How to Use on (the) staff in a Sentence

on (the) staff

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  • By then there were a lot of conflicts on the staff over the whole story.
    James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Kamen assured him that there was someone on staff who could help him.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The school district now has more than half a dozen specialists on staff.
    Graham P. Johnson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Biden went on to lay blame for the documents on staff that packed up his offices.
    Justin Sink, Bloomberg.com, 9 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • Everybody on the staff and all the players are helping me a lot.
    Miami Herald, 12 July 2025
  • 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, 11 June 2024
  • The company has five full-time employees, and a part-time artist on staff.
    Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • Instead, Kennedy won the support of the board; the man remained on staff.
    Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Zhuang didn’t return a request for comment on the staff shakeup.
    Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 24 July 2024
  • There’d just been a mass resignation on staff, and lenders had pulled millions.
    Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 25 Sep. 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
  • Don't hesitate to reach out to me or another guy on the staff with any questions.
    Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Collins remains on staff and has been active on Twitter in recent days.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 16 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Last summer, the county had 103 guards on staff, Wallace said.
    Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2024
  • Since joining, Vasseur has shifted the culture to reduce pressure on the staff.
    Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 July 2025
  • 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
  • Tyrrell — like many prisons in North Carolina and across the country — is also short on staff.
    Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 12 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • Nelson said the City Council made the decision to keep Denham on staff.
    Stephen Simpson, Arkansas Online, 3 Dec. 2022
  • Lucas has been on staff with UCA for five seasons, the past four in a full-time capacity.
    Richard Davenport, Arkansas Online, 29 May 2025
  • Roberts has been a co-anchor of the show since 2005, meaning that Strahan spent most of his time on the staff with her.
    Michael Nied, People.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Some of us on staff were reminded, for good or ill, of Terence Malick’s Tree of Life.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 28 July 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
  • During Walz's tenure as an assistant on the staff, the team won a state championship in 1999.
    Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 19 Oct. 2024
  • 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 | [email protected], al, 16 Aug. 2023

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