How to Use short-staffed in a Sentence

short-staffed

adjective
  • But on this day, a worker went home sick, leaving her unit short-staffed.
    — Molly Parker, ProPublica, 11 July 2023
  • Miners are now fighting and dying at the front, leaving the mines short-staffed.
    — Michael Robinson Chávez, NPR, 7 Dec. 2024
  • The flu is not only taking its toll on the ill but also leaving millions of work teams short-staffed.
    — Lieke Ten Brummelhuis, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The rest of the county shelters are similarly short-staffed, the report said.
    — Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2023
  • On Sunday, the weather and being short-staffed kept him from attending the game in Dallas.
    — Jessica Rodriguez, Journal Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Its ministries and armed forces were short-staffed and dysfunctional.
    — C. Christine Fair, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2015
  • Grossberg said Bartiromo’s show was so short-staffed that she was forced to do multiple jobs at once.
    — Sarah Fitzpatrick, NBC News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • According to Duke, the current team of nurses was short-staffed on nearly every shift.
    — Jennifer Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Since the pandemic, the court has struggled with a backlog of cases, a backlog that became even more challenging due to the court being short-staffed on the bench.
    — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
  • But in bureaucratic or short-staffed environments, even six months to a year of notice may not be long enough.
    — Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Hernandez was news editor of the school paper at the time, but was also left with much of the reporting and writing work due to a short-staffed newsroom.
    — Sanjana Ganguly-Fitzgerald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2023
  • At the same time, the department is operating short-staffed — down 81 health inspectors.
    — Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Golden State faced another one of those short-staffed teams in the Kaseya Center, as the hosting Heat were missing five rotation players.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Any potential exit of the number '7' would be disastrous for Xavi Hernandez's team, however, and could leave it short-staffed on the wings.
    — Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • They also were placed on restricted duties, leaving the hospital even more short-staffed in patient care.
    — Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Platform teams are often short-staffed, and developers may lack both the skills and training to manage Kubernetes.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Over the summer, the 911 center was chronically short-staffed, according to OUC’s data.
    — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
  • That will be a challenge in a short-staffed department, because officers will have to come off patrol to attend training sessions.
    — Kyle Stokes, Axios, 16 Sep. 2024
  • For example, a doctor at Olive View occasionally treats inmates at the short-staffed jails.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
  • Carmack-Altwies said her office is short-staffed, and will have only 15 of its 24 prosecutor positions filled by the end of April.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Managers often worry about filling open shifts, which can leave businesses short-staffed.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, WWD, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Other candidates have pointed to gaps from a lack of school resource deputies to short-staffed patrols in Osceola’s west side tourist corridor.
    — Cristóbal Reyes, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2024
  • His new paper takes that a step farther: The thrust is that for short-staffed or under-skilled companies, existing part-time workers who want to log more hours could be better utilized.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 27 July 2023
  • Interviews with 13 current city staffers suggest that while the situation has improved this year at some agencies, others are still short-staffed, and triage remains the norm.
    — Emma G. Fitzsimmons, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The travel industry remains short-staffed, and particularly for the back-office jobs that require a lot of training.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Experts say many labs are short-staffed and cash-strapped, in some cases receiving only hundreds of dollars to complete tests that can cost thousands, such as analyses of rape kits or firearms.
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2024
  • Interstate Navigation was short-staffed, and did not have the necessary crew and security to properly staff the ferry and deal with the crowds, the suit alleges.
    — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Or picture a facility so short-staffed on an overnight shift that no one is available to respond to an emergency, leading to a resident's death.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Currently, mis-triage (inappropriate care) happens nearly a third of the time—often when the emergency room is backed up or short-staffed.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 7 June 2024
  • Allen said the city’s towing and booting authority team was severely short-staffed until last year, when the budget increased for that program.
    — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023

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