How to Use quit in a Sentence

quit

1 of 2 verb

• She quit smoking years ago.
• She hates her job and she's thinking about quitting.
• I wish you would quit bothering her.
• Many workers are quitting because of poor pay.
• He quit teaching after five years.
• We're going to quit for the day. It's too hot to keep working.
• She decided to quit show business.
• She quit college after one semester.
• But according to sources at the firm, per the Times, not enough workers have quit since.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 2 Apr. 2024
• Eight of the initial group have quit or asked to be reassigned.
  — Bhopi Dhall and Saurajit Kanungo, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• The couple called it quits in 2004 after three years of dating.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 15 Feb. 2024
• But just one month after getting married, the two called it quits.
  — Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2023
• Nicki Nicole and Peso Pluma have appeared to call it quits.
  — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 13 Feb. 2024
• There were no losers...except those who quit or cheated.
  — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024
• At least two of his employees quit in the past year because of crime in the area, Maupillier said.
  — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
• The number doubled for those who intended to quit but hadn’t yet done so.
  — Berry Wang, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
• Yet few families or places can quit the car just like that; such a drastic move would bring life to a halt.
  — Curbed, 29 Nov. 2023
• However, the couple called it quits in 2012, and Heard restored her name.
  — Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2023
• The move was first announced last year by Health Canada and is aimed at helping people quit the habit.
  — Rob Gillies, ajc, 1 June 2023
• Lofton quit working in her late 40s, spent much of her time drinking and moved in with her father, Houston said.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 3 June 2023
• That number dwindled to nine after three wrestlers quit.
  — Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
• Changes could include quitting, not taking a new job, changing hours and more.
  — Megan Banta, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
• An audit last year found that nearly half of new DCS workers quit within their first year.
  — Paige Pfleger, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2023
• Irwin is the second head of trust and safety to quit Twitter during Musk’s tenure.
  — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 2 June 2023
• New doctor Cameron quits after things get awkward with Mel.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 13 May 2023
• For example, if new hires are quitting at a faster rate in their first three months on the job, your onboarding process may need work.
  — Amber Burton, Fortune, 6 June 2023
• Ron Howard had a mind to quit when producers considered changing the name of Happy Days.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 15 Jan. 2024
• Kristin Cagney quit her finance job to follow her thirst for adventure.
  — Deanna Taylor, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• But my partner was once a heavy, longtime smoker (who has since quit and now takes excellent care of his health).
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 14 June 2023
• And fewer people are quitting jobs in search of higher pay elsewhere.
  — Christopher Rugaber, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Sep. 2023

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quit

2 of 2 noun

• Have her sign and then file a quit-claim deed to get her name off the deed.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 11 Nov. 2021
• And even when the show is quiet, there’s no quit in it.
  — James Hebert, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2019
• The Knights took the 13-0 lead into the half, but the Patriots had no quit.
  — Randy McRoberts, Baltimore Sun, 16 Sep. 2022
• The Frogs didn’t get the job done, but one thing is clear: there’s no quit in Duggan.
  — Dallas News, 3 Dec. 2022
• As Zac Taylor likes to say, there is no quit in this team.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 4 Nov. 2019
• The nationwide quit rate increased to 2.9% of the workforce.
  — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2021
• There is no quit in these Sun Devils, which has to please fans.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2022
• The quit rate represents a vast jump over the 1.6% seen during the height of the pandemic.
  — cleveland, 22 June 2021
• That's far higher than the quit rate across all sectors, which was 2.7% in June.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 25 Aug. 2021
• Dan Campbell's charges showed there'd be no quit in them ...
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2021
• To be sure, the data represents just one month and the quit rate in each state could change from month to month.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2021
• Overall, the quit rate for all non-farm jobs fell slightly from the month before.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 30 Aug. 2022
• The school’s nurse quit in June because the school hadn’t paid her since December.
  — Josh Verges, Twin Cities, 10 July 2019
• Even when Notre Dame took a 28-14 lead in the third quarter, there was no quit on Louisville's sideline.
  — Gentry Estes, The Courier-Journal, 2 Sep. 2019
• Early last spring, one of the two teachers for Landon’s class of 20 quit.
  — USA Today, 9 Feb. 2020
• The outside counsel who was leading the case quit and the CDAA has no funds to replace him.
  — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 13 Jan. 2021
• Don’t allow the high national quit rate to keep you up at night.
  — Serenity Gibbons, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• Some have suggested that the Wildcats quit late in the second half.
  — Michael Lev, azcentral, 4 Nov. 2019
• The recent quit rate is also down from the 2.9% recorded in August.
  — Cleveland Business Journal, cleveland, 9 Dec. 2021
• There’s no quit in Aaron Filips and the Highland offense.
  — cleveland, 28 Aug. 2021
• But such worker churn has since fallen from its fever pitch—the quits rate has dropped back to its 2019 rate.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2023
• What are your reasonable hopes? .500 ball, and no quit.
  — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 29 Mar. 2023
• The states are broken out in two categories: those with the highest quit rates, and those with the lowest.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 25 May 2022
• The last female assistant coach quit in 2016 because of poor pay, the suit says.
  — John Wawrow, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2019
• Sroufe, who apparently does not know the meaning of the word quit, once again asked the judge to set aside the verdict.
  — Jack Greiner, Cincinnati.com, 9 July 2019
• The mother signed a quit claim to give her son the house anyway and died shortly afterward.
  — Liz Weston, Dallas News, 4 Apr. 2020
• The quit rates, and the number of quits, increased month-over-month in 14 states, including Kentucky.
  — Ben Tobin, The Courier-Journal, 26 Oct. 2021
• Dismissals of star teammates were the least likely to inspire more quits.
  — Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 5 May 2023
• As Bunker points out, quits and hires track each other closely.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• There's no worse way to go out — well, other than a voluntary quit.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 17 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024