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How to use hire in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Hire means a person who has been hired, especially in a cohort. Example: “We pair up each of our new hires with one of our original hires.”

Examples of hire by meaning

nounA person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.

  • We pair up each of our new hires with one of our original hires.
  • Employment statistics, the other key indicator of Diversity & Inclusion performance, shows that almost 30% of new Southeastern hires are women.2024 February 21, Nick Brodrick, “Inclusion and development for all”, in RAIL, number 1003, page 62

nounThe state of being hired, or having a job; employment.

  • When my grandfather retired, he had over twenty mechanics in his hire.

nounPayment for the temporary use of something.

  • The sign offered pedalos on hire.

verbTo obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.

  • We hired a car for two weeks because ours had broken down.
  • But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

verbTo employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.

  • The company had problems when it tried to hire more skilled workers.

verbTo exchange the services of for remuneration.

  • They hired themselves out as day laborers. They hired out their basement for Inauguration week.

verbTo accomplish by paying for services.

  • After waiting two years for her husband to finish the tiling, she decided to hire it done.

verbTo accept employment.

  • They hired out as day laborers.

More sentences with hire

  • His lieutenants hired a team of miners to help spring him.From the entry spring
  • The company claims it has hired several minorities since the complaint was lodged.From the entry minority
  • Extra security was hired to police the crowd at the big game.From the entry police
  • Let the new hire do that project so she can get her feet wet.From the entry get one's feet wet
  • I would rather hire a talented layman than a university graduate with borderline qualifications.From the entry borderline
  • Your records will sound a lot better if you hire a good sound engineer.From the entry sound engineer
  • I had some misgivings about hiring someone so young, but it has worked out well.From the entry misgivings
  • If you hire some no-name for the job, be sure to check references.From the entry no-name
  • She hired a snoop to find out if her husband was having an affair.From the entry snoop
  • He plans to hire somebody to do the grunt work of digging the trenches for the pipes.From the entry grunt work
  • They really put each candidate through the wringer before choosing one to hire.From the entry put through the wringer
  • I really hit it off with Jack, and hired him without needing an interview.From the entry hit it off
  • There’s no way we can hire that guy. He’s a total burnout—he can't do the work.From the entry burnout
  • They hoped to hire only the cream of the crop for the new project team.From the entry cream of the crop
  • Yoni was hired as the shul's cantor, but he has a very rabbinic attitude.From the entry rabbinic
  • His subprofessional workmanship led me to decide to never hire him again.From the entry subprofessional
  • There won't be any other new hires starting at the same time, to his knowledge.From the entry to one's knowledge
  • I'm sick of having to hand-hold every new person we hire. Why can't we train them first?From the entry hand-hold
  • He used a hired muscle to remove the unruly from the audience.From the entry hired muscle
  • We try to hire people who are a known quantity in the field of human interface design.From the entry known quantity
  • The chemistry department hired me to write batches of questions for a testbank.From the entry testbank
  • He got hired to merchandise some new sporting goods lines.From the entry merchandise
  • Hiring practice is very bad in this company.From the entry bad
  • He was so good, they hired him on the spot.From the entry so
  • They hired a nurse to care for their young boy.From the entry nurse
  • Please hire a vendor to put these boxfuls of slides under a scanner and convert them all to digital images.From the entry slide
  • Nick hired a navy-blue suit for the wedding.From the entry suit
  • Most of the hired help is seasonal, for the harvest.From the entry help
  • The mobsters hired the guy to knock off their enemies.From the entry knock off
  • It wasn't too bad but we did hire an auto (couldn't imagine changing gears with my right hand).From the entry auto

Meaning of hire

  1. noun A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
  2. noun The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.
  3. noun Payment for the temporary use of something.

Full definition of hire

Questions about hire in a sentence

How do you use hire in a sentence?
Hire is used as a noun and verb. For example: “We pair up each of our new hires with one of our original hires.”
What is a short sentence with hire?
“The sign offered pedalos on hire.”
What does hire mean?
Hire means a person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hire (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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