How to Use attrition in a Sentence

attrition

noun

• Attrition is high among social workers because of the difficult work and poor pay.
• In the next 10 years— There’s gonna be a lot of attrition.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
• What is the best way to curb the tidal wave of attrition?
  — Jason Richmond, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
• For the Ukrainian forces, this war is one of attrition.
  — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
• This was a battle of attrition and our pace wore on them a bit.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 25 Aug. 2023
• Talked about this over and over as being a war of attrition.
  — ABC News, 11 Sep. 2022
• The problem is that there are two key variables in a war of attrition.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2023
• Utah State has a short bench, and short benches don’t win wars of attrition.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024
• Of course, fans don’t want to hear about injuries and how football is a game of attrition.
  — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 17 Oct. 2021
• Last year, the agency hired one above attrition for the entire year.
  — David McFadden, ajc, 6 Sep. 2021
• Over the next dozen years, Haitian rebels and French soldiers waged a vicious war of attrition.
  — Matthew Brown, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024
• The instructing needs now take up the bulk of his time, as the agency works to plug gaps from attrition with new hires.
  — Eli M. Rosenberg, NBC News, 12 Aug. 2022
• There could be attrition on the right if those lawmakers take too much heat and walk away.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 30 May 2023
• Ukraine is also seeing a high attrition rate, the UK added.
  — Bloomberg News, Bloomberg.com, 12 Feb. 2023
• More than 120 days later, the two countries appear to be locked in a long war of attrition.
  — Jacquelyn Schneider, WSJ, 7 July 2022
• Given the history of attrition in this unit, the Ravens have to be thrilled with their full suite of options.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• Kellett was the first driver to crash this month, but was able to survive the attrition and complete the 500 miles for the second time.
  — Rob Peeters, The Indianapolis Star, 29 May 2022
• The longer the pause between basket and payment, the bigger the attrition rate of customers who drop out.
  — Ozan Ozerk, Forbes, 10 June 2022
• This is one war of attrition that Russia looks to be losing.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
• The summer offensive could well extend through the end of 2023 and lead to a long and grinding war of attrition.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023
• Perhaps most important for a long-term war of attrition in Ukraine is the cost.
  — Michael Peck, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2023
• In a bloody war of attrition on the eastern front, Russian forces have steadily gained ground.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
• Seattle's attrition rate has over doubled in the last two years.
  — Ryan Young, CNN, 2 Feb. 2022
• The first three games of the season had come with an inordinate amount of attrition.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Oct. 2021
• At some point, the Cleveland Cavaliers were bound to lose the battle of attrition.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 15 Nov. 2021
• Though the conflict dragged on through four years of a brutal war of attrition, the impact of the blockade was dramatic.
  — Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, The New Republic, 13 Dec. 2022
• Auburn safety Cayden Bridges recovered it in the end zone to end a battle of attrition on the Plains.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 25 Sep. 2022
• For all the attrition, the unit did much better against expectations in the 2-4 finish than the offense did.
  — Kenny Rosarion, Sun Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2024
• Long-range attacks have been a feature of the nearly three-year war, where on the front line snaking about 600 miles from northeast to southern Ukraine, the armies have been engaged in a war of attrition.
  — Hanna Arhirova and Yehor Konovalov, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
• Then the struggle settled into a grinding war of attrition, with both sides spending enormous amounts of blood and treasure for minor changes in territory.
  — Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 21 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 18 Feb 2025