How to Use referral in a Sentence

referral

noun
Definition of referralnext
  • The counselor may make a referral to help the child, and perhaps even the aunt.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The request for a bed has to be made through a referral.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2021
  • If that's the case, paying them for a referral might even hurt.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Users can refer up to 20 friends and get $50 for each referral.
    — Ian Firstenberg, Chicago Tribune, 26 Feb. 2023
  • With my referral—and with Annie’s—the surgery was offered as a first option.
    — Alani Vargas, Vogue, 25 May 2021
  • The vote by the full House is the last step before sending the referral to the Justice department.
    — Zachary Cohen and Ryan Nobles, CNN, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Such referrals to the Treasury are required once a loan is 120 days past due, the agency said.
    — Lewis Kamb, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Your credentials and referrals may get you on the shortlist for that new job.
    — Anne Marie Chaker, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2024
  • That might be the right service to offer in exchange for referrals.
    — Fadi Agour, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Last school year, there were three arrests and 39 referrals.
    — Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
  • To date, all of my clients slid into my DMs and every project has been [secured through] word-of-mouth referrals.
    — Sydney Gore, Architectural Digest, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Get referrals from friends and use third-party sources to learn more about what people think of the company.
    — Idalia Garcia, Car and Driver, 9 June 2023
  • Now called the Secure the Border Act, the measure is one of 11 legislative referrals on the ballot this year.
    — Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024
  • In cases where your referral yields a smaller bonus for your friend, the decent thing to do would be to steer them toward the bigger bonus.
    — Nerdwallet, The Mercury News, 22 June 2024
  • This year, there is a bumper crop of ballot referrals from state lawmakers — more than 70.
    — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Once passed, the contempt referral would then be sent to the Justice Department.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The physician warned Brown that his dental problems could affect his health and gave him a referral.
    — Guy Boulton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2021
  • The patient received a referral to see an oral surgeon.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Then, ask for a referral to one person they are connected to.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Talk with your healthcare provider and ask for a referral to a specialist who can help manage your pain long-term.
    — Kelly Burch, Verywell Health, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Companies don’t have to work as hard to sway referrals since word of mouth is persuasive enough.
    — John Hall, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
  • If possible, ask your physician for a referral to a PT.
    — Sara Gaynes Lev, SELF, 30 July 2021
  • If patients don’t have a referral, they can be seen by a True Health provider via telehealth to qualify.
    — Kate Santich, orlandosentinel.com, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Beefing up your referral and loyalty programs is the best place to start.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • In the past, a simple request/referral from a health care provider was all that was needed for a patient to get therapy.
    — David Myles, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
  • But a follow up asking for U.S. comment was met with a no comment and a referral to the United Nations spokesman.
    — Ben Evansky, Fox News, 23 Nov. 2021
  • If that’s not happening, bring it up yourself and ask for referrals.
    — Claire Sibonney, TIME, 4 June 2024
  • But the timing of any vote by the full House, and the willingness of the U.S. attorney’s office to act on the referral, remain uncertain.
    — Colleen Long, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2024
  • And a third group received both the referral and the counseling while also starting on buprenorphine, taken daily as a tablet.
    — Moises Velasquez-Manoff Robert Petkoff Emma Kehlbeck Zak Mouton, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Her interest in the initiative came from a referral from a friend in her department at the university.
    — Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Jan. 2025

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