How to Use referral in a Sentence

referral

noun

• The counselor may make a referral to help the child, and perhaps even the aunt.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• The request for a bed has to be made through a referral.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2021
• The Griffins received the referral to adopt her in late April and picked her up in mid-June.
  — Barbara Demick, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
• If that's the case, paying them for a referral might even hurt.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
• Testing is free with a referral, and anyone who needs a lift to the site can get one.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2020
• Users can refer up to 20 friends and get $50 for each referral.
  — Ian Firstenberg, Chicago Tribune, 26 Feb. 2023
• With my referral—and with Annie’s—the surgery was offered as a first option.
  — Alani Vargas, Vogue, 25 May 2021
• Your physician is the first person to ask for a referral.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 18 Nov. 2020
• The vote by the full House is the last step before sending the referral to the Justice department.
  — Zachary Cohen and Ryan Nobles, CNN, 13 Dec. 2021
• Such referrals to the Treasury are required once a loan is 120 days past due, the agency said.
  — Lewis Kamb, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
• Second, parents/guardians can make a referral to the school.
  — Mj Slaby, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Aug. 2020
• For over a month Mandy had been promising to go back to the doctor and get a referral for a specialist.
  — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 30 Nov. 2020
• Your credentials and referrals may get you on the shortlist for that new job.
  — Anne Marie Chaker, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2024
• The bank’s chief says the startup spends about 1% of revenue on marketing, while word-of-mouth referrals do the rest.
  — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 13 Dec. 2019
• In another 27% of cases, the worker wasn’t told of the referral for more than 72 hours.
  — Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 16 June 2020
• That might be the right service to offer in exchange for referrals.
  — Fadi Agour, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Last school year, there were three arrests and 39 referrals.
  — Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
• San Diegans without a provider should call 2-1-1 to get a referral.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2020
• See your physician right away and ask for a referral to a therapist.
  — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 18 Dec. 2020
• See your physician right away, and ask for a referral to a therapist.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2020
• To date, all of my clients slid into my DMs and every project has been [secured through] word-of-mouth referrals.
  — Sydney Gore, Architectural Digest, 6 Feb. 2025
• The Seniors Job Bank does not charge a fee--to the job seeker or the client--for facilitating the referral.
  — courant.com, 10 Sep. 2020
• Get referrals from friends and use third-party sources to learn more about what people think of the company.
  — Idalia Garcia, Car and Driver, 9 June 2023
• One of the six cases announced is a referral from Facebook.
  — Tyler Van Dyke, Washington Examiner, 1 Dec. 2020
• Reach out to former colleagues for job leads and referrals.
  — Winnie Sun, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
• Cleveland will start enforcement of the law in 2023, which could include fines and referrals to the city’s Housing Court.
  — Jordyn Grzelewski, cleveland, 7 Feb. 2020
• Now called the Secure the Border Act, the measure is one of 11 legislative referrals on the ballot this year.
  — Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024
• Those who have not been patients at UT Southwestern will need to call and get a referral to that clinic.
  — Anna Kuchment, Dallas News, 21 Sep. 2020
• Gabbard sent criminal referrals to the department over the report.
  — Filip Timotija, The Hill, 26 July 2025
• The clients who have become my most important sources of referrals are those who experienced transformational coaching that resulted in breakthroughs—big wins with their teams or promotions at work.
  — Elissa Kelly, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025