How to Use short-staffed in a Sentence

short-staffed

adjective

• These fast-food places are busy and short-staffed.
  — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
• But on this day, a worker went home sick, leaving her unit short-staffed.
  — Molly Parker, ProPublica, 11 July 2023
• Both centers are already short-staffed.
  — Evan Bush, NBC news, 8 Nov. 2025
• She's been short-staffed between both locations for months at a time.
  — Ayesha Rascoe, NPR, 1 Nov. 2026
• The Pitt is short-staffed in performances.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 20 June 2026
• But low pay and a lack of benefits has led to high turnover and her team being short-staffed.
  — Dj Simmons, Charlotte Observer, 28 May 2026
• Some forecast offices will be so short-staffed that they may be forced to go to part-time services.
  — Louis Uccellini, Sun Sentinel, 13 May 2025
• Miners are now fighting and dying at the front, leaving the mines short-staffed.
  — Michael Robinson Chávez, NPR, 7 Dec. 2024
• But the report found that the medical providers were short-staffed on nights and weekends.
  — Teri Figueroa, Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2025
• Health care services are overwhelmed or short-staffed, and chaos is rising in both countries.
  — Mohammad Hosseini, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2025
• Its ministries and armed forces were short-staffed and dysfunctional.
  — C. Christine Fair, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2015
• The flu is not only taking its toll on the ill but also leaving millions of work teams short-staffed.
  — Lieke Ten Brummelhuis, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
• If our national parks are short-staffed, the public is likely to notice.
  — Karlyn Bowman, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
• Still, work goes on at the offices, even if the organization is short-staffed.
  — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 20 Feb. 2026
• One fateful day when the newsroom was short-staffed, bosses asked the green college student to step in.
  — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2026
• The agency has been short-staffed for years, federal documents show.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 2 May 2025
• And given how short-staffed the prison has been of late, getting yard time is difficult for everyone.
  — Phoebe Eaton, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2025
• The rest of the county shelters are similarly short-staffed, the report said.
  — Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2023
• Grossberg said Bartiromo’s show was so short-staffed that she was forced to do multiple jobs at once.
  — Sarah Fitzpatrick, NBC News, 30 Mar. 2023
• Controllers in the United States are short-staffed, working long weeks and forced overtime.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2025
• Managers often worry about filling open shifts, which can leave businesses short-staffed.
  — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, WWD, 18 Jan. 2025
• According to Duke, the current team of nurses was short-staffed on nearly every shift.
  — Jennifer Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2023
• For Repetitive Tasks When a business is short-staffed, the instinct is to push the team.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
• They also were placed on restricted duties, leaving the hospital even more short-staffed in patient care.
  — Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2024
• There is also a huge strain on public health departments, which are already overburdened and short-staffed from budget cuts.
  — Judy Stone, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
• When a business is short-staffed, even the strongest customer service standards can be difficult to maintain.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
• On Sunday, the weather and being short-staffed kept him from attending the game in Dallas.
  — Jessica Rodriguez, Journal Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2024
• At the same time, the department is operating short-staffed — down 81 health inspectors.
  — Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• Practices that remain open are often short-staffed, and providers sometimes burn out after being on a 24/7 call schedule.
  — Alana Semuels, Time, 25 Aug. 2025
• The Fever fought to the end, taking the Aces to overtime despite being incredibly short-staffed.
  — Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025