How to Use entitled in a Sentence

entitled

adjective
  • Many of those in the workforce now also feel entitled to work from home.
    — WSJ, 9 June 2023
  • She was floored by how many people felt entitled to comment on her new size.
    — Angela Haupt, TIME, 12 Sep. 2024
  • There’s no love lost between him and the entitled boys he’s resented since birth.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 11 May 2023
  • People are very entitled and upset when things aren’t going their way.
    — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Sang Young agreed with me—we’re just too neurotic and very entitled.
    — Anton Hur, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 June 2026
  • The average person whose only conveyance is by car is just dumb and entitled.
    — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
  • How cruel that on top of all that, people feel entitled to an explanation.
    — Alison Mann, SELF, 5 Sep. 2025
  • It is caused by people feeling entitled to use violence over their partners.
    — Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, 9 Feb. 2025
  • Who’s entitled to the status remains a subject of contention.
    — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Everybody’s entitled to their own opinion, and some people use that platform to tell their side of things and get the upper hand.
    — Laura Bradley, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The most dangerous locker room in the NFL is an entitled one.
    — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Crew members are trained to deal with troublesome passengers like amorous or entitled couples.
    — Christopher Elliott, Dallas Morning News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Her boss, the owner, is a jerk, a caricature of an entitled Québécois man.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025
  • The message was meant to set boundaries with overzealous fans and spectators who feel entitled to her space or attention.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 27 Mar. 2026
  • But the constant celebrating of life events that are quite frankly, pretty damn entitled, is due for a bit of rebellion.
    — Shani Silver, refinery29.com, 31 May 2024
  • Some of it was characterized by her younger brothers feeling entitled to her money and success.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Having kept cargo flowing during the pandemic, union members feel entitled to a share of it.
    — Peter Tirschwell, WSJ, 6 June 2023
  • Children often feel entitled to inheritance, while friends often earn it.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 21 Feb. 2021
  • But fans didn’t know that, far from his public image, Crosby was an entitled Hollywood rich kid with a moral screw or two loose.
    — Bill Wyman, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2023
  • For some reason, recipients of these government programs also tend to be much more entitled.
    — WSJ, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Feeling happy and whole involves thinking about the needs of others as well as your own, and there’s no room for entitled bullies in an ideal society.
    — Josh Broadwell, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Today’s kids, some at very young ages, seem to feel entitled to talk back, argue, use vulgarity and not listen to authority.
    — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Such is the current state of the world that people are more entitled than ever to a blast of music and merriment, devoid of unsavory downsides.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Enfeebled, Baghdad has left its fate in the hands of upstream neighbours, receiving less than its entitled share of water.
    — Nabil Salih, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Our governor will not bend to the shrill and illogical will of an entitled and reckless super-minority.
    — Divya Kumar, Miami Herald, 8 May 2024
  • Amid the public's obsession with true crime, people with no real-life involvement often feel entitled to the raw details of a personal tragedy.
    — Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Everyone in the organization should feel entitled to rest, support and respect.
    — Mike Weinberger, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2022
  • The workforce’s youngest cohort has been labeled lazy, entitled, and unrelentingly pessimistic by their elders.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 8 June 2026
  • And Panahi Prime can be an entitled and sometimes inconsiderate houseguest.
    — Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The post opened a larger conversation about salary expectations and what workers should feel entitled to ask for when wages fall well below industry standard.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 14 Dec. 2022

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