Example Sentences

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Eight workers in each dorm had staffed eight-hour shifts, he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2023

Like their global peers, many Canadian investment banks had staffed up during the pandemic only to see dealmaking slow last year.

From Reuters • Jan. 26, 2023

In May, the company acknowledged that it had staffed up too quickly at its warehouses to keep pace with demand, which by then was cooling.

From Washington Post • Nov. 15, 2022

On two days this week, at peak traffic hours, CBP had staffed only one of four passenger vehicle lanes.

From Washington Times • Sep. 9, 2019

By 1951, the Propeller Research Tunnel was declared obsolete and demolished, and the engineers that had staffed it were left to find a new specialty or retire.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly