How to Use hire in a Sentence

hire

1 of 2 noun
Definition of hirenext
Synonyms for hirenext
  • The company has a few new hires.
  • The hire of a car and other equipment will of course incur a supplementary charge.
  • On the one hand, these hires already know the business and culture.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The hire paid off for the film’s cast, especially Ryan Gosling.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 19 July 2023
  • In that way, this hire has a lot in common with Kliff Kingsbury.
    — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Some of those seeking to escape hire guides to lead them through the mountains.
    — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
  • On average, a new hire takes 291 days to process, the audit found.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2023
  • There are sun loungers for hire, but this is the kind of place to buy your own chair at the supermarket and haul it across the sand.
    — Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2023
  • But she’s been a punk, a headbanger, a grunge brat, a club kid, an R&B girl-for-hire, and a law-breaking lover of 4 Non Blondes.
    — Kate Sullivan, SPIN, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Hugh Freeze’s presence on the trail has been apparent since his hire.
    — Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Some people raved about the hire to replace Monty Williams in Phoenix, while others were not fans of the move.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 2 June 2023
  • The former Kent State coach is plenty sharp enough to handle the load and was one of the smartest hires of the offseason, anywhere.
    — Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Levin had been a steady influence at Roku, and was the company’s first ad-sales hire.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The Glendale battery park is expected to get new hires first.
    — Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 31 July 2023
  • This hire brings the correction staff to three officers.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 13 May 2023
  • Everything else is just kind of ‘actor for hire,’ but this is my homage to my people.
    — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The short-term hires may never set foot on set, a crucial step to becoming a showrunner.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2023
  • One of his new hires — a middle school English teacher from Nevada — had backed out.
    — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Schedules were even more grueling for the newest hires.
    — Justin Mayo Taylor Glascock, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Recent hires who make considerably less than the top wage will see their pay nearly double over the life of the contract, the union said.
    — Noam Scheiber, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The first complaint about him came about eight months later, while Kriv was still a probationary hire.
    — Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, 3 June 2023
  • Managers would like the ability to spare more recent hires from the cuts and instead pull from a pool of more veteran staffers.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Dalio offered a response for his newest hire: The problem was clearly Culp.
    — Rob Copeland, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Going forward, new hires will be paid eighty-five per cent of the top rate after two years, and a hundred per cent after three years.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2023
  • And this made Ladd a star instantly as a sympathetic killer for hire.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 9 May 2023
  • Padres adviser Mike Shildt, though, is the type of hire that makes immediate sense.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Employers in any sector aren’t eager to invest in a hire who sees them as a fallback.
    — Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • That’s the reason why all of our work is going to be in front of the paywall, and why one of our first hires was a community editor.
    — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • The Bucks hadn't even announced the hire as of midday Monday, and there certainly was no news conference.
    — Lori Nickel, Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2023
  • The new hires clashed with the old guard, leading to tensions, according to multiple miners.
    — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2023
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hire

2 of 2 verb
  • We hired someone to clean the office once a week.
  • The company isn't hiring right now.
  • She had very little office experience, so the company wouldn't hire her.
  • Marshall was the first call Gottlieb made when she was hired in 2021.
    — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023
  • In August 2022, Jones says he was hired to work on Combs’ new album and produced nine songs for the project.
    — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2024
  • But Jamie had no plans to go down without a fight and didn't hesitate to hire his own killer to take out Beth.
    — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 17 June 2023
  • The Prime Video film sees three improv actors hired by the police to help stage low-level stings.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Former assistant Chad Forcier was hired in Utah to work for the Jazz.
    — Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 28 June 2023
  • If there’s a dispute with the institution, the tribe must hire a lawyer, and the costs can quickly increase.
    — Nicole Santa Cruz, ProPublica, 20 Oct. 2023
  • In some cases, they were hired to work for other agencies.
    — Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The board will in all likelihood hire a headhunting firm to conduct a broad search.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Tipps is the second athletic director the Bentonville board has hired in the past month.
    — Al Gaspeny, Arkansas Online, 1 June 2023
  • Mason Steinberg, who was hired in the role last year, is exiting.
    — Michaela Zee, Variety, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Within weeks, Weinberg became worried about the car and hired an expert to inspect it at the Siegles’ shop.
    — Terry Spencer, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The campaign has now opened lots of field offices and hiring staff, while Trump's ground game is lagging in key states, like Arizona.
    — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Carr was among a slew of Spartans who entered the transfer portal last month, a few days after new head coach Jonathan Smith was hired.
    — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 8 Jan. 2024
  • That game was coached by Brian Kelly who was hired from Central Michigan.
    — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 9 Jan. 2024
  • With the grant money, the goal is to hire two more social workers and have two more officers assigned to the teams by early 2024, Visser-Pardee said.
    — Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Life took a turn for the delicious when he was hired by a Jewish summer camp and learned that kitchen duty was preferable to cleaning pools.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
  • Nearly twenty-five years later, as the statute of limitations on the case nears, Mette's mother hires Veum.
    — David Nikel, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Easing hiring and wage growth could be a sign that the economy is starting to slow after a red-hot summer.
    — David Harrison, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The council dismissed the mayor’s protest and voted unanimously to hire Brown.
    — Joseph D. Bryant | Jbryant@al.com, al, 6 June 2023
  • Visser, hired to catch a cheating spouse and her lover in the act, ends up double-crossing and killing his client, emptying his safe and framing the wife for the murder.
    — Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Winners are also advised to hire a team of advisers when claiming such a large sum.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 21 July 2023
  • The second phase requires that a minimum of 40 percent of the labor is locally hired.
    — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The city of San Diego also recently hired the firm, based in Roseville outside Sacramento, to find its next fire chief.
    — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • In 2024, hiring will be more modest, but rising real wage growth will matter more.
    — Bycarl Nassib, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2023
  • One of those benefits came in hiring a UX designer, says Switzer.
    — WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023
  • However, Austin says NPS rangers have yet to release permits to the foundations and companies that have been hired.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 16 June 2023
  • Try snowmobiling for the first time, hire a snowshoe guide, or take a ski lesson at Saskadena Ski Resort.
    — Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 15 Nov. 2023

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