How to Use short-staffed in a Sentence

short-staffed

adjective
  • But on this day, a worker went home sick, leaving her unit short-staffed.
    Molly Parker, ProPublica, 11 July 2023
  • The rest of the county shelters are similarly short-staffed, the report said.
    Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2023
  • On Sunday, the weather and being short-staffed kept him from attending the game in Dallas.
    Jessica Rodriguez, Journal Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Its ministries and armed forces were short-staffed and dysfunctional.
    C. Christine Fair, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2015
  • Grossberg said Bartiromo’s show was so short-staffed that she was forced to do multiple jobs at once.
    Sarah Fitzpatrick, NBC News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • According to Duke, the current team of nurses was short-staffed on nearly every shift.
    Jennifer Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Since the pandemic, the court has struggled with a backlog of cases, a backlog that became even more challenging due to the court being short-staffed on the bench.
    Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
  • But in bureaucratic or short-staffed environments, even six months to a year of notice may not be long enough.
    Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Hernandez was news editor of the school paper at the time, but was also left with much of the reporting and writing work due to a short-staffed newsroom.
    Sanjana Ganguly-Fitzgerald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2023
  • At the same time, the department is operating short-staffed — down 81 health inspectors.
    Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Golden State faced another one of those short-staffed teams in the Kaseya Center, as the hosting Heat were missing five rotation players.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Any potential exit of the number '7' would be disastrous for Xavi Hernandez's team, however, and could leave it short-staffed on the wings.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • They also were placed on restricted duties, leaving the hospital even more short-staffed in patient care.
    Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Over the summer, the 911 center was chronically short-staffed, according to OUC’s data.
    Emily Davies, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
  • For example, a doctor at Olive View occasionally treats inmates at the short-staffed jails.
    Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
  • Carmack-Altwies said her office is short-staffed, and will have only 15 of its 24 prosecutor positions filled by the end of April.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Other candidates have pointed to gaps from a lack of school resource deputies to short-staffed patrols in Osceola’s west side tourist corridor.
    Cristóbal Reyes, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2024
  • His new paper takes that a step farther: The thrust is that for short-staffed or under-skilled companies, existing part-time workers who want to log more hours could be better utilized.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 27 July 2023
  • Interviews with 13 current city staffers suggest that while the situation has improved this year at some agencies, others are still short-staffed, and triage remains the norm.
    Emma G. Fitzsimmons, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The travel industry remains short-staffed, and particularly for the back-office jobs that require a lot of training.
    Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Interstate Navigation was short-staffed, and did not have the necessary crew and security to properly staff the ferry and deal with the crowds, the suit alleges.
    Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Currently, mis-triage (inappropriate care) happens nearly a third of the time—often when the emergency room is backed up or short-staffed.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 7 June 2024
  • Allen said the city’s towing and booting authority team was severely short-staffed until last year, when the budget increased for that program.
    Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
  • In this scenario, the thinking goes, the firm would be worse off with a host of disgruntled employees rather than being perpetually short-staffed as a result of mass layoffs.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Last summer, the company received far fewer applications and brought on just 19 students, leaving it short-staffed by 5%.
    Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
  • Tourists should know that recovery remains the island’s priority and expect that some places could be short-staffed and some attractions may be closed, Kehaulani Watson said.
    Julia Wick, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Sep. 2023
  • As the health care workforce continues to be short-staffed, state legislators are considering a bill to increase the minimum wage across the industry.
    Lauren J. Mapp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2023
  • But these jobs — which are grueling and poorly paid, and thus chronically short-staffed — are exactly where many migrant children are ending up.
    Hannah Dreier, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Related: Celtics blow out Bucks in impressive fashion Boston was already somewhat short-staffed.
    Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Carmack-Altwies had said that her office was too overwhelmed with other casework, and was too short-staffed, to handle it without outside assistance.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 20 Apr. 2023

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