How to Use part-time in a Sentence

part-time

adjective
  • About 86 percent of the employees work in the stores, and many of them work part-time.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2023
  • But his church asked him to be their part-time youth pastor.
    — Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2023
  • By this time, Mary had found a part-time IT job paying $26 an hour at a law firm.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Jackson, 27, went on to have a strong four-year stint with the Bills as a role player and part-time starter.
    — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The nannies work full-time or part-time and earn the minimum wage of about $7 an hour.
    — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Retired from his job at UPS, he is employed part-time by the city.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Keeping your pool clean can feel like a part-time job during the warmer months.
    — Martha Sorren, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The new market brings 100 part-time and full-time jobs to the area, according to a release.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 15 July 2024
  • At the end of 2017, Ross was still playing music part-time and working as a life coach.
    — Sal Cataldi, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Johnston has been in a part-time role as the team’s fourth wideout behind Williams, Allen and Joshua Palmer.
    — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The Bureau of Labor Statistics counts full-time and part-time jobs as the same (i.e., each equal to one job).
    — Robert Barone, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The Charlotte store will hire about 50 full- and part-time employees.
    — Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 21 May 2024
  • While Arias was having a hard time hitting .200 as a part-time player, the Guardians want to see more of him at SS.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 30 July 2023
  • The prior year, a part-time third traffic lane was opened on the eastbound lower deck.
    — Richard Halstead, The Mercury News, 11 Nov. 2024
  • The pair first met in early 2010, working part-time jobs at the same McDonald's.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 26 July 2024
  • Designers then worked on the projects part-time for six months,instead of the two or three days common in hackathons.
    — Bynicholas Gordon, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2023
  • By contrast, those who work part-time or for only part of the year have a poverty rate of 20.7 percent.
    — Josh Bandoch, National Review, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Third graders who attended full-day preschool showed more gains than those who went part-time.
    — Elisa Cinelli, Parents, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Jeff’s sister Beverly still works part-time at the store.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Moms who don’t have to work numerous part-time jobs to put food on the table have more time to give to their children.
    — Shari F. Shink, The Denver Post, 25 May 2024
  • This includes a quarter of all full-time workers and half of all part-time workers.
    — Ron Shevlin, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Parents of teens are faced with many dilemmas, one of which might be whether or not to allow their kids to work a part-time job.
    — Elisa Cinelli, Parents, 22 Oct. 2024
  • At the time, the mother of two worked as an aide and part-time at Target to help cover her family’s bills.
    — Leslie Postal, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Some vendors will be on-site all season, while others will join in part-time.
    — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Mark O’Hare is a part-time private pilot and survived a plane crash on a seven-seater Piper Seneca in 1999.
    — Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 5 July 2024
  • Wen Parks, who works part-time at a Target in Normal, Ill., said her store has not received any threats.
    — Jaclyn Peiser and Jacob Bogage, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2023
  • Graham retired as a colonel and a part-time attorney for the Air Force Reserve in 2015.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Before the cuts, the main library in Jonesboro had 36 full-time and 14 part-time employees, said Adams.
    — Bill Bowden, arkansasonline.com, 23 Nov. 2023
  • One wondered how students are supposed to get at least 8 hours of sleep, with a full day of school, homework and a part-time job.
    — Joanna Allhands, The Arizona Republic, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Abby, June is perfectly capable of getting a part-time job.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 12 Apr. 2025

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