How to Use burnout in a Sentence
- Teaching can be very stressful, and many teachers eventually suffer burnout.
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For Dusick, the point of burnout was right around the corner.
— Autumn Micketti, SPIN, 4 May 2023 -
The game is linked to real-world time, which lessens your risk of burnout.
— Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 1 Feb. 2024 -
For them, the challenge can be burnout and lack of resources.
— Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2024 -
While 42% of Gen Xers feel burnout at work, that number drops to 25% for boomers.
— Chloe Berger, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024 -
For a total abs burnout, complete all 18 moves on the list.
— Jordan Galloway, Women's Health, 25 July 2023 -
Knowing the signs of burnout and what to do about it can make a difference.
— Katie Sandler, Sun Sentinel, 30 June 2022 -
If things were like this every day, the burnout would be hard to overcome.
— Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025 -
Shifting away from a state of burnout won’t happen overnight.
— Jia Rizvi, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024 -
But in spite of the massive success, David had started to feel burnout.
— Rachel Desantis, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024 -
Guilt is what drives some in the workforce and can cause burnout and other issues.
— Ebony Williams, ajc, 6 May 2022 -
That can limit the stress and help you to avoid moving from burnout in one career to burnout in the other.
— Ryan Derousseau, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024 -
Mental health and burnout concerns are at an all-time high.
— David Nour, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023 -
If funded, the new pay scale would help address the high rates of turnover and burnout among teachers, O’Neal said.
— Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 12 Apr. 2024 -
When the stress builds to burnout and self-protective shutting down, job search stalls.
— Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 2 Nov. 2024 -
Many left because of health concerns, to care for children or to cope with burnout.
— Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023 -
For a great warmup before a chest workout or a killer burnout to finish one, try out the band chest fly.
— Brett Williams, Men's Health, 7 Dec. 2022 -
True burnout, on the other hand, feels like trying to run with cement blocks tied to your feet.
— King Holder, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2025 -
Be sure to keep your own mental health in mind, though, to avoid caregiver burnout.
— Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 10 Jan. 2025 -
But the sterling work ethic that paved the way for First Aid Kit’s career also formed a deep rut of burnout.
— Victoria Wasylak, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023 -
For adults, it’s become common to name the things that make women more likely to face burnout and stress.
— Jessica Bennett, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023 -
That burnout, Williams says, comes from overzealous parents.
— Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2023 -
Over time, this constant state of alertness can lead to burnout and feelings of overwhelm.
— Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 11 Jan. 2025 -
The pandemic led to a burnout crisis for the health care industry.
— Shawna Chen, Axios, 2 Nov. 2024 -
But even if middle managers stick it out—burnout and all—the trouble keeps coming.
— Jane Thier, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2024 -
As burnout has reared its head, workers and managers alike have struggled.
— Trey Williams, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2024 -
Epidemics don’t pay heed to the burnout of agencies nor their review timelines.
— Robert Kadlec, STAT, 30 Mar. 2023 -
But his four-year sprint to the top of the charts, as well as the onset of the pandemic, left him on the brink of burnout and increasingly anxious.
— Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2022 -
This, coupled with teacher stress and burnout, means that both adults and children in schools are often not getting their social and emotional needs met.
— Gravity Goldberg, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2025 -
Research has shown health care workers reporting higher levels of burnout and poor mental health since the pandemic — though the risks decreased if workers felt supported by their managers.
— Natalie Krebs, NPR, 14 Mar. 2025
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Video showed burned out trucks in the village of Oktyabr’skoe, Kursk.
— Tim Lister, CNN, 17 Aug. 2024 -
The top of the fuselage burned out and the plane tipped over on its side during the fire.
— New York Times, 20 Apr. 2020 -
Their scrawl rushed across the page, as if the words were burning out of them.
— Douglas Stuart, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020 -
If you're burnt out of crossovers, the coupe is the antidote.
— Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2017 -
In New York City, the thing flamed brightly and then burned out.
— refinery29.com, 6 June 2018 -
While the body enjoys the day’s languor, the mind must not burn out.
— Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 4 July 2022 -
Many thought Bridges was burnt out by the end of last season.
— C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 25 June 2024 -
So at the very top of this list is don't burn out your battery.
— USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2022 -
But bands like that tend to burn out or implode, and the Icarus Line did both.
— August Brown, latimes.com, 20 June 2018 -
Do not let this fairy-tale view of the world burn out with age, my dear Pisces moon!
— Glamour, 31 May 2022 -
Fire can be seen still burning, while much of the area is burned out.
— Hallie Jackson, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2023 -
White dwarf stars are the burnt out cores left behind when a star like the Sun dies.
— Fox News, 18 Mar. 2020 -
Once the responders reached the car, the fire had started to burn out.
— oregonlive, 26 Mar. 2021 -
Once people leave the beach, the flames are left to burn out by themselves.
— Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 17 May 2024 -
John ran it into a tall patch of grass and the motor burned out.
— Marni Jameson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 July 2018 -
If the staff burns out, there is a long list of replacements.
— Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023 -
The mortar is so burned out with the salt air, after so many years.
— Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 3 Sep. 2017 -
In these systems, one of the stars is a white dwarf, the burned out but still hot remnant of a star.
— Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2017 -
No one took Shor’s bet, and some asked for a third option: that the sun would burn out first.
— Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2022 -
The car that was parked in front of the property was also burnt out.
— Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025 -
But workers do say that they are burnt out, they are stressed.
— Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024 -
And officials say the flames won't burn out any time soon.
— Christina Maxouris, CNN, 12 Sep. 2020 -
If the fuse is burned out, replace it with a new one of the same amperage.
— Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 24 Oct. 2019 -
To go out and make eight clean runs — burn out to turn out — and take home that win (was special).
— Mike Chambers, The Denver Post, 18 July 2019 -
Many believe Sanders was just burned out on football and ready to be done with the sport.
— Freep.com, 21 July 2019 -
And no one around him is sure what the landscape will look like, when and if all these fires burn out.
— Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Mar. 2018 -
Nanette Krentel, 49, was found dead in the couple's burned out home north of Lacombe.
— Robert Rhoden, NOLA.com, 5 Feb. 2018 -
People got burned out of the same stuff that they were getting fed over and over and over and over and over.
— Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2024 -
Stopping at the right time can be the difference between sustaining performance and burning out.
— John Cairney, Sportico.com, 22 Mar. 2025 -
One lesson that new startup founders must learn is to balance performance and delivery and walk a fine line between stress and pressure without burning out.
— Alison Coleman, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
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