Sample Sentences for
severance
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(editor-reviewed)

severance as in:  severance pay

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She was disappointed to lose her job, but the company offered generous severance to help with the transition.
severance = layoff pay
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    Employees were given a week's severance pay for each year they had been with the company.
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    To symbolize the complete severance from his previous life, he even adopted a new name.†  (source)
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    "Amanda," she had said recently, "did we give that Mrs. Girt any severance pay?"†  (source)
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    No severance, nothing.†  (source)
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    Why do I feel that there are severances and oppositions in the mind, as there are strains from obvious causes on the body?†  (source)
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    She would call friends to whose faxed condolences she hadn't yet responded; she would call her lawyer about the tedious details of her severance and she would tidy all the other loose ends she'd left hanging last week.†  (source)
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    This new honor came to her after an exciting joint meeting of those societies which threatened to end in violence and the severance of lifelong ties of friendship.†  (source)
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    We are drawing up severance terms that will include a reimbursement of those monies.†  (source)
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    He would get vacation pay and three months' severance.†  (source)
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    He had then suggested that Nancy discontinue "seeing so much of Bobby," advising her that a slow retreat now would hurt less than an abrupt severance later-for, as he reminded her, it was a parting that must eventually take place.†  (source)
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    The labor force was reduced to slavery, and for the first time in many decades management was able to fire people at will without granting any severance pay and to have them thrown in jail for the slightest protest.†  (source)
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    That's a military-oriented city, occupied, preoccupied, with all the military figures of American history, the great soldiers and generals, but you don't see the musicians on parade, although you do have Severance Hall, Cleveland Music School Settlement, Ohio University Bobcats, Buckeyes of Ohio State.†  (source)
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    This is what the farewell tour is really all about—Mia completing the severance she began three years ago.†  (source)
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severance as in:  severance of the relationship

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The severance of diplomatic ties between the two nations came suddenly, leaving ambassadors stranded.
severance = cutting off
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    My father rarely spoke of the past, and perhaps it was only after having officialized his severance from China that he felt free to speak openly of his life there.  (source)
    severance = separation (splitting away)
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    After years of toxic friendship, she felt relief rather than regret at the severance of their bond.†
    severance = act of ending
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