How to Use employ in a Sentence

employ

1 of 2 verb

• I had to employ a lawyer to review the contract.
• You should find better ways to employ your time.
• The company is accused of employing questionable methods to obtain the contract.
• It's a small company, employing a staff of only 20.
• People the world over want to make and sell stuff in the U.S. and employ Americans to do it.
  — The Editors, National Review, 22 Dec. 2023
• Dunn has since been removed from that program, the TSA said, and is no longer employed with Delta.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2023
• Court records show Donaldson had been employed with the city since 2005.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2023
• Wade had worked as a dancer on cruise ships and was employed on one at the time of the investigation.
  — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2024
• But the number of those farms is likely in the thousands since many employ only one or two workers.
  — Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 22 Dec. 2023
• The problem arose when groups started employing it as a hate-speech code instead.
  — Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2024
• Berk employs this method to think of a room in terms of the five senses and trying to ground readers in finding items to fill their space that are able to activate the senses.
  — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 11 Sep. 2023
• The Choctaw School District employs five Choctaw officers for every home game.
  — Paradise Afshar, CNN, 26 Aug. 2023
• Many productions also employ fewer writers than were on staff in the past.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 22 Sep. 2023
• In this new lawsuit, Jane Doe is suing both Allen and his bodyguard, as well as the company that was employing the bodyguard, at the time.
  — Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 9 June 2023
• The labor force is the total number of people employed and unemployed.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024
• This is a tactic vendors of all sizes can employ to make returns somewhat more predictable.
  — Heather Hoover-Salomon, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
• Under the order, dated Wednesday, Norway will be able to employ up to 27 locals.
  — Eve Sampson, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
• Those crimes went unsolved for 33 years, during which time he was employed at the Tunbridge Wells Hospital, in Pembury.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 29 Nov. 2023
• No one currently employed by the company could be reached for comment.
  — Abigail Geiger, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2023
• To handle heftier loads comfortably, the pack employs a close-to-body carry design.
  — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2024
• George was employed as a principal with West Fargo Public Schools.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 23 Mar. 2024
• There’s some hope for truth seekers, as Google says the metadata will note whether Magic Editor was employed.
  — WIRED, 4 Oct. 2023
• The number of people employed by state prisons fell in 2022 to its lowest point in more than two decades, according to U.S. census data.
  — Justin Mayo Taylor Glascock, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• The workers with blue badges were employed directly by Amazon, a co-worker explained.
  — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2023
• Some leaf rakes use a thinner build or employ a staggered, dual-tine system to help maneuver between the shrubs.
  — Gabriel Morgan, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2023
• Confusing tactics were employed to teach children how to read.
  — Arthur Jones Ii, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2023
• Advice Dear Amy: My coworkers and I are employed by a doctor in a small successful practice.
  — Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 17 June 2023
• The brand is also proud to employ traditional methods of design to create pieces that evoke the brand’s ethos driven by a sense of optimism for the future.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 8 Nov. 2023
• This was the era of debutante balls for which fantasy gowns employing couture techniques were de rigueur, and Lowe acquired these skills early on.
  — Shelcy Joseph, Essence, 21 Dec. 2023
• Pumice and volcanic ash were employed by Mesoamericans when constructing the still-standing city of El Tajin in Mexico about 1,000 years ago.
  — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023

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employ

2 of 2 noun

• Eve has now left that, so Eve is no longer in her employ.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 8 Apr. 2020
• Five of the Sherpa killed in the 2014 avalanche were under the employ of Alpine Ascents.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2015
• Again, the word ‘employ’ was used in the context of ownership.
  — Michael Isaac Stein, NOLA.com, 13 Nov. 2020
• On the other side, the double wing offense the Blue Devils employ grinds down the clock.
  — Matt Doherty, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2021
• Carmontelle was a creative polymath in the employ of the young, fun-lovin’ Duke of Chartres.
  — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020
• In the old days, the FAA had armies of aviation engineers in its employ.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Apr. 2019
• This range can be affected by the type of flash the camera employs (see below).
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 2 Aug. 2023
• Point is, the new owner has smart hockey people in his employ.
  — Mark Faller, azcentral, 19 June 2019
• But his victims were wild horses and his killing was done in the employ of the Province of British Columbia.
  — I.p. Calliston, Outdoor Life, 27 Feb. 2023
• Others in her circle may be anxious about what the people in their employ will say about them.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 26 July 2023
• The Englishman probably found himself in the employ of the Mongol Empire by some point in the 1230s.
  — Nicholas Morton, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2023
• And loving this world is a requirement to be in Mazzella’s employ.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
• Teams would spread it out, employ centers as defense-first space eaters, and fire off threes at volume.
  — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2023
• However, a lack of financial resources forced him to seek the employ of the United States Navy.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 5 June 2019
• Now in the employ of the Brooklyn Nets, Durant could miss the entire upcoming season.
  — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 19 July 2019
• How long Dedmon remains under the Spurs' employ remains to be seen.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Feb. 2023
• Weary of touring, Mr. Crowe left Mr. Martin’s employ in 1961.
  — New York Times, 28 Dec. 2021
• And as of Tuesday evening, Mr. Cuomo had few supporters left, aside from those in his employ.
  — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2021
• The most pointed reaction came from Michael Dickson, the former punter now in the employ of the Seattle Seahawks.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 11 Oct. 2020
• Louisa De Genero founded the spot in 1981, after years under the employ of Pizzeria Due.
  — Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2020
• The cruise industry gets knocked around for the long hours and often hectic conditions of the people in its employ.
  — Michael Ian Black, New York Times, 3 July 2018
• This was the conservative disposition at its best, in the employ of the Labour Party.
  — R.c., The Economist, 9 July 2019
• So Mando goes back to work as a bounty hunter in the unofficial employ of the New Republic.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• Pierre Cardin is briefly in the employ of Schiaparelli.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 1 July 2022
• Combining the projects lets the city employ just one architect and one contractor.
  — Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2022
• This is a vision of the nation that has been sold to us by a generation of politicians who talk brave and act gutless, and by the carny shills in the employ of the industries of death.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 2 Oct. 2017
• With technology, the Newbys employ about 13 people in their farming business, and the crops are hi-tech.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al.com, 14 July 2019
• Many fields of public health employ screening test strategies.
  — Popular Science, 18 Aug. 2020
• Then there’s the third problem of Oscar Rivi’s cannabis deal, which is put in jeopardy by his hair-trigger temper and the fates of three street dealers under his employ.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2021
• Readers could see if plague outbreaks were occurring close to their homes or places of employ and be better prepared.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 24 Apr. 2017

Last Updated: 3 May 2024