How to Use quota in a Sentence

quota

noun

• The company has imposed quotas on hiring.
• The agency imposes strict fishing quotas.
• The department set new sales quotas in January.
• He lost his driver's license because he exceeded the quota of traffic violations.
• The quota for fin whales was dropped to zero in 1976, the study says.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 7 July 2022
• My cuteness quota has been filled for the day, that's for sure.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 20 July 2023
• Xu said 86% of the quota handed down last year has been used.
  — Bloomberg.com, 12 Apr. 2022
• Maine fishermen are about 80% of the way through this year’s elver quota.
  — Patrick Whittle, Fortune, 2 May 2024
• Once retrieved, souls can be placed in the Netherworld Portal to meet the soul quota.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
• Just deleting all the old videos from my Google Drive cleared 9 GB of space, about three-fifths of the free storage quota.
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
• The quota was hit 16 days before the season’s scheduled end of Dec. 12.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Nov. 2021
• At his last factory, the daily quota went up to 36 RVs a day.
  — Binghui Huang, IndyStar, 19 Oct. 2022
• Many put the cap on Denver’s number of wins in the series at one, and the Nuggets have already hit that quota.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 25 Apr. 2022
• That comes at the expense of African members who were asked to give up part of their unused quota.
  — Ben Bartenstein, Bloomberg.com, 4 June 2023
• The board could also extend the current quota for three years.
  — Patrick Whittle, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2024
• As of the most recent quota count, US Biathlon should be able to send four men and four women to Beijing.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Dec. 2021
• The trade deal granted goods made in Britain tariff- and quota-free access to the European Union.
  — New York Times, 29 Dec. 2021
• China’s rare earths quota system has changed over the years.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 22 Feb. 2022
• The can has just begun to spit them into the bar, but the ocean is still full of salmon and the quota was only half-done by last Sunday.
  — oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2022
• Bowe ended up in the event anyway because the U.S. received a third quota spot.
  — Noah Trister, ajc, 12 Feb. 2022
• The committee elected the status quo for the hunting quota in the northern herd.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 May 2023
• For them, the quota issue was merely the tip of an iceberg, a symbol of a system stacked against them.
  — Ali Riaz, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2024
• Talibés are forced to beg for money each day, and if their quota is not filled, they can be beaten and starved.
  — Guy Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. 2022
• Most times, the tests run by QA engineers are completed as if there is a quota of tests to be met.
  — Margarita Simonova, Forbes, 10 June 2022
• The season runs from April until June, or until quotas are met.
  — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 17 Apr. 2023
• Prices of grain in both countries have dropped since the EU scrapped duties and quotas on Ukrainian grain imports last year.
  — Thomas Grove, wsj.com, 16 Apr. 2023
• The rule allows plug-in hybrids with at least 50 miles of all-electric range to account for up to 20% of each model year’s quota.
  — Victoria Stavish, Baltimore Sun, 18 Sep. 2023
• The mission becomes about more than sales quotas, launch dates or paychecks.
  — Jeffrey Russell, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
• Tribalism reached new levels with a pandemic of DEI quotas and set-asides.
  — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 10 Nov. 2024
• Taiwan operates a quota on the number of films from China that can play in its cinemas.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 24 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024