Sentence examples for a sacked from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a sacked" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used in contexts where "sacked" refers to being dismissed from a job, but it should be used as "sacked" without the article "a."
Example: "After the merger, several employees were sacked."
Alternatives: "fired" or "dismissed."

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Seeing the sweat knocked off the face of a sacked quarterback could be a thrill.

Nor, echoing Clement Attlee's terse retort to a sacked minister, was he up to the job.

In Wolf, Jack Nicholson plays a sacked publisher who becomes a werewolf.

Just last month, a sacked postman sued the Royal Mail for unfair dismissal.

Tony Leung plays a sacked newspaper editor who seduces prostitutes, one of whom lives in room 2046 of a hotel.

A sacked CEO, says Tom Neff, chairman of Spencer Stuart and doyen of America's recruiters of chief executives, "may be literally unemployable".

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It is the sort of comment which, in a different context, at a different club, could get a manager sacked and hardly sent out the most positive message to Peter Kenyon, Garry Cook or whoever's consortium is supposedly the latest frontrunner to buy out Ashley and assume control of Newcastle in the new year.

Libya has backed his regime since last year, in return for a 99-year monopoly on extracting the republic's vast reserves of diamonds, gold and other minerals.Reports suggest that the rebels are supporters of a popular sacked army chief, François Bozizé, a former Patassé loyalist with a grudge and presidential ambitions.

People today complain about the squeeze on living standards, but it is far better that everyone in a job share some of the pain than for it to fall on a few sacked people – usually the last to join an organisation, and therefore the young.

Unfortunately, only four or five of Mr. Kiefer's large paintings are seen in this show, the most recent not among them, but there's enough here to reveal his dour, compelling vision of a past sacked and pillaged by the present.

Guler, who like Erdogan had called the case baseless and a plot, sacked or reassigned dozens of police officers involved including the chief of the force in Istanbul.

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