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Beside him was his comrade Nesvitski, a tall staff officer, extremely stout, with a kindly, smiling, handsome face and moist eyes.

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 Meanings and Examples of STAFF
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
staff
 n.  personnel who assist superior to carry out assigned task
Classic Sentence: (126 in 9 pages)
1  The reason why he had entered thus shod was that Plushkin only kept one pair of boots for the whole of his domestic staff.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
2  With some of them, however, Chichikov was altogether unacquainted, since certain substitutes and supernumeraries had to be pressed into the service from among the ranks of the subordinate staff.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
3  Accordingly he raised a turmoil which sent the staff flying.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER X
4  Herewith I will hand over the conduct of your affair to a man who is worth all the rest of the staff put together, and has had a university education.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
5  He was educated at home till he was fourteen, surrounded by cheap tutors, free-and-easy but toadying adjutants, and all the usual regimental and staff set.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
6  He received, however, no appointment to Kutuzov's staff despite all Anna Mikhaylovna's endeavors and entreaties.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X
7  Beside him was his comrade Nesvitski, a tall staff officer, extremely stout, with a kindly, smiling, handsome face and moist eyes.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
8  One can at least be of use on the staff.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
9  On Kutuzov's staff, among his fellow officers and in the army generally, Prince Andrew had, as he had had in Petersburg society, two quite opposite reputations.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III
10  Prince Andrew was one of those rare staff officers whose chief interest lay in the general progress of the war.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III
11  The staff captain, Kirsten, had twice been reduced to the ranks for affairs of honor and had twice regained his commission.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V
12  "You just wait a moment, my dear fellow, and listen," interrupted the staff captain in his deep bass, calmly stroking his long mustache.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V
13  He answered the staff captain's question by a disapproving shake of his head.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V
14  "I did not expect this of you," said the staff captain seriously and severely.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V
15  And the staff captain rose and turned away from Rostov.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V
Example Sentence: (151 in 11 pages)
16  We've been having trouble getting staff.
17  The truth is we can't afford to keep all the staff on.
18  A good company pension scheme remains a potent weapon for attracting staff.
19  In future, staff recruitment will fall within the remit of the division manager.
20  A strike by British Airways ground staff has led to the suspension of flights between London and Manchester.
21  The security staff can see all the outside of the building on their CCTV monitors.
22  The company is being forced to reduce staff and I fear I'm a likely candidate.
23  Materials in the center are organized into three distinct categories: reference, child-use, and staff development.
24  The teaching staff of this college is excellent.
25  Stress at work is a matter of concern to staff and management.
26  We were very concerned to keep the staff informed about what we were doing.
27  The chairman told a news conference that some members of staff would lose their jobs.
28  To begin with, we must consider the faculties of the staff all-sidedly.
29  The more recent members of staff regard the change in corporate culture with a certain indifference.
30  Most schools are extremely unwilling to cut down on staff in order to cut costs.