Example sentences for: severance

How can you use “severance” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Instead, to provide the comfort needed to induce Ovitz to give up his marvelous career as an agent, the compensation committee offered him a severance agreement.

  • Only if he were fired would the severance provisions come into play.

  • The Los Angeles Times , WP , and NYT all cover this ground, but it's the latter that seems particularly attuned to the quantitative details of Mr. Huang's own finances, revealing that he received a "salary of about $90,000 a year and annual bonuses of about $230,000," and that when Huang left Lippo for the Clinton administration, "he was given severance pay of more than $450,000, a figure that included the book value of the company car he was allowed to keep, a 1988 Mercedes Benz."

  • But if Ovitz was truly fired, then his severance pay will be nothing short of awesome.

  • If Ovitz walked out of Disney under his own power, his contract guaranteed him precisely nothing in the way of severance.


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