How to Use attrition in a Sentence

attrition

noun

• Attrition is high among social workers because of the difficult work and poor pay.
• What is the best way to curb the tidal wave of attrition?
  — Jason Richmond, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
• Trying to slow attrition and retain your team’s best people?
  — Jena McGregor, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
• Union leaders have pointed to attrition and a lack of steady replacement in the high-turnover food industry.
  — Jaewon Kang, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2022
• Less attrition means health care colleagues know one another, instead of each day being like a pick-up football game.
  — K. Jane Muir, STAT, 14 Jan. 2022
• His first defense was 10th in points, and the current unit is third despite heavy attrition in personnel.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Jan. 2022
• The first half was a battle of attrition with UC seemingly laboring to keep pace.
  — Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 9 Jan. 2022
• Capitol Police hope to bring on 280 officers per year to jump ahead of attrition, the report says.
  — Whitney Wild, CNN, 5 Jan. 2022
• In the next 10 years— There’s gonna be a lot of attrition.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Seattle's attrition rate has over doubled in the last two years.
  — Ryan Young, CNN, 2 Feb. 2022
• 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
• The match lasted two or three minutes, a relative war of attrition in conker terms.
  — Jamie Barton, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
• Chumbley says her revenue has tumbled 50% the past two years and her staff has shrunk from 14 employees to seven through layoffs or attrition.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024