How to Use on furlough in a Sentence

on furlough

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• Many of them had been on furlough for months and were waiting to be called back to work.
  — Peggy O’Hare, ExpressNews.com, 1 Sep. 2020
• Millions of people have lost jobs, been placed on furlough or switched to working from home.
  — Christina Maslach, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2022
• And hundreds of thousands more are on furlough, told not to work, but not paid, either.
  — Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2025
• Liao was called back into work in March after being on furlough for a year.
  — Washington Post, 11 June 2021
• Millions, of course, were either laid off or put on furlough during the crisis.
  — John F. Wasik, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
• Can employees take other jobs while on furlough?
  — Medora Lee, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
• When the pandemic arrived a year ago, the hotel sent her and her co-workers home on furlough.
  — Jonathan O'Connell, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2021
• The theater laid off over 70% of its staff, and a number of others remain on furlough.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 19 Mar. 2021
• My older sister moved in with me after she was placed on furlough because of the pandemic.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2021
• Meyer, with most of his six staff and 70 or so satellite crew members on furlough, faces a double whammy.
  — Leanne Italie, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2023
• Kentucky resident servicemen or women on furlough of more than three days.
  — Hannah Pinski, Louisville Courier Journal, 9 Jan. 2026
• Thousands of federal employees were placed on furlough or required to work without pay.
  — Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2025
• Almost a third of Disney park workers, many of whom had been on furlough since April, are affected.
  — Adam Epstein, Quartz, 30 Sep. 2020
• By contrast, more than half of all workers in the arts, entertainment and recreation sector remained on furlough.
  — Paul Hannon and Jason Douglas, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2020
• The federal government has shut down since last week's events, putting thousands of the agency's employees on furlough.
  — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025
• Horton was serving a life sentence for murder in Massachusetts when he was released on furlough.
  — Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2025
• On Thursday, that support started to be phased out with companies with staff still on furlough having to pick up 10% of the bill.
  — Pan Pylas, Star Tribune, 1 July 2021
• Meanwhile, thousands of government workers deemed non-essential are on furlough.
  — Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 29 Oct. 2025
• Analysts forecast that unemployment, which has remained steady so far as companies were able to put workers on furlough or cut wages, will climb in the fall.
  — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 16 June 2022
• Munoz, a San Antonio resident, has been on furlough from Marriott since March.
  — Peggy O’Hare, ExpressNews.com, 1 Sep. 2020
• With more than two million people still on furlough (temporary layoff), more payroll reports approaching one million are not out of the question.
  — Jeffrey Schulze, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• Lack of reliable migration data, the fact that some workers are still on furlough and the uncertainty of the pandemic have all made the true picture more opaque.
  — New York Times, 17 June 2021
• According to The Detroit News, the employee has been on furlough since earlier this year.
  — Caitlin Conant, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2020
• The Pod Philly Hotel is one of those temporarily closed -- with nearly all of its 30-person staff on furlough.
  — Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 28 Sep. 2020
• Nearly one month into the government shutdown, hundreds of thousands of federal workers remain on furlough.
  — Ava Pukatch, NPR, 29 Oct. 2025
• This applies both to those returning to the workplace after months on furlough and those who have continued working throughout the pandemic, now feeling close to burnout in many instances.
  — Sally Percy, Forbes, 10 May 2021
• When the pandemic first hit, Rachel said she was put on furlough and was able to take advantage of unemployment benefits until the industry reopened.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 27 Dec. 2021
• The shutdown has resulted in about 750,000 federal workers being placed on furlough.
  — Joey Garrison, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
• Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 42, has been on furlough from prison because of the coronavirus pandemic after serving nearly all of her sentence.
  — Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2020
• Like many employees who were placed on furlough by their employers or let go entirely, Kevin is struggling with re-entering the workforce with his previous employer.
  — Marco Buscaglia, chicagotribune.com, 20 Aug. 2020