How to Use seniority in a Sentence

seniority

noun

• He has worked here longer than I have, so he has seniority over me.
• Promotions are based on merit and seniority.
• He was known as the dean of the House for his seniority.
  — Fox News, 3 Apr. 2022
• Young’s rise in seniority and stature did little to smooth his rough edges.
  — Tom Kizzia, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2022
• His colleague had one day’s seniority over him and chose New York City.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2023
• These vendors enjoy a kind of seniority within the market, most of them with 15 years or more of time there.
  — Karla Tatiana Vasquez, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• And, and now only some of the detectives there will wind up there because of seniority.
  — Staff Reports, cleveland, 8 Aug. 2022
• In 1986, the court ruled that a local school board in Michigan could not lay off a white teacher with more seniority over a Black teacher with less.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• There was the ideological reason and then there was the pure seniority part of it.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 7 June 2023
• But the family also can’t help but see it as a matter of seniority.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024
• No story was too small for her, despite her seniority, having spent nearly three decades in the field.
  — Dalia Hatuqa, CNN, 16 May 2022
• Things may get easier as your boyfriend gains rank and more seniority in the military.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 16 Apr. 2023
• Full-time employees at the Big Three make $18 to $32 an hour, depending on seniority.
  — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
• But then Clive learned that the starting salary of the new civil engineer was the same as his own, despite Clive’s five-year seniority and strong performance.
  — Aliza Knox, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• With each group of longer seniority, the amount went up until those who had worked there for more than two decades got a check worth almost seven times their annual salary.
  — Peter Georgescu, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• Wages for full-timers at the Big Three currently range from roughly $18 an hour to $32 an hour, depending on seniority, according to the union.
  — Jeanne Whalen, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2023
• In many white-collar industries, such flexibility was one of the perks of seniority in the pre-Covid era.
  — Callum Borchers, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2022
• For the state as a whole, the loss of both Feinstein and McCarthy would mean a sudden, huge reduction in the political clout that comes with long seniority.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• Their wages at the Big Three currently range from roughly $18 an hour to $32 an hour, depending on seniority, according to the union.
  — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
• Neither their seniority nor the size of their firm are predictive of their performance.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
• Democrats, meanwhile, supported and opposed the deal at about the same rate regardless of seniority.
  — Alexandra Marquez, NBC News, 1 June 2023
• People are feeling the effects of burnout and stress at a high rate regardless of their profession or seniority.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
• Black people were able to rise to seniority and obtain higher paying positions that they’d been denied in the past.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 13 Oct. 2023
• Many of those being lured away are pilots with the most seniority and experience.
  — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2022
• The layoffs were expected to impact employees with the least seniority, per the union’s contract.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 23 Jan. 2024
• The point of the show is to expose viewers to the arduous and degrading experiences that doctors in the U.K. go through on their paths toward seniority.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 23 June 2022
• The number held no meaning to Schmitt, who also didn’t exactly have any claim of seniority, either.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2024
• Lindsay Ruck, who has worked at the Cheesecake Factory for 14 years, enjoys the privileges that come with that seniority.
  — Colin Lodewick, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2022
• No matter the age or seniority, Chen says a common thread among Blind users is their desire for independence.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2022
• As the oldest of five sisters, Oswego’s Anna Johnson has seniority at her house.
  — Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024