How to Use quit in a Sentence
- We're going to quit for the day. It's too hot to keep working.
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But according to sources at the firm, per the Times, not enough workers have quit since.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 2 Apr. 2024
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Eight of the initial group have quit or asked to be reassigned.
—Bhopi Dhall and Saurajit Kanungo, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
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The couple called it quits in 2004 after three years of dating.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 15 Feb. 2024
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But just one month after getting married, the two called it quits.
—Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2023
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Nicki Nicole and Peso Pluma have appeared to call it quits.
—Griselda Flores, Billboard, 13 Feb. 2024
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There were no losers...except those who quit or cheated.
—Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024
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At least two of his employees quit in the past year because of crime in the area, Maupillier said.
—Emily Davies, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
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The number doubled for those who intended to quit but hadn’t yet done so.
—Berry Wang, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
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Yet few families or places can quit the car just like that; such a drastic move would bring life to a halt.
—Curbed, 29 Nov. 2023
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However, the couple called it quits in 2012, and Heard restored her name.
—Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2023
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The move was first announced last year by Health Canada and is aimed at helping people quit the habit.
—Rob Gillies, ajc, 1 June 2023
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Lofton quit working in her late 40s, spent much of her time drinking and moved in with her father, Houston said.
—Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 3 June 2023
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That number dwindled to nine after three wrestlers quit.
—Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
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Changes could include quitting, not taking a new job, changing hours and more.
—Megan Banta, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
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An audit last year found that nearly half of new DCS workers quit within their first year.
—Paige Pfleger, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2023
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Irwin is the second head of trust and safety to quit Twitter during Musk’s tenure.
—Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 2 June 2023
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New doctor Cameron quits after things get awkward with Mel.
—Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 13 May 2023
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For example, if new hires are quitting at a faster rate in their first three months on the job, your onboarding process may need work.
—Amber Burton, Fortune, 6 June 2023
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Ron Howard had a mind to quit when producers considered changing the name of Happy Days.
—Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 15 Jan. 2024
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Kristin Cagney quit her finance job to follow her thirst for adventure.
—Deanna Taylor, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
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But my partner was once a heavy, longtime smoker (who has since quit and now takes excellent care of his health).
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 14 June 2023
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And fewer people are quitting jobs in search of higher pay elsewhere.
—Christopher Rugaber, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Sep. 2023
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That taste of stand-up prompted Iglesias to quit his well-paying cellphone salesman job.
—Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
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Butcher had to quit that race but went on to win four Iditarods.
—CBS News, 5 Mar. 2024
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The lessons of the album, both from its production and content, can teach entrepreneurs a great deal about quitting their job and going solo.
—Paul Fitzgerald, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2023
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Muhammad Ali won his first fight with Sonny Liston when Liston quit at the beginning of the seventh round.
—WSJ, 6 Dec. 2023
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Newman’s refusal to quit on anyone else’s terms served her early in her career.
—Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 5 June 2023
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Dong quit the Liberal caucus last year and sits as an independent.
—Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
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Young adults lead vape sales, even though the product was originally intended to help users quit cigarette smoking.
—Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 10 Apr. 2024
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Have her sign and then file a quit-claim deed to get her name off the deed.
—orlandosentinel.com, 11 Nov. 2021
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And even when the show is quiet, there’s no quit in it.
—James Hebert, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2019
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The Knights took the 13-0 lead into the half, but the Patriots had no quit.
—Randy McRoberts, Baltimore Sun, 16 Sep. 2022
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The Frogs didn’t get the job done, but one thing is clear: there’s no quit in Duggan.
—Dallas News, 3 Dec. 2022
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As Zac Taylor likes to say, there is no quit in this team.
—Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 4 Nov. 2019
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The nationwide quit rate increased to 2.9% of the workforce.
—Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2021
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There is no quit in these Sun Devils, which has to please fans.
—Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2022
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The quit rate represents a vast jump over the 1.6% seen during the height of the pandemic.
—cleveland, 22 June 2021
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That's far higher than the quit rate across all sectors, which was 2.7% in June.
—Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 25 Aug. 2021
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Dan Campbell's charges showed there'd be no quit in them ...
—Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2021
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To be sure, the data represents just one month and the quit rate in each state could change from month to month.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2021
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Overall, the quit rate for all non-farm jobs fell slightly from the month before.
—Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 30 Aug. 2022
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The school’s nurse quit in June because the school hadn’t paid her since December.
—Josh Verges, Twin Cities, 10 July 2019
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Even when Notre Dame took a 28-14 lead in the third quarter, there was no quit on Louisville's sideline.
—Gentry Estes, The Courier-Journal, 2 Sep. 2019
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Early last spring, one of the two teachers for Landon’s class of 20 quit.
—USA Today, 9 Feb. 2020
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The outside counsel who was leading the case quit and the CDAA has no funds to replace him.
—Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 13 Jan. 2021
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Don’t allow the high national quit rate to keep you up at night.
—Serenity Gibbons, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
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Some have suggested that the Wildcats quit late in the second half.
—Michael Lev, azcentral, 4 Nov. 2019
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The recent quit rate is also down from the 2.9% recorded in August.
—Cleveland Business Journal, cleveland, 9 Dec. 2021
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There’s no quit in Aaron Filips and the Highland offense.
—cleveland, 28 Aug. 2021
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But such worker churn has since fallen from its fever pitch—the quits rate has dropped back to its 2019 rate.
—Jane Thier, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2023
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What are your reasonable hopes? .500 ball, and no quit.
—Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 29 Mar. 2023
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The states are broken out in two categories: those with the highest quit rates, and those with the lowest.
—Jasmine Browley, Essence, 25 May 2022
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The last female assistant coach quit in 2016 because of poor pay, the suit says.
—John Wawrow, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2019
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Sroufe, who apparently does not know the meaning of the word quit, once again asked the judge to set aside the verdict.
—Jack Greiner, Cincinnati.com, 9 July 2019
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The mother signed a quit claim to give her son the house anyway and died shortly afterward.
—Liz Weston, Dallas News, 4 Apr. 2020
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The quit rates, and the number of quits, increased month-over-month in 14 states, including Kentucky.
—Ben Tobin, The Courier-Journal, 26 Oct. 2021
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Dismissals of star teammates were the least likely to inspire more quits.
—Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 5 May 2023
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Even though Emily stayed because of Hannah's quit, that wasn't on us.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2023
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Below, Jeff Probst weighs in on all of that and more from the premiere, including whether Hannah's actions count as a quit.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2023
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