rota

Example Sentences

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On Mondays, Tickner is on a cover rota, meaning she may have to take over a different lesson to that which she had planned to teach.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

Alongside critical care practitioners are highly-trained consultants who cover the shifts on a rota basis in addition to their NHS hospital roles, each of them a specialist in "pre-hospital emergency medicine".

From BBC • Jul. 31, 2025

The volunteers work on a four-week rota and take time to cut and sort out all the stories from two copies of each paper while being careful not to duplicate anything.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2025

“I don’t think it should be a rota, I think this should be the national championship every single year,” said Klatt, the former Colorado quarterback turned Fox college football analyst.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2025

He’d shown us a list of chores when we’d first arrived, and the students who were already there—“the veterans,” as Hannah called them—had long since worked out a rota which we kept to conscientiously.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro