How to Use put (someone) out of work in a Sentence

put (someone) out of work

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• Hotels and restaurants have closed and tour guides have been put out of work.
  — Adam Rasgon, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2021
• Many of the millions of people whom the pandemic put out of work are strapped for cash.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
• Still, for those put out of work by a downturn, the effects would be severe.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 21 Dec. 2022
• But there have been some signs of hope for the hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans put out of work this year.
  — Kavita Kumar, Star Tribune, 7 Aug. 2020
• Her husband, who was employed elsewhere, also was put out of work at the time.
  — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 31 Dec. 2020
• The artists put out of work today will be replaced by many more in years to come, enabled by exploitation of this new tool.
  — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 5 June 2023
• Ohio is launching a new program to help those put out of work by the coronavirus pandemic.
  — Jackie Borchardt, The Enquirer, 15 Sep. 2020
• More than eight million people were put out of work during the Great Recession.
  — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2023
• Some proceeds went to Live Nation’s Crew Nation fund to help tour workers put out of work by the pandemic.
  — Gary Graff, cleveland, 10 Aug. 2021
• And as tens of millions of Americans were put out of work this year, losing my job again felt imminent.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 28 Dec. 2020
• The economy collapsed, millions were put out of work, and the police killing of an unarmed Black man touched off months of street demonstrations.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2020
• The number of Americans who would have been put out of work, according to President Joe Biden, if the rail strike had been allowed to proceed.
  — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2022
• Since the pandemic spread in March, millions of people in the U.S. have been put out of work as businesses large and small were forced to comply with statewide lockdown safety measures.
  — Dominick Mastrangelo, Washington Examiner, 15 June 2020
• The city’s $75 million job training program — aimed at San Antonians put out of work because of the pandemic — has gotten off to a slow start.
  — Joshua Fechter, San Antonio Express-News, 23 June 2021
• Those who have been put out of work during the coronavirus are eligible for an additional $600 a week in unemployment insurance under a program that is set to expire at the end of the month.
  — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 July 2020
• For one, Nirenberg’s camp was preoccupied last fall with passing the mayor’s $154 million sales tax plan to help pay for job training and college degrees for San Antonio residents put out of work by the pandemic.
  — Joshua Fechter, ExpressNews.com, 15 Jan. 2021
• At the time, the state’s Employment Development Department was being swamped with millions of unemployment claims from people put out of work by the coronavirus pandemic.
  — Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com, 10 Jan. 2021
• Nearly 77 percent of voters agreed to help San Antonians put out of work by the pandemic — the biggest electoral victory of Nirenberg’s career and a sign, his allies say, that the mayor has broadened his support amid the pandemic.
  — Joshua Fechter, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Jan. 2021
• This amount was arrived at by estimating the total wages an average person nationally would lose if they were put out of work, and attempting to replace those wages through a combination of regular unemployment and the extra $600.
  — Rich Exner, cleveland, 4 June 2020
• The president wants to continue paying a supplemental federal unemployment benefit for millions of Americans put out of work during the outbreak.
  — Jonathan Lemire, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Aug. 2020
• Rather than dismiss fears of these threats, authorities need to empathize with those who are struggling and develop innovative solutions, particularly for people put out of work by the decline of manufacturing and the rise of artificial intelligence.
  — Michele Gelfand, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2024