How to Use short-staffed in a Sentence

short-staffed

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• 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
• That will be a challenge in a short-staffed department, because officers will have to come off patrol to attend training sessions.
  — Kyle Stokes, Axios, 16 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Imagine what would happen if nursing homes, already desperately short-staffed, lost nearly one in five of their remaining workers?
  — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024