How to Use staffer in a Sentence

staffer

noun
  • On their way out of the park for the day, the trio asked staffers to take a look.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The students were all 9 years old and the staffers were in their 60s.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Here are reviews from some NPR staffers and the recipe.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 22 Nov. 2024
  • In 1956, the Chicago Sun-Times hired him as a straw poll staffer.
    Bob Goldsborough, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2021
  • Think of it as a place of peace, a Dallas ISD staffer told them.
    Dallas News, 18 May 2022
  • When a staff member grabbed a trashcan from the younger boy, the boy punched the staffer four times.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 30 June 2022
  • Some of Stein's staffers are in positions of power - and have the ear of the White House.
    Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, NPR, 23 June 2025
  • Johnson, the law firm staffer, was the first witness to take the stand Wednesday.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Schlapp invited the staffer to meet him for drinks that night.
    Beth Reinhard, Isaac Arnsdorf, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The clinic was closed for the weekend, and the doctor who leads it told the AP its staffers were safe.
    Eric Tucker, Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2025
  • As the event winds down, fans yell for Bogaerts to stay as a team staffer tries to lead him away.
    Stan Grossfeld, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2022
  • And a staffer tells me that’s been the case in other parts of the world where the same procedure has been used.
    Steve Lopez Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2021
  • In 1964, a staffer with a cash box was robbed by two men at gunpoint and locked in the boiler room.
    Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Aug. 2021
  • But the golf club is still open, according to a staffer who answered the phone.
    David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 6 May 2022
  • So did the rise of top Trump aide Stephen Miller, a former Sessions staffer.
    W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 25 June 2024
  • There isn't a C/D staffer who doesn't like it straight from the factory.
    Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Poole Franklin then began throwing the items and yelling racial slurs at the staffer and Black customers in the store.
    Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2021
  • The campaign has a full-time deputy, George Brehl, who also was a full-time staffer in 2018.
    Ct Mirror, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Many of the Nuggets staffers made the trip, including their media team.
    Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Her son’s day care shut down last week after a staffer came down with covid-19.
    Abha Bhattarai, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Some refuges have just one staffer left, Chandler said.
    Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • In the year since forming the union, Pineapple Street staffers have yet to stage any kind of work stoppage.
    Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Khan served as a key staffer and adviser on the hearing.
    Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 30 June 2021
  • There was a balloon arch and Southwest staffers dressed as the sun and moon for one last photo op on the way out.
    Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 9 Apr. 2024
  • On Thursday, dozens of city staffers and first responders marched through the muck.
    Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Dennis, a full-time assistant since 2020, has been in the room that long as well as a staffer.
    Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 30 Dec. 2022
  • It’s reopened walk-in tax clinics that shuttered as staffers quit over the years.
    Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Lightfoot argued that the staffer did a Google search of the emails to find them, and no government funds were used to fund the emails.
    Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Human staffers can also use a Binti chatbot AMA service to get answers about aspects of the job.
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Even the grants that survived are not being paid out, partly because the administration has fired the workers who administer the funding, said former and current staffers.
    ProPublica, 21 Aug. 2025

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