How to Use out sick in a Sentence

out sick

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• Public schools will only close if 40% of staff calls out sick.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2022
• The idea was to build enough bandwidth to deal with surges, even during times of the year when staff tend to be out sick.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 12 June 2024
• Gary manned the window on days when both Marla and Alondra were off or out sick.
  — Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
• She’s heard from patients that classroom sizes have felt smaller as five to six students have been out sick at the same time.
  — Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
• Administrators have more time to replace staffers who call out sick.
  — Brooke Schultz, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2023
• The delay, Ryder said, was because Austin’s chief of staff was out sick with the flu.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2024
• Healthcare workers in particular being out sick at the same time.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
• D’Arcangelo, who had called out sick both Monday and Tuesday, didn’t attend.
  — Elizabeth Koh, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• The following day, Joy Behar announced that the actress was out sick with the virus.
  — Matt Robison, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
• With one colleague out sick and no replacement on deck, two nurses and a nervous trainee will have to cover more than two dozen patients.
  — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 20 Mar. 2026
• That can include if a district has to close because of a storm or on days when a significant number of students are out sick.
  — Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 28 Oct. 2025
• The trooper started calling out sick, unable to perform his patrol duties.
  — Fox News, 29 June 2022
• Wolves even contribute to the health of their prey populations by weeding out sick animals.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2022
• Several airlines canceled flights when crewmembers called out sick with the coronavirus.
  — Gregory Wallace, CNN, 31 Jan. 2022
• The company's previous policy allowed employees to call out sick eight times over the span of a year.
  — Brianna Griff, Chron, 1 Feb. 2023
• The Hawks have had a few players out sick lately, so who knows, maybe Bish will be pressed into emergency duty.
  — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2023
• Too many delivery drivers out sick could lead to delays in stocking shelves at stores or delivering packages.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022
• If the key person in your operation is out sick or on vacation, someone else has to be ready to serve your customers seamlessly.
  — Don Yaeger, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
• Smith sat in for Circuit Judge Melissa Bellows, who was out sick on March 2.
  — Monroe Trombly, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Mar. 2026
• If Nick Senzel wasn’t out sick, Aquino would likely receive less playing time despite his defense.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 18 Apr. 2022
• Whenever one of the remaining two teachers needed a break, or is out sick, another staff member or assistant must step in to help.
  — Samantha J. Gross, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Feb. 2023
• The grocery worker in California with a major retail chain said that over the last few weeks between four and six workers a day have been out sick.
  — NBC News, 14 Jan. 2022
• What’s happening this fall is hardly a repeat of last school year, when students and staff were out sick with covid quarantining because they’d been exposed to the virus.
  — Donna St. George, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
• But the day her manuscript arrived, fate intervened when his assistant was out sick and Salerno opened the envelope.
  — Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023
• By Monday of this week, the attendance rate had dropped to 81%, with 14 staff members also out sick, Shuler said.
  — Zenebou Sylla, CNN, 24 Aug. 2023
• With three players out sick and coach Stephen Turner also absent, the Eagles stepped up against the biggest threat to their county supremacy.
  — Timothy Dashiell, Baltimore Sun, 23 Apr. 2024
• Simmons pulled the proposal from the commissioners’ agenda Tuesday because Miles was out sick.
  — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Apr. 2025
• Singh said he is typically supposed to handle a caseload of 20 patients, but that can often balloon to 40 when other nurses are out sick.
  — Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2025
• Griffin was out sick for the beginning of the week and was not present on Monday’s show, which was the first live show following the Thanksgiving Day break.
  — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 4 Dec. 2025
• Most people in the Bureau are under the impression that Abbott is still out sick, but Erika is starting to suspect something is wrong.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025