How to Use hire in a Sentence

hire

1 of 2 noun

• The company has a few new hires.
• The hire of a car and other equipment will of course incur a supplementary charge.
• On the one hand, these hires already know the business and culture.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2024
• The hire paid off for the film’s cast, especially Ryan Gosling.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 19 July 2023
• In that way, this hire has a lot in common with Kliff Kingsbury.
  — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 14 Feb. 2023
• Some of those seeking to escape hire guides to lead them through the mountains.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
• On average, a new hire takes 291 days to process, the audit found.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2023
• There are sun loungers for hire, but this is the kind of place to buy your own chair at the supermarket and haul it across the sand.
  — Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2023
• But she’s been a punk, a headbanger, a grunge brat, a club kid, an R&B girl-for-hire, and a law-breaking lover of 4 Non Blondes.
  — Kate Sullivan, SPIN, 18 Feb. 2023
• Hugh Freeze’s presence on the trail has been apparent since his hire.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 10 Apr. 2023
• Some people raved about the hire to replace Monty Williams in Phoenix, while others were not fans of the move.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 2 June 2023
• The former Kent State coach is plenty sharp enough to handle the load and was one of the smartest hires of the offseason, anywhere.
  — Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2023
• Levin had been a steady influence at Roku, and was the company’s first ad-sales hire.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 8 Nov. 2023
• The Glendale battery park is expected to get new hires first.
  — Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 31 July 2023
• This hire brings the correction staff to three officers.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 May 2023
• Everything else is just kind of ‘actor for hire,’ but this is my homage to my people.
  — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
• The short-term hires may never set foot on set, a crucial step to becoming a showrunner.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2023
• One of his new hires — a middle school English teacher from Nevada — had backed out.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• Schedules were even more grueling for the newest hires.
  — Justin Mayo Taylor Glascock, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• Recent hires who make considerably less than the top wage will see their pay nearly double over the life of the contract, the union said.
  — Noam Scheiber, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
• The first complaint about him came about eight months later, while Kriv was still a probationary hire.
  — Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, 3 June 2023
• Managers would like the ability to spare more recent hires from the cuts and instead pull from a pool of more veteran staffers.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
• Dalio offered a response for his newest hire: The problem was clearly Culp.
  — Rob Copeland, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2023
• Going forward, new hires will be paid eighty-five per cent of the top rate after two years, and a hundred per cent after three years.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2023
• And this made Ladd a star instantly as a sympathetic killer for hire.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 9 May 2023
• Padres adviser Mike Shildt, though, is the type of hire that makes immediate sense.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2023
• Employers in any sector aren’t eager to invest in a hire who sees them as a fallback.
  — Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• That’s the reason why all of our work is going to be in front of the paywall, and why one of our first hires was a community editor.
  — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
• Montgomery advised Cal on the Madsen hire and, obviously, got that one right.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
• The other new hire, Managing Director John Russick, is white.
  — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2024

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hire

2 of 2 verb

• We hired someone to clean the office once a week.
• The company isn't hiring right now.
• She had very little office experience, so the company wouldn't hire her.
• Marshall was the first call Gottlieb made when she was hired in 2021.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023
• In August 2022, Jones says he was hired to work on Combs’ new album and produced nine songs for the project.
  — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2024
• But Jamie had no plans to go down without a fight and didn't hesitate to hire his own killer to take out Beth.
  — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 17 June 2023
• The Prime Video film sees three improv actors hired by the police to help stage low-level stings.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2024
• Former assistant Chad Forcier was hired in Utah to work for the Jazz.
  — Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 28 June 2023
• If there’s a dispute with the institution, the tribe must hire a lawyer, and the costs can quickly increase.
  — Nicole Santa Cruz, ProPublica, 20 Oct. 2023
• In some cases, they were hired to work for other agencies.
  — Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024
• The board will in all likelihood hire a headhunting firm to conduct a broad search.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• Tipps is the second athletic director the Bentonville board has hired in the past month.
  — Al Gaspeny, Arkansas Online, 1 June 2023
• Mason Steinberg, who was hired in the role last year, is exiting.
  — Michaela Zee, Variety, 23 Oct. 2023
• Within weeks, Weinberg became worried about the car and hired an expert to inspect it at the Siegles’ shop.
  — Terry Spencer, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2023
• The campaign has now opened lots of field offices and hiring staff, while Trump's ground game is lagging in key states, like Arizona.
  — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024
• Carr was among a slew of Spartans who entered the transfer portal last month, a few days after new head coach Jonathan Smith was hired.
  — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 8 Jan. 2024
• That game was coached by Brian Kelly who was hired from Central Michigan.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 9 Jan. 2024
• With the grant money, the goal is to hire two more social workers and have two more officers assigned to the teams by early 2024, Visser-Pardee said.
  — Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2023
• Life took a turn for the delicious when he was hired by a Jewish summer camp and learned that kitchen duty was preferable to cleaning pools.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
• Nearly twenty-five years later, as the statute of limitations on the case nears, Mette's mother hires Veum.
  — David Nikel, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• Easing hiring and wage growth could be a sign that the economy is starting to slow after a red-hot summer.
  — David Harrison, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2023
• The council dismissed the mayor’s protest and voted unanimously to hire Brown.
  — Joseph D. Bryant | [e-mail], al, 6 June 2023
• Visser, hired to catch a cheating spouse and her lover in the act, ends up double-crossing and killing his client, emptying his safe and framing the wife for the murder.
  — Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2024
• Winners are also advised to hire a team of advisers when claiming such a large sum.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 21 July 2023
• The second phase requires that a minimum of 40 percent of the labor is locally hired.
  — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2023
• The city of San Diego also recently hired the firm, based in Roseville outside Sacramento, to find its next fire chief.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• In 2024, hiring will be more modest, but rising real wage growth will matter more.
  — Bycarl Nassib, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2023
• One of those benefits came in hiring a UX designer, says Switzer.
  — WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023
• At the time, Mistral hadn’t developed its first product and had only just started hiring staff.
  — Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 12 Apr. 2024
• Companies were struggling to hire enough workers to keep up with customer orders.
  — Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024