How to Use profession in a Sentence

profession

noun
  • The doctor talked to students who are thinking about entering the profession.
  • Most professions in the medical field require years of training.
  • Their daughter recently became a member of the medical profession.
  • Bob was a friend to many in the sports profession and will be deeply missed.
    — Ethan Westerman, arkansasonline.com, 5 Dec. 2024
  • In the tradition of the profession, Rock went on with the show.
    — Roy S. Johnson | [email protected], al, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The printing trade was his start, the profession that made him.
    — Adam Smyth, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2024
  • These are the professions with the highest rates of substance abuse.
    — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The same impulses that drove him to scale the heights of his profession are what doomed him.
    — Vulture, 4 Feb. 2024
  • There is a part of me that wants to make things better in my profession.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023
  • What might this sort of profession-wide action look like on the ground?
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Waldrip said the burden of the test is one of the main reasons teachers are leaving the profession.
    — Dallas News, 16 Feb. 2023
  • So farming became a profession that stood at the cradle of what is now the EU.
    — Raf Casert, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
  • In this profession, right, there’s a lot of ways to skin a cat, in all the different areas.
    — Mike Rodak | [email protected], al, 31 May 2022
  • Noticing the tools and lumber in the truck bed, Rowe asked his driver about his profession.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 14 Dec. 2023
  • A lot of ink has been spilled on work-life balance as of late, but does that exist in this profession?
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Yet the profession has seen its labor force plummet while the number of herds of their four-legged clients have soared.
    — Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
  • There’s something to be said for having someone who isn’t in the profession and who is not afraid to ask the questions.
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 July 2022
  • This was a brilliant coaching job by Golden, one of the young stars of his profession.
    — Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Think for a moment about the professions in which people have the least amount of confidence.
    — Byron Harlan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2023
  • His younger brother Robert has the same profession and taught second-graders.
    — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 14 July 2024
  • And 75% of those who intend on leaving the profession within the same time period felt the same.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2023
  • And that’s not to say that everyone that’s been released, and that’s not just pro wrestling, that’s any profession.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2025
  • Because of the high cost of the rental units, the types of professions the clients had and the price of the services, authorities believe the brothels are high-end.
    — Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
  • In a profession judged by wins and losses, Richardson’s 6-7 record as a starter will only add to the list of concerns.
    — Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2023
  • People who are in the legal profession told me not to do Survivor.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Six years ago, Staci Crosswell joined the ranks of the teaching profession to do one thing: make a difference.
    — Brian Lopez and Jason Beeferman, San Antonio Express-News, 4 June 2022
  • Jane is here to mark how far Eli eventually strays from the norms of his profession.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Nearly 12% of them left the profession that year, up from about 10% in other recent years.
    — Talia Richman, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Providers are leaving the profession, and those of us who remain are struggling.
    — Lourdes Urena, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2022
  • Gates claimed that coders, energy experts, and biologists are the only professions safe from AI in the next decade.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025

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