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.
  • Promotions are based on merit and seniority.
  • He was known as the dean of the House for his seniority.
    — Fox News, 3 Apr. 2022
  • That’s a non-starter for the teachers, which tend to view changes to seniority as an attempt to bust the union.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • Calvin will take nights while dad, who has seniority in more ways than one, works days.
    — Anna Caplan, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Those in higher seniority roles across the board, though, might have a bit more leeway to come in late.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The range and seniority of people who talk about it is striking.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 5 May 2024
  • That was only enough to pay for about a single day's worth of salary for an Army sergeant with about 10-years of seniority.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Young’s rise in seniority and stature did little to smooth his rough edges.
    — Tom Kizzia, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2022
  • The Michael Carter with seniority by an hour or two reached out to his new teammate on Twitter.
    — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 1 May 2021
  • 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
  • Still fairly new at the paper, Procter didn’t have the seniority to take time off but Kingsbury took care of him.
    — Amy Lavalley, chicagotribune.com, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Assignments are based in part on seniority, which Schiff lacks in the Senate despite his long run in the House.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The clip shows the headmaster greet the Wales family in order of seniority starting with William, then Kate and then George, the second in line to the throne.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • At age 86, Feinstein is the oldest member of the Senate, and ranked fifth in terms of seniority.
    — Dustin Gardiner, SFChronicle.com, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Any furloughs would likely hit new hires the hardest since cuts would be based on seniority in unions.
    — Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • Not so long ago, Mr. Mori might have been expected to keep his job solely on the basis of his seniority.
    — New York Times, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Workers with the most seniority would get preference for the open job and would have no less than five days to accept or decline the offer.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 27 May 2021
  • But the family also can’t help but see it as a matter of seniority.
    — USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Even so, their seniority isn’t always enough to bat away the financial blues.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2024
  • No one skips a turn in front, no matter your title, your seniority or your job function.
    — Jason Freedman, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Over time, meanwhile, seniority had moved our seats down to the lower level.
    — Kevin Helliker, WSJ, 2 Feb. 2020
  • No story was too small for her, despite her seniority, having spent nearly three decades in the field.
    — Dalia Hatuqa, CNN, 16 May 2022
  • To fix this, take a moment to consider the seniority level that more adequately aligns with your years of experience.
    — Adunola Adeshola, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024

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