quitting

Example Sentences

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Caregivers also often sacrifice their own jobs by cutting back on work hours, declining promotions or quitting work altogether due to care responsibilities.

From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026

Smoking rates plummeted from their mid-20th-century peaks because “whole groups of people were quitting in concert.”

From Slate • May 15, 2026

"Tonight he erased any doubt of all the negative talk. I'm glad the fight went that way so he could demonstrate this quitting narrative is not right."

From BBC • May 10, 2026

But his girlfriend broke up with him and he decided that quitting his job and sitting in the family hunting cabin in the woods would make him a better suitor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

She knew I wasn’t having an easy time getting along with the girls on the softball team and I had confessed to her that I was thinking about quitting.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad