How to Use layoff in a Sentence

layoff

1 of 2 noun

• The band finally has a new album after a three year layoff.
• More layoffs are expected at the factory later this year.
• The company announced the layoff of several hundred employees.
• This marks the third layoff for 100 Thieves in less than two years.
  — Jay Peters, The Verge, 2 Nov. 2023
• That means more than 400 could face layoffs down the road.
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2024
• The Terps were sharp after a layoff of more than a week.
  — Noah Trister, baltimoresun.com, 21 Dec. 2021
• That was a big race for him off the layoff and love the wins at this distance and track.
  — Ed Derosa, The Courier-Journal, 6 May 2022
• The newsroom’s union staged a one-day walkout in protest of the layoffs.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 30 Jan. 2024
• Some people have been complaining about the length of the layoff for the teams who don’t play in the wild-card round.
  — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• The past years have seen a number of major layoffs at Google.
  — Anna Gordon, TIME, 11 Jan. 2024
• Davenport and Miller agreed the layoff from games wasn't to blame for UC's slow start in the first half.
  — Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 2 Jan. 2022
• These cuts are a part of the broader layoff trend that has emerged in China over the past months.
  — Yoko Kubota, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2022
• The Gators, coming off a one-week layoff, looked timid from the opening tip.
  — Mark Long, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Jan. 2022
• The layoffs are expected to take place on June 29, the filings show.
  — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 1 Apr. 2024
• More layoffs came in 2023 amid the writers and actors guilds’ strikes.
  — Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 16 July 2024
• The companies say the strikes have forced them to impose those layoffs.
  — Tom Krisher, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
• Terms of the deal were not made public, but layoffs were not believed to be part of the arrangement.
  — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2024
• Four games back from their lengthy layoff, the Trojans still were dragging their feet.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2022
• But the layoff didn’t come as a surprise, said Austen, 27, who is trans and uses they/them pronouns.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 29 June 2022
• The major leadership change came on the heels of a massive layoff.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2022
• One key will be whether Colorado is rusty after such a long layoff.
  — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2022
• A lot of these layoffs and firings and foreclosures are ...
  — Katie Drummond, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2025
• Robles, who last pitched May 22, expects his layoff to be short.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2022
• Headlines about mass layoffs at big tech firms and Wall Street banks added to the feeling of economic gloom.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 10 June 2023
• The layoffs come as the company prepares for a transition in CEOs.
  — Anna Gordon, TIME, 19 Jan. 2024
• And the possibility of a long layoff is nothing new to the playoffs.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• Because of the lengthy layoff, Story will need a few minor league games to get his timing back.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2022
• But some experts believe Silicon Valley will be able to ease the pain of tech layoffs to the north.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 15 May 2024
• As such, neither report were expected to fully show the impacts of the Trump administration’s mass layoffs of federal workers.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 11 Mar. 2025
• The Trump administration has floated plans to slash the agency’s workforce in half, through a combination of layoffs, incentives and attrition.
  — Dan Avery, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2025

lay off

2 of 2 verb

• The second month rolled around, and my roommate didn’t have her share of the rent and claimed to have been laid off.
  — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2025
• Nadia Worsley, 35, was laid off twice in the last three years.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2024
• The number of people being laid off is said to be less than 10.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023
• Mendoza knows when to push Severino and when to lay off of him.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 20 July 2024
• Hawkins said the year they got married, each was laid off from their corporate jobs in the same week.
  — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 17 Jan. 2024
• Hamilton was one of many mine workers who was laid off.
  — Karina Atkins, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2024
• Nielsen laid off about 9% of its staff earlier this month.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
• Diaz was among the employees who were laid off in April.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
• In 1932, three years into the Depression, he was laid off.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 22 Apr. 2024
• In July of that year, the mega-dealer laid off 20 percent of its staff to make up for a shortfall in sales.
  — Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 1 Aug. 2024
• Those who worked at the local sawmill and paper mill, two bedrock employers in the area, were laid off in the past year too.
  — Kate Payne and David R. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
• But the group often had to lay off its workers when funding from the state and other sources was cut off.
  — Dan Petrella, chicagotribune.com, 1 Nov. 2021
• Then in May 2021, he was laid off from his job and was subsequently bored.
  — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
• Betts worked a full count, laying off a low slider and high fastball with two strikes.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• And that could prompt more companies to lay off workers and spark a mild downturn.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
• If the show can’t go on, some 100 Bay Area actors and crew members will lose work, and the company will have to lay off staff.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
• One of my clients had worked in the finance industry for over 15 years when she was abruptly laid off.
  — Sherri Thomas, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
• The Swedish battery maker laid off 1,600 people two months ago.
  — Byandrew Nusca, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2024
• As a result, more money flowed to shops that weren’t planning on laying off anyone in the first place.
  — Matthew Desmond, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023
• He was forced to lay off 20 of his 39 employees and reduce his business hours.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 25 Jan. 2022
• The firm also announced plans to lay off about 20% of its U.S. staff, a sign of further disruption.
  — Francesca Fontana, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
• Solar companies say they’ve been shoved to the edge of a cliff, forcing them to lay off workers or even shut down.
  — Julie Cart, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
• The club laid off roughly 250 employees over the summer.
  — Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 28 Oct. 2024
• Restaurants in Burr Ridge have been hit hard with the virus as many had to close their dining areas and, therefore, lay off staff.
  — Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2022
• Since then, the company has stopped production, laid off workers and slashed the Ocean’s prices.
  — Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024
• In her late 30s, when Robbins was pregnant with her third child, her husband, Chris, was laid off from his tech job.
  — Catherine Pearson, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
• Meta declined to share how many employees were laid off.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024
• They were forced to lay off everyone who was not a full-time, year-round employee.
  — Shondiin Silversmith, The Arizona Republic, 12 June 2021
• In recent weeks, many holdover digital service workers have resigned or been laid off, and only a small group of a few dozen federal technologists remain.
  — Christopher Bing, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2025
• Therefore the options are either make real spending reductions, which might mean laying off workers and closing schools, or emulate the state’s gimmickry and hope the problems solve themselves.
  — Dan Walters, Orange County Register, 13 Mar. 2025