow business, that is the name of the game.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The apparent rareness of his vocation tells us this is a world where widespread medicine doesn’t exist yet.
    — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 22 Aug. 2018
  • Those who professed a vocation for the work were the least troubled, even in the initial stages of their career.
    — Will Self, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
  • And for fishing guide Eric Watts, the lake is the source of his vocation.
    — Arkansas Online, 21 June 2026

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