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How to use the word quitting in a Sentence?

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I had great, great times as a Little League coach, people were talking about me quitting acting, and they would say, 'What about your creative juices?' Coaching is creative, because you could take a kid who thought he wasn't any good and, within four minutes, change his mind. And I didn't have to wait six months for them to put music to it.

James Caan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I had great, great times as a Little League coach, people were talking about me quitting acting, and they would say, ‘What about your creative juices?’ Coaching is creative because you could take a kid who thought he wasn’t any good and, within four minutes, change his mind. And I didn’t have to wait six months for them to put music to it.

James Caan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Repo rate has got nothing to do with share price. whenever brokers find that investors are quitting the share market this repo rate drama announcement becomes a reason to pull up prices to attract more fool traders

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheishmpatel_2
1 year ago

Liberal reporters frankly supported the mandate, so they never did much digging. But as of January, there were 31,000 fewer full-time airline workers than before COVID. And while we were told pretty much everyone was complying, it turns out a lot of people were also quitting or retiring early, it's gotten so bad that JetBlue is basically begging flight attendants to take on some open shifts. Alaska Airlines is paying double to take on extra work, but it was the number of retiring pilots that is the most alarming. Obviously, no pilots means no flights.

Oliver Contreras/Pool/Sipa

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's been a lot of press coverage about people quitting their jobs, well, today's report tells you why – Americans are moving up to better jobs. This is the kind of recovery I promised and hoped for, for the American people.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I guess it could have gone either way after the second but we’re standing here again, leaving with no points, we’re not quitting on anyone. We’re not quitting on the coach, we’re not quitting on ourselves, or the team, the players, the goalies, nobody. Eventually you have to find a way to turn it around and obviously we’re hurting now with key players out. We’ve just got to figure it out.

Leon Draisaitl

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Workers continued to quit their jobs at a historic rate. The low-wage sectors directly impacted by the pandemic continued to be the source of much of the elevated quitting.

Nick Bunker

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The pace of people quitting across the labor market is remarkable, but the concentration among a few sectors is eye-popping. Quits are up the most in sectors where most work is in person or relatively low paying.

Nick Bunker

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The pace of people quitting across the labor market is remarkable.

Nick Bunker

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Our drivers nearly broke. They were all on the verge of quitting.

Tracy Bloemer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I was always holding his hand so some days I would hold his hand and say, squeeze it if you want me to grab you a water or do something else for you, some days he was n’t able to talk so he would just squeeze my hand. And I was down on boxing. I was thinking about quitting. I was like, what did I get Ali Walsh into. But he pushed me forward. And I still remember that moment to this day.

Ali Walsh

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Quitting is the best option, but for those who don't, science and technology has allowed Philip Morris like ours to create better alternatives to continued smoking.

Moira Gilchrist

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Under Japanese labour law, if you are a permanent employee, refusing a job transfer or other job assignment is the same as saying that you are quitting, it’s so commonplace that people just think it’s normal.

Rochelle Kopp

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Of course I thought about quitting at The New York Times, but I just kept going because I liked the process so much, your attitude after bombing distinguishes the comics who are the real deal from the comics who aren't the real deal.

Ali Wong

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Many women are downsizing their hours, they’re quitting their jobs in entirety and going on food stamps or moving in with their parents or taking on the night shift, it is causing huge economic consequences for women.

Reshma Saujani

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Acknowledge that relapse is normal when trying to change any behavior, including quitting vaping, it's important to learn from what worked and what didn't work during past quit attempts and to try to quit again.

Jennifer Dahne

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Given that the rate of long-term success in quitting tends to be low, this is very unlikely to translate to a million fewer smokers in the UK, which would be a large decline in prevalence, at this relatively early stage of the pandemic, we don't yet have a great deal of information on its impact on smoking and quitting behavior. Other data sources are not yet showing evidence of a large drop in smoking prevalence ; it will be interesting to see if a substantial decline in smoking becomes evident over the coming months, and if so, whether this translates to a sustained reduction in the number of smokers in the UK.

Sarah Jackson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Are you feeling overwhelmed? Do you want to break free from the shackles presented by the rigours of daily life? Do you dream of getting away from it all, going for a vacation, or simply quitting? The solution is not quitting. Abandoning the duties of life will not help you find peace of mind. What you need is to learn to manage all the aspects of your life well. Increase your capability, and you will never feel like quitting again.

Prashant Agarwal

added by prashantagarwal
3 years ago

It scared me into quitting.

Megan Constantino

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I don't know about tougher (than the men), we didn't have the option of quitting or cutting it short. We rode all the way up to Tignes and it was absolutely chucking it down, it was really dangerous, but we rode through it.

Louise Gibson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Quitting tobacco is one of the best things any person can do for their own health.

Tedros Adhanom

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Most of the time the only difference between winning and losing is not quitting.

Anmol Andore

added by anmolandore
4 years ago

I think its not quitting. We have a lot of competitive guys who dont want to lose. I think we dont want to lose more than we like to win which is weird, we just didnt want to have the excuse that we lost because of four overtimes, because we were tired.

Nikola Jokic

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Quitting is the only thing that really brings permanent failure.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
5 years ago

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