How to Use on (the) staff in a Sentence

on (the) staff

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  • The next year, the number of guards on staff declined again to 131.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2024
  • The next year, the number of guards on staff declined again to 131.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
  • By then there were a lot of conflicts on the staff over the whole story.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Instead, Kennedy won the support of the board; the man remained on staff.
    — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Five of the attorneys on staff are new to the practice.
    — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 13 Oct. 2024
  • His 29 strikeouts are the most on the staff and tied for seventh in the Eastern League.
    — Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 6 May 2025
  • Ellis played for the Cowboys for 11 years, the first nine with Zimmer on the staff.
    — Clarence E. Hill Jr., Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Sandoval had been on staff at ABM for more than two years.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 6 June 2024
  • In the end, she was more affected by the people in the crowd and on staff who stood up to the hecklers.
    — Jeremy Helligar, People.com, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Guests have to fill out comment cards at the end of their stay, noting who was the best and worst on staff.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Lane has been the head coach of Ole Miss since 2020 where Monte has been an analyst on the staff.
    — Jacob Lev, CNN, 12 July 2024
  • So Luther went all-in on coaching, took the job and got to be on staff while three of his boys played college ball.
    — Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 3 May 2024
  • She's been on staff as a senior health writer since 2020.
    — Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Biden went on to lay blame for the documents on staff that packed up his offices.
    — Justin Sink, Bloomberg.com, 9 Feb. 2023
  • One voice on the staff believes the absence that has affected them the most is left-back Mendy.
    — Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 11 May 2025
  • The school district now has more than half a dozen specialists on staff.
    — Graham P. Johnson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • This to me should be a last resort as many of the city departments are already short on staff.
    — Courier-News, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2025
  • As small businesses, neither of them has a lawyer on staff.
    — Sydney Lupkin, NPR, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Last summer, the county had 103 guards on staff, Wallace said.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The company has five full-time employees, and a part-time artist on staff.
    — Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Then, Auburn hired Hugh Freeze as the full-time head coach and kept Williams on staff as the associate head coach as well as the running backs coach.
    — Matt Cohen | McOhen@al.com, al, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Kamen assured him that there was someone on staff who could help him.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Zhuang didn’t return a request for comment on the staff shakeup.
    — Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 24 July 2024
  • Nelson said the City Council made the decision to keep Denham on staff.
    — Stephen Simpson, Arkansas Online, 3 Dec. 2022
  • The job often goes to the most veteran worker on staff — someone with knowledge of all the ins, outs and in-betweens of the restaurant.
    — Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The rules also call for facilities to have an RN on staff 24 hours a day, every day.
    — Matt Sedensky, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2023
  • There’d just been a mass resignation on staff, and lenders had pulled millions.
    — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Collins remains on staff and has been active on Twitter in recent days.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The artists visited the Arboretum in March 2023 to gather ideas by observing local wildlife and learning about the ecosystem from the scientists on staff.
    — Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2025
  • Connie Weber, one of two pharmacists on staff at West Seventh Pharmacy, worked for an independent pharmacy for 22 years until that shop closed.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 27 May 2025

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