How to Use hire in a Sentence

hire

1 of 2 noun
  • The company has a few new hires.
  • The hire of a car and other equipment will of course incur a supplementary charge.
  • That was the for-hire prong of the crime.
    Marcelena Spencer, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • And those folks aren’t known to be cheap hires.
    Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Not all of the names unveiled are new hires.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 27 Jan. 2026
  • There were no new hires — zero.
    Kate Callen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Here’s an overview of the hires.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The right hire earns their stripes quickly.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Critics were quick to ridicule the new hire.
    Caleb Groves, AJC.com, 29 May 2026
  • Aikman helped guide those hires.
    Joseph Hoyt, Dallas Morning News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The truth is, many bad hires look great on paper.
    Eli Rubel, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Payton, the coach, has been a home-run hire.
    Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 14 Sep. 2025
  • That rarely resolves to a six-month search for a full-time hire.
    Sue Mysko, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • That’s the hard part with the Parker hire.
    Dallas Morning News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • His hire in Atlanta was hailed as a savvy move.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
  • At the time, the Hackett hire made some sense.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Altman, for his part, has framed the hire as a bet on what comes next.
    Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The matching process is the hardest part of the hire.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Top performers are the first to leave when a new hire earns more.
    Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • New hires see everything from day one.
    Jason Phillips, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The new hire would be assigned to the city clerk’s office.
    Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 18 June 2026
  • Acqui-hires are most common in tech.
    Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • In the meantime, leave a comment with your thoughts on the new hires.
    Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Instead, ask clients what success looks like post-hire.
    Ankit Pathak, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • This is really a wait-and-see kind of hire, which is fine.
    Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 5 May 2026
  • Further key hires will soon be unveiled.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 7 Oct. 2025
  • That comes out to about 200 fewer new hires.
    Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 10 Mar. 2026
  • That comes out to about 200 fewer new hires.
    Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Tag trips to deals, hires and partnerships.
    Egor Karpovich, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • Smith said he and the owners were aligned with the profile of their next hire.
    Tom Bogert, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026

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.
  • And the poor soul who hired them.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 3 June 2026
  • Grant hires Aaron to spend a night with him.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Harbaugh was hired to clean up a mess.
    Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Most entrepreneurs hire to scale.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Somebody up there is gonna hire one of these guys some day.
    Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 11 Apr. 2026
  • There was no reason anyone in tech would hire me.
    Barbara Wittmann, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Sandrin had to hire a new plumber to redo the work.
    Jordyn Noennig, jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Layoff and hiring rates have been low for months.
    Sarah Jackson, CNBC, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Droves of workmen were hired to build sturdy piers.
    Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
  • On top of that, a string of clients who'd hired him for decades also passed away.
    Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Don’t just hire for culture fit; look for culture add.
    Karla Vallecillo, Hartford Courant, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The district is likely to hire movers to help with the project.
    Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Some states have even hired their own dieticians.
    Davis Winkie, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The pause made hiring for this year's gaps even more stressful.
    Sequoia Carrillo, NPR, 15 Oct. 2025
  • But hiring a coach costs thousands.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • We’re not getting hired for anything.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Or what about our all world coach that was hired Mike Pettine?
    Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026
  • Matthews is in the process of hiring a new town manager.
    Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 15 Oct. 2025
  • But that’s the beauty of being free – I wasn’t hired for this.
    Amy Reyes, Miami Herald, 14 May 2026
  • Open the checkbook and hire the best special teams coach available.
    Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The district is hosting eight hiring fairs over the next two months.
    Rory Linnane, jsonline.com, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The companies that thrive in the next decade won’t just be great at hiring.
    Agni Ghosh, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The hiring rate was unchanged, while the layoffs rate fell.
    Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Bose and crew have even been hired for a few celebrity birthdays and weddings.
    Niyaz Pirani, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Know yourself well enough to hire for your weaknesses.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • He was hired by the Flyers on May 14.
    Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • In the end, the best way to mitigate risk in the Alps is to hire a guide.
    Sergei Poljak, Outside, 7 Mar. 2026

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