Below you will find example sentences with "laid off". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Laid Off in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: laid
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 28
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 27.8 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "laid off" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 27.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as about getting laid off, amazon recently laid off quite a, workers, people and employees stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with off balls, pull off, turn off and laid down, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with laid off
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Amazon recently laid off quite a large number of workers. (10 words)
I wrote a few years ago about for people recently laid off from people who’d been laid off. (19 words)
After the unprecedented strike began on Friday, Ford laid off 600 workers who assemble cars at a plant in Michigan. (20 words)
It will be vexing if laid off Yukoners have to compete with temporary foreign workers for entry-level jobs in Whitehorse while fly-in-fly-out workers laid off by Victoria Gold got the well-paid jobs with contractors fixing the landslide. (42 words)
Among other factors, Spiro cited the possibility that potential jurors drawn from the San Francisco Bay Area may have been recently laid off at Twitter or may know someone who lost their job after Musk’s takeover. (37 words)
We’re also highlighting companies that hedge against layoffs — instead of laying off one person, for example, two people will take a reduction in hours but neither of them will get laid off. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
After Motley and his coworkers were laid off, the union supported the companies who made a bid to keep the refinery open and hire those who had been laid off.
It will be vexing if laid off Yukoners have to compete with temporary foreign workers for entry-level jobs in Whitehorse while fly-in-fly-out workers laid off by Victoria Gold got the well-paid jobs with contractors fixing the landslide.
I wrote a few years ago about for people recently laid off from people who’d been laid off.
Shade brushed off the attentions of a Grimsby man on the half-way line and charged towards the edge of the box where he laid off to Darcy.
After taking two weeks off of work, unpaid, Del Valle’s supervisor then told her she had been laid off – and would have to reapply for her job.
It's never an easy time for anyone concerned when it comes to laying off someone or for the person being laid off.
Springer, the general manager of Sprago Beverly Hills, said he’s laid off nearly 200 people and only has 12 employees left, working to survive off takeout orders.
We’re also highlighting companies that hedge against layoffs — instead of laying off one person, for example, two people will take a reduction in hours but neither of them will get laid off.
Whether you are laid off, facing a lay-off, concerned about the value of your home, or concerned about meeting your bills, we all watch as the global economy suffers.
But this is just about the best case scenario for a post-media pivot, and she didn’t even have to get laid off from her job to pull it off.
The Green Bank, which has become a model for the world, lost several partnerships, laid off employees, and was forced to spin off some of its programs into a separate nonprofit.
The company laid off 70,000 workers but was able to stave off Socialist unrest by continuing severance pay and its famous social services for workers.
The rescue package came with a few stipulations; The country laid off 1,800 government workers, floated its currency, lifted foreign exchange controls and sold off state assets.
About seven million people in textile and textile-related industries in Pakistan have been laid off due to dwindling exports and the governments failure to end the economic crisis, associations claimed.
After announcing a plan to slash nearly 7,000 jobs, Disney is reportedly instructing managers to propose budget cuts and put together lists of employees to be laid off in the coming weeks.
After the unprecedented strike began on Friday, Ford laid off 600 workers who assemble cars at a plant in Michigan.
A Google spokesperson confirmed the Chocolate Factory laid off some employees belonging to a team in charge of consumer complaints, though declined to give an exact number.
A level two software engineer and a partner engineer from Slack posted on social media network LinkesIn about getting laid off.
Amazon recently laid off quite a large number of workers.
Among other factors, Spiro cited the possibility that potential jurors drawn from the San Francisco Bay Area may have been recently laid off at Twitter or may know someone who lost their job after Musk’s takeover.