How to Use profession in a Sentence

profession

noun
  • The doctor talked to students who are thinking about entering the profession.
  • Most professions in the medical field require years of training.
  • Their daughter recently became a member of the medical profession.
  • So does this war's toll on his profession.
    Lauren Frayer, NPR, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Bob was a friend to many in the sports profession and will be deeply missed.
    Ethan Westerman, arkansasonline.com, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Our profession asks much of us.
    Allen Buchanan, Oc Register, 20 Dec. 2025
  • There is a part of me that wants to make things better in my profession.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Our profession is now the least trusted of all.
    Jimmy Wales, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025
  • What might this sort of profession-wide action look like on the ground?
    Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Yet a decade later, a third of the jobs in those professions would be gone.
    Josh Tyrangiel, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The printing trade was his start, the profession that made him.
    Adam Smyth, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2024
  • And that's not like any other job or profession.
    Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The coaching profession has evolved over the years.
    Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 26 June 2026
  • Then again, the scrivener is a lost profession.
    Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025
  • That’s the trouble with this type of profession.
    Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The 200 jobs would be spread across a range of professions.
    John Marks, Charlotte Observer, 1 May 2026
  • That is where the profession has arrived.
    Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Dance became her refuge and her profession.
    Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Most of all, how to not let your profession entirely take over your life.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2026
  • And still, many in my profession see Weiss as the problem.
    Debra J. Saunders, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
  • This is what drives many teachers into the profession in the first place.
    Mackenzie Price, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • One gets the sense that living here triggered your choice of profession?
    Jerald “coop” Cooper, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The same impulses that drove him to scale the heights of his profession are what doomed him.
    Vulture, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Brand has a strong link to the profession through his family.
    Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2026
  • And he's been engaged in a lot of lawsuits against your profession.
    CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
  • These are the professions with the highest rates of substance abuse.
    Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Still, things can go awry even in professions well-suited to flatness.
    Claire Zillman, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2026
  • As in any profession, some umps are better than others.
    Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Close’s pay, however, has trailed those at the top of her profession.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 5 Apr. 2026
  • And sometimes that could be like your profession, like skiing, right?
    Outside Online, 31 Dec. 2025

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