How to Use furlough in a Sentence

furlough

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  • Each employee will have a one-day furlough every month.
  • She’s secured him a four-hour furlough to film the episode.
    — Christian Lewis, Variety, 25 Apr. 2023
  • By the end of that call, all 900 of Bitwise’s employees had lost their jobs in what the CEOs called a furlough.
    — Jaimie Ding, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
  • The Reds announced furloughs for the staff beginning June 1.
    — John Fay, Cincinnati.com, 14 May 2020
  • The latest change is a major tax break on 2020 tax returns for those who lost their job last year or faced a furlough.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Then there are services like the National Park Service, which will have to close parks and furlough rangers.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Automakers say the furloughs and layoffs are a result of the UAW strike, which has now entered its third week.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 3 Oct. 2023
  • After her latest furlough, Monday felt a little like the first day of school.
    — James Walsh, Star Tribune, 12 Jan. 2021
  • That month he was released on medical furlough to the Swiss Embassy in Tehran.
    — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Any claim submitted with dates of service before the furlough will be paid.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Employers and workers should both keep a close eye on the language in their insurance policies in the event of a furlough.
    — Alex Janin, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2020
  • But if a closure goes longer, more than half of IRS employees would face furloughs at the height of tax filing season.
    — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Siamak Namazi was given a 10-day furlough to see his father before the 85-year-old returned to the US.
    — Christiane Amanpour, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
  • In March, White was initially released on a medical furlough, but he was still ordered to stay in Iran at the time.
    — Rich Edson, Fox News, 5 June 2020
  • That's also forced layoffs and furloughs among the more than 1 million people working for tribes, many of them in casinos.
    — Author: Nicholas K. Geranios, Anchorage Daily News, 10 May 2020
  • But response times for people with issues could be delayed due to furloughs.
    — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The younger Namazi was granted a furlough to see his father at this time but then forced to return to Evin prison a little more than a week later.
    — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • On the same day as the judge’s ruling, the A’s announced widespread staff furloughs and salary cuts — more fallout from MLB’s coronavirus shutdown.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 27 May 2020
  • There were still 18 positions on full or partial furlough as of Wednesday, Hall said.
    — Rachel Herzog, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2020
  • The Cleveland man, 37, was taken to the hospital and released on a medical furlough.
    — cleveland, 18 Dec. 2020
  • He initially had been released in March on a medical furlough but ordered to stay in Iran.
    — Fox News, 9 June 2020
  • Her father's other options were to take an unpaid furlough or quit.
    — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 18 June 2020
  • Maybe The Flash will reckon with all these complexities, or send him off into the multiverse for a decades-long furlough.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The length of furlough varies, but federal workers have been out of work following the shutdown procedures for as long as 34 days.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Meanwhile, the furlough prompted her husband, 30, to reassess his own career.
    — Joanne Lipman, Time, 27 May 2021
  • He was then placed on a highly restrictive medical furlough in Iran in 2018.
    — Camilla Schick, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Siamak Namazi, who has been imprisoned in Tehran’s Evin prison since 2015, was given a one-week furlough to see his father.
    — David S. Cloud, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Early on in the pandemic, workers were faced with millions of furloughs, closures, and layoffs.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 31 May 2023
  • He was recently released from prison on medical furlough due to the coronavirus but was required to stay in the country.
    — Stefan Becket, CBS News, 4 June 2020
  • At the end of September, her furlough turned into a permanent layoff.
    — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2020
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furlough

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  • The company will consider furloughing a small number of workers.
  • The club had to furlough about half of its 900-plus employees.
    — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 2 May 2021
  • Now, the producers must find other ways to pay their staff, or furlough them.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Management did not fire or furlough most of the staff as other companies did in the U.S.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
  • As part of the terms of the first round of federal support, airlines could not furlough or lay off their workers.
    — Colin Lodewick, Fortune, 2 July 2022
  • In the first episode, many of the competing chefs spoke soberly of being forced to close their doors and furlough their staff members last year.
    — Vulture, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Even so, Stubb’s was still forced to furlough all but six people from their staff of 110 part- and full-time employees last year.
    — Bryan C. Parker, Rolling Stone, 1 June 2021
  • Since then, the automakers have furloughed or laid off thousands of non-union workers at plants in five states.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2023
  • He and Rhea were furloughed from their corporate Disney jobs in 2020.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
  • Many attractions in New Orleans have been able to furlough staff and shut their doors to keep costs down and ride out the pandemic, but Audubon can't.
    — Jerry Dicolo | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 5 Sep. 2020
  • Due to the decline in visitors and the subsequent loss in sales, we were forced to furlough 10 of our 17 distillery workers.
    — Michael Langan For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 13 May 2021
  • The company didn’t expect to furlough any workers for now.
    — Sean McLain, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2021
  • To receive a portion of the $15 billion aid, airlines must agree to not furlough workers before Sept. 30.
    — Mina Kaji, ABC News, 10 Mar. 2021
  • With sales down 75%, Mr. Ferrigno, who runs one of the most famous workshops, had to furlough two of his four employees.
    — Pietro Lombardi, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2020
  • The train system may furlough staff to reflect service changes in mid-December.
    — Mallory Moench, SFChronicle.com, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The family still paid her for six months, but eventually had to furlough her as the pandemic dragged on.
    — Jessica Menton, USA Today, 4 June 2021
  • In November, Syracuse Opera canceled the rest of its season and furloughed its staff of one full-time and four part-time employees.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Deprived of those revenue sources, the organization was hobbled, and had to furlough or lay off dozens of staffers.
    — Chris Taylor, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Hitchins was furloughed from her job as a speech therapist, and her husband’s job went fully remote.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Employees who are furloughed would have four hours on Monday to prepare their offices for the shutdown.
    — Kevin Freking, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The company did not furlough or lay off any employees when dining rooms were closed.
    — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 12 Nov. 2020
  • The company was forced to lay off or furlough nearly half of the company’s 2,000 employees because of the shutdown.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The company did not furlough any employees as a result of the pandemic.
    — Patrick Kennedy, Star Tribune, 28 Apr. 2021
  • For airlines, the legislative package brings relief since the industry won’t have to furlough employees at the end of this month.
    — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2021
  • All workers who were furloughed and remained working through the shutdown will get back pay once the government is funded.
    — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Many federal programs and agencies will have to stop funding and their workers will be furloughed.
    — Marley Jay, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Last fall the airline sought pay concessions and threatened to furlough workers, prompting a backlash from unions.
    — Alison Sider, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The absence of a deal also forced American officials to furlough some of the 9,000 Koreans working on U.S. bases for over two months.
    — Andrew Jeong, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2021
  • Employees were told to wait for further instructions on whether they will be furloughed or required to come to work without pay.
    — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2023
  • While essential workers will remain on the job without pay, others will be furloughed.
    — Sarah Beth Hensley, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2023

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