How to Use referral in a Sentence
referral
noun-
The counselor may make a referral to help the child, and perhaps even the aunt.
— Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024 -
The request for a bed has to be made through a referral.
— Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2021 -
If that's the case, paying them for a referral might even hurt.
— Expert Panel®, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021 -
Users can refer up to 20 friends and get $50 for each referral.
— Ian Firstenberg, Chicago Tribune, 26 Feb. 2023 -
The vote by the full House is the last step before sending the referral to the Justice department.
— Zachary Cohen and Ryan Nobles, CNN, 13 Dec. 2021 -
Such referrals to the Treasury are required once a loan is 120 days past due, the agency said.
— Lewis Kamb, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024 -
Your credentials and referrals may get you on the shortlist for that new job.
— Anne Marie Chaker, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2024 -
That might be the right service to offer in exchange for referrals.
— Fadi Agour, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023 -
Last school year, there were three arrests and 39 referrals.
— Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 27 June 2023 -
Get referrals from friends and use third-party sources to learn more about what people think of the company.
— Idalia Garcia, Car and Driver, 9 June 2023 -
Now called the Secure the Border Act, the measure is one of 11 legislative referrals on the ballot this year.
— Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024 -
In cases where your referral yields a smaller bonus for your friend, the decent thing to do would be to steer them toward the bigger bonus.
— Nerdwallet, The Mercury News, 22 June 2024 -
This year, there is a bumper crop of ballot referrals from state lawmakers — more than 70.
— Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 3 Mar. 2024 -
Once passed, the contempt referral would then be sent to the Justice Department.
— Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2021 -
The patient received a referral to see an oral surgeon.
— BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2021 -
Then, ask for a referral to one person they are connected to.
— Expert Panel®, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024 -
Companies don’t have to work as hard to sway referrals since word of mouth is persuasive enough.
— John Hall, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023 -
Beefing up your referral and loyalty programs is the best place to start.
— Expert Panel®, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021 -
In the past, a simple request/referral from a health care provider was all that was needed for a patient to get therapy.
— David Myles, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024 -
But a follow up asking for U.S. comment was met with a no comment and a referral to the United Nations spokesman.
— Ben Evansky, Fox News, 23 Nov. 2021 -
If that’s not happening, bring it up yourself and ask for referrals.
— Claire Sibonney, TIME, 4 June 2024 -
But the timing of any vote by the full House, and the willingness of the U.S. attorney’s office to act on the referral, remain uncertain.
— Colleen Long, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2024 -
Meadows is the second official to face such a referral from the panel.
— Andrew Torgan, CNN, 15 Dec. 2021 -
At the same time, a May survey by Alignable, a small-business referral network, found that 41 percent of U.S. restaurants couldn’t pay rent that month.
— Richard Morgan, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022 -
In one referral, Sophia’s mother is accused of striking and choking the child and trying to muffle her screams.
— Salvador Hernandezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022 -
Further, since the election is over, there is no way to correct the error, which is another reason for the referral, Chan said.
— Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 31 Dec. 2022 -
When that was discovered, there was a referral to the Department of Justice.
— CBS News, 11 Feb. 2024 -
Afterward, the therapist walked Yang out to his waiting father, who had asked for a list of referrals in New York.
— Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024 -
Create user referral programs where users are incentivized to share the product.
— Forrester, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024 -
Under the rules, if no action has taken place, a summary of the referral is publicly released if there’s no resolution one year after the referral.
— Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2025
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