How to Use maternity leave in a Sentence

maternity leave

noun

• Her boss is back from maternity leave, and the two of them are now working as a team at Human Rights Watch.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 17 Aug. 2023
• Wolf Blitzer will anchor the 11am hour in the interim while Pam is on maternity leave.
  — Lachlan Cartwright, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Feb. 2024
• That day will have to be in the distance, though, as Barrett begins her maternity leave.
  — Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 3 Feb. 2024
• Thein was on maternity leave with her second child when Musk made his offer to buy Twitter.
  — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
• As her maternity leave came to an end, Albright got a call to join Walmart's apparel team in the Big Apple.
  — April Wallace, Arkansas Online, 5 Mar. 2023
• The first time was right after giving birth to her son – Jamie was working a job with no maternity leave policy.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 2 Apr. 2024
• Those tipped for the top job include Kate Forbes, the 32-year-old Scottish finance secretary, who is on maternity leave.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
• Pregnant at the time, the employee struggled to get her maternity leave and was fired when returning from her leave.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
• She did not get paid vacation time or maternity leave or a wardrobe budget.
  — Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 4 Apr. 2023
• During her maternity leave, her character Jess went off to serve jury duty, and Megan Fox had a guest spot on the show as a new roommate.
  — Kaitlin Stevens, Peoplemag, 24 Mar. 2023
• The 'Vanderpump Rules' star opens up about her decision to become a single parent by choice, the future of the show, and maternity leave.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 5 Aug. 2024
• The words maternity leave become a conduit for my meaning.
  — Hazlitt, 31 July 2024
• And once my maternity leave finished, I was offered a promotion and raise.
  — Taylor Murphy, Parents, 24 Oct. 2023
• Skylar Diggins-Smith was not available the whole season due to maternity leave.
  — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 28 Aug. 2023
• By the time Valerie’s maternity leave ended, the trio had visited more than a dozen national parks.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
• The actress speaks on her new hit horror series, going on maternity leave while filming, and doing dope 'Black girl sh-t' as self-care.
  — Essence, 10 Oct. 2024
• Not so much because of maternity leave or childcare duties, Payscale found.
  — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2024
• And in her own company, a woman is taking maternity leave now; her baby is a month old, and Williams coos over photos of her newborn.
  — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 30 Sep. 2024
• But the longer a woman takes for maternity leave, the wider the wage gap between her and her male counterparts, according to a report by The Borgen Project focused on poverty and hunger.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2023
• As one of the earliest Googlers — and the first to take maternity leave — Susan used her position to build a better workplace for everyone.
  — Sean Hollister, The Verge, 10 Aug. 2024
• Yang, who is expecting her second child in April, was the first St. Paul council member to ever go on maternity leave while in office.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 7 Jan. 2024
• The next month, when her maternity leave officially ended, Twitchen said nobody from First Grade got in touch to discuss her return to work.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2024
• Osaka returned from maternity leave in January and is trying to climb her way back up from No. 229.
  — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
• Just over 80 percent of women took maternity leave, down slightly from the previous year.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2023
• Less than one fifth of America’s largest school districts offer maternity leave—but some states are creating new laws around paid parental leave.
  — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2024
• Kilpatrick had read through the contract very carefully and interpreted the terms as entitling her to eight weeks of maternity leave, rather than the four weeks she had been offered.
  — Leila Haghighat, WIRED, 8 Mar. 2023
• When Philo was on maternity leave in 2005, Appiolaza was amongst the design team that took a bow after that year’s fall collection was shown.
  — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2024
• Osaka, who is coming back from maternity leave after giving birth to her first child in July 2023, will face Jelena Ostapenko in the first round.
  — Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 24 Aug. 2024
• And so much for maternity leave—Nutella and her infant may be seen daily, weather permitting, in the Zoo’s summer sloth habitat.
  — Stephanie Gallman Jordan, Southern Living, 23 June 2023
• Today: a graphic designer on maternity leave spends some of her income on a new swimsuit.
  — Refinery29 Australia Team, refinery29.com, 8 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Dec 2024