How to Use seniority in a Sentence

seniority

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  • He has worked here longer than I have, so he has seniority over me.
  • He was known as the dean of the House for his seniority.
    — Fox News, 3 Apr. 2022
  • The Times has a seniority clause, which puts the most recent hires on the chopping block first when cuts would have to be made.
    — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The range and seniority of people who talk about it is striking.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 5 May 2024
  • 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
  • Now Spearing has more seniority than any of her colleagues, most of whom have been working for IU Health for less than a year.
    — Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • Many would lose seniority and pension benefits, and Luma could change their health plans.
    — Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2021
  • One of those white workers was Weber, who had more seniority than nearly all of the Black workers chosen.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • The oldest rights holders have seniority, and when the state restricts water use in times of drought, these senior rights holders are last to be curtailed, if at all.
    — Ari Plachta, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2021
  • When comparing women and men with the same job title, seniority level and hours worked, a gender gap of 11% still exists in terms of take-home pay.
    — Kalina Bryant, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Warren could have stopped the bill with his seniority position, according to Reza.
    — Rey Covarrubias Jr., The Arizona Republic, 26 May 2024
  • Each license holder is assigned a quota, ranging from four pounds to more than a hundred, based partly on seniority.
    — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 19 June 2024

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