How to Use burnout in a Sentence

burnout

1 of 2 noun

• Teaching can be very stressful, and many teachers eventually suffer burnout.
• But even if middle managers stick it out—burnout and all—the trouble keeps coming.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2024
• Quiet quitting is a result of burnout, according to experts.
  — Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2022
• An epidemic of teacher burnout has many school districts struggling to fill positions.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 28 Aug. 2022
• Experts worry that burnout is leading many to leave the workforce altogether.
  — Trey Williams, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2022
• An aggressive hiring process to bring the department up to budgeted strength and prevent burnout.
  — Layla McMurtrie, Detroit Free Press, 25 Aug. 2022
• Employees are taking a stand against hustle culture (and by proxy, burnout) and declining to perform tasks they aren’t being paid for.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 1 Sep. 2022
• Quiet quitting is ultimately a form of burnout and a silent protest against what some consider unhealthy workplace cultures.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2022
• The group has led other protests nationwide, saying the grueling work conditions of the pandemic have led to burnout among nurses.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 30 Aug. 2022
• This type of thinking may lead to escalation of conflict, emotional burnout, and rigid boundaries that prevent growth or connection.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
• Quiet quitting really highlights the impact of pandemic fatigue and burnout.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2022
• But throwing yourself completely into resistance mode will ultimately lead to burnout.
  — Allie Volpe, Vox, 11 Nov. 2024
• Workers, for their part, complain that the leaner PSR model has heaped more work upon them, causing more fatigue, injury, and burnout.
  — WIRED, 1 Sep. 2022
• After two years of weathering pandemic health concerns, learning loss, and tense public scrutiny, teacher burnout is surging nationwide.
  — Gabe Cohen, CNN, 31 Aug. 2022
• That practice, which started last year, comes at the risk of staff burnout, says Mr. Dougherty, while noting that many of these employees would seek out multiple jobs even if the hotel didn’t offer them.
  — Allison Pohle, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2022
• Citing a recent survey of direct care workers, Nicole Marchesi, who works in the ombudsman’s office, said increasing staff ratios could help prevent burnout and turnover.
  — Rose Lundy, ProPublica, 27 Nov. 2024
• For Dusick, the point of burnout was right around the corner.
  — Autumn Micketti, SPIN, 4 May 2023
• The game is linked to real-world time, which lessens your risk of burnout.
  — Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 1 Feb. 2024
• For them, the challenge can be burnout and lack of resources.
  — Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2024
• While 42% of Gen Xers feel burnout at work, that number drops to 25% for boomers.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024
• For a total abs burnout, complete all 18 moves on the list.
  — Jordan Galloway, Women's Health, 25 July 2023
• Shifting away from a state of burnout won’t happen overnight.
  — Jia Rizvi, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
• That can limit the stress and help you to avoid moving from burnout in one career to burnout in the other.
  — Ryan Derousseau, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• Mental health and burnout concerns are at an all-time high.
  — David Nour, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• If funded, the new pay scale would help address the high rates of turnover and burnout among teachers, O’Neal said.
  — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 12 Apr. 2024
• When the stress builds to burnout and self-protective shutting down, job search stalls.
  — Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 2 Nov. 2024
• Many left because of health concerns, to care for children or to cope with burnout.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
• For a great warmup before a chest workout or a killer burnout to finish one, try out the band chest fly.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 7 Dec. 2022
• But the sterling work ethic that paved the way for First Aid Kit’s career also formed a deep rut of burnout.
  — Victoria Wasylak, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
• For adults, it’s become common to name the things that make women more likely to face burnout and stress.
  — Jessica Bennett, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023

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burn out

2 of 2 verb

• Excess timber comes out of a forest in two ways—it gets carried out or burned out.
  — Tom McClintock, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2018
• The rate is at levels that people burn out and are treated as disposable.
  — Chavie Lieber, Vox, 14 Dec. 2018
• Of course, even veteran home cooks like Kinnaird sometimes get burnt out.
  — Marygrace Taylor, Good Housekeeping, 15 Oct. 2018
• Professional gamers, barely past their teens, burn out even faster than athletes.
  — Arijeta Lajka, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2018
• More than five years into their careers, BTS note how this can be when an artist burns out.
  — Jeff Benjamin, Teen Vogue, 20 Nov. 2018
• Baseball history is riddled with meteors that streaked across the sky and burnt out.
  — Larry Stone, The Seattle Times, 12 Apr. 2019
• Related article Teens are feeling pressured and burned out.
  — Kara Alaimo, CNN, 21 Nov. 2024
• Denise Truscello Dion's incomparable voice and record-breaking career has a flame that will not burn out.
  — Maya Allen, Marie Claire, 2 Apr. 2019
• Shoppers, burned out from years of higher prices due to post-pandemic inflation, are comparing more often and waiting to find the best possible deals.
  — Jaewon Kang, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2024
• Impatient brands constantly opt to toss one name for another, and this game of designer musical chairs has talent proclaiming they are burned out.
  — Chavie Lieber, Vox, 27 Dec. 2018
• These trips provide an opportunity to disconnect from technology and be present in the moment, especially for those feeling burnt out.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2024
• While being an informed citizen who's up to date on the race and the candidates' stances and plans is admirable, there is such a thing as burning out on political news when the election is so emotional and heated.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
• Each spreads through a population according to its peculiar viral dynamics — some ricochet through a population and then burn out, while others come and go with the seasons.
  — Bijan Stephen, The Verge, 26 Oct. 2018
• Video showed burned out trucks in the village of Oktyabr’skoe, Kursk.
  — Tim Lister, CNN, 17 Aug. 2024
• The top of the fuselage burned out and the plane tipped over on its side during the fire.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2020
• Their scrawl rushed across the page, as if the words were burning out of them.
  — Douglas Stuart, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
• While the body enjoys the day’s languor, the mind must not burn out.
  — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 4 July 2022
• Many thought Bridges was burnt out by the end of last season.
  — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 25 June 2024
• So at the very top of this list is don't burn out your battery.
  — USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2022
• Do not let this fairy-tale view of the world burn out with age, my dear Pisces moon!
  — Glamour, 31 May 2022
• Fire can be seen still burning, while much of the area is burned out.
  — Hallie Jackson, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2023
• White dwarf stars are the burnt out cores left behind when a star like the Sun dies.
  — Fox News, 18 Mar. 2020
• Once the responders reached the car, the fire had started to burn out.
  — oregonlive, 26 Mar. 2021
• Once people leave the beach, the flames are left to burn out by themselves.
  — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 17 May 2024
• If the staff burns out, there is a long list of replacements.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• No one took Shor’s bet, and some asked for a third option: that the sun would burn out first.
  — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2022
• But workers do say that they are burnt out, they are stressed.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
• And officials say the flames won't burn out any time soon.
  — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 12 Sep. 2020
• Witnesses observed 18 cars that had been burned out in the incident.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
• Plus, the managers who survive a layoff often take over more responsibilities of the ones who leave, which could drive them to burn out and quit on their own.
  — Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 20 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024