How to Use vocation in a Sentence

vocation

noun

• This isn't just a job for me; it's a vocation.
• He never felt a real sense of vocation.
• I'm a carpenter by vocation, but my hobby is painting.
• The Dakar is a nomadic race whose vocation is to explore the deserts in the world.
  — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2020
• There is work done for work's sake... and then there is vocation.
  — Karen Bliss, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2019
• Since the protests began, she's felt called to a new vocation.
  — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 30 June 2020
• The house is owned by Dodin (Benoît Magimel), whose vocation is that of a gourmet.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• Getting ready for the next storm is now a year-round vocation.
  — Ron Hurtibise, Sun-Sentinel.com, 22 Dec. 2017
• For a man who relied on his brain and his body for his life’s vocation, the news couldn’t have been worse.
  — Mary Ann Gwinn, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• Although in the past, many saw the food business and farming as a vocation, this is no longer the case.
  — Aidan Connolly, Forbes, 6 June 2022
• Although in the past, many saw the food business and farming as a vocation, this is no longer the case.
  — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 9 Oct. 2023
• Now the sport has become a vocation and that’s how athletes look at it.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 16 Oct. 2018
• Toward the end of his life, the elder Mr. Bartunek warmed to his son’s vocation.
  — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2021
• If pursued in the right way, your vocation could add years of healthy living.
  — Matt Fuchs, Fortune Well, 14 May 2023
• Those who professed a vocation for the work were the least troubled, even in the initial stages of their career.
  — Will Self, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• An aspirant also asks donors for their prayers and keeps them up-to-date on the progress of their vocation.
  — WSJ, 26 Mar. 2022
• For David, acting seems to be both vocation and lark, and his gales of laughter blow back the curtain between the two.
  — M.d. Rodrigues, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
• The work is hard, the pay is low, and finding time and space to work is often difficult, say those who know the challenges of the vocation.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
• But his real calling - his vocation - was the search for truth.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2021
• But his real calling — his vocation — was the search for truth.
  — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2021
• On Beijing bridges big and small, a new vocation was born: bridge watchers.
  — Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 11 June 2024
• In place of what she’s given up, her illness has become a kind of vocation.
  — Rachael Bedard, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2024
• Fine art was for white people who came from a different class—one in which art could be a vocation.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
• The abbey closed in 2017 due to an aging population and lack of new vocations.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 July 2023
• There is no such thing as a part-time artist, even if some must work at other vocations in order to survive.
  — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 9 Sep. 2023
• The vocation, film-wise, came from watching Steven Spielberg work.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 1 Feb. 2022
• There are these expositions in your youth that open you up to this idea of, like, this is what my vocation is going to be.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2023
• The spieler is his brother, Booth, whose vocation seems to be shoplifting.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2022
• One of the great gifts of being an artist — or an arts writer — is looking at the world through the fascinating prism of your vocation.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
• Crowley had a degree in library science but saw his job as a police officer as his true vocation.
  — Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024