How to Use understaffed in a Sentence

understaffed

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• But the jails are understaffed, with the main jail being about 15% short in staffing, according to Weekes.
  — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2024
• The Bethel Fire Department is understaffed right now, and Solesbee said firefighters worked hard to put out the rest of the fire.
  — Olivia Ebertz, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Aug. 2022
• Meanwhile, the county is down more than 300 social workers and is understaffed at the jail.
  — cleveland, 4 June 2022
• That’s a big difference from some of the older buildings, which have been so understaffed that some case managers have overseen as many as 85 clients at a time.
  — Trisha Thadani, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2023
• The process is typically voluntary, which can be a tough sell when plants are understaffed.
  — Betsy Ladyzhets, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2023
• My company has been woefully understaffed for months now with no end in sight.
  — Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2022
• But an official at an understaffed embassy in Kabul admitted to us that the to-do list feels daunting.
  — Graeme Smith, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2023
• Already understaffed ambulance services might be out a medic for weeks or months if they were injured.
  — Marion Renault, STAT, 7 July 2023
• By many accounts, Taiwan’s forces are poorly equipped and understaffed.
  — Amy Chang Chien, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2022
• And many are significantly understaffed, and simply don’t have the time to add data collection to their to-do list.
  — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 23 June 2022
• In a statement, CVS acknowledged stores – and the health care industry overall –are understaffed.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 10 Oct. 2023
• The Sheriff's Office doesn't need a staffing study to learn its entire operations are understaffed.
  — Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 28 Jan. 2023
• Among the player complaints were lack of warm water and poor drainage in the showers, an understaffed training room, no first-class seats offered on flights and not enough personal space in the locker room.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• Based on targets set by the F.A.A. and the union representing controllers, 99 percent of the nation’s air traffic control sites are understaffed.
  — Sydney Ember, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
• But those providers were burnt out, understaffed, and underfunded.
  — Curbed, 21 Dec. 2022
• AirTags have become helpful to travelers this year as airlines are understaffed, flights get changed and luggage is more likely to get lost.
  — Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News, 17 Aug. 2022
• Records show the prison was understaffed at the time of the escapes and understaffing issues exacerbated under Shinn's watch.
  — Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic, 24 Dec. 2022
• Many hotels remain understaffed, and cruise lines are still struggling with viral outbreaks on board.
  — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
• Across the country, healthcare providers have been pushed to their limits during a pandemic that often left them understaffed, stretched, and overworked.
  — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 24 May 2022
• Many are fed up with the understaffed city police Department, which has its own history of excessive force.
  — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2023
• But when these centers are understaffed and under-resourced, a catchall approach may not be helping students much.
  — Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 12 July 2022
• But players felt their training room was understaffed, while Dallas is one of seven teams that does not offer players first-class seats for travel.
  — Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
• Employees are feeling the weight of being understaffed.
  — Paige Eichkorn, Arkansas Online, 4 Sep. 2023
• That mismatch harms non-degree-holding workers just as much as understaffed companies, and it’s been building for years.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2023
• The bad news is that the agency is said to be chronically understaffed and underfunded, morale is low, and customer service is woeful.
  — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 2 Jan. 2024
• Prison union leaders say Coleman has been understaffed and workers have been pulling extra shifts to the detriment of safety and security.
  — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 12 July 2023
• The Texas legislature forced the city to restore funding, but by then the department had already suffered a mass exodus and is still understaffed.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 25 June 2023
• Einhorn said his former colleagues have been overwhelmed and understaffed.
  — David Spunt, Fox News, 20 Dec. 2022
• Having enough nurses and aides is the strongest predictor of whether nursing home residents will thrive, but many nursing homes are understaffed.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2022
• Such places may be understaffed in terms of personnel, and therefore, will be able to put autonomous parking monitors to good use.
  — Naveen Joshi, Forbes, 28 May 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024