How to Use entitlement in a Sentence

entitlement

noun
  • Black high tops, had his own style and no sense of entitlement.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2022
  • There’s no p—k (in him), none of that b—s— entitlement to him.
    — David Aldridge, New York Times, 19 June 2025
  • What is not okay is to make ridiculous demands of a concierge or to present an air of entitlement.
    — Rebecca Deurlein, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
  • For their part, Erik and Lyle are a grotesque blend of entitlement and prey.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 19 Sep. 2024
  • There is a sense of entitlement that has caused a lack of respect for adults, peers, and our country.
    — Renata Cló, The Arizona Republic, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The era of entitlement, which has plagued this franchise for at least a decade, has ended.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 2 June 2026
  • One issue is the idea of entitlement.
    — Brande Victorian, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The first problem is that this is a new suburban entitlement, not aid to the needy.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 May 2021
  • For a player just past his teens to show that entitlement at Real is unique.
    — Henry Flynn, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Patients who are on the mend sometimes sell unused blood entitlements to those who are still ill.
    — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
  • There’s a line between entitlement and shame.
    — Andrea Mandell, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Children of the wealthy have often been coddled and have a sense of entitlement.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Scottsdale should never cater to the entitlement of few, at the expense of many.
    — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
  • Haley has most openly stuck with the pre-Trump view of entitlements.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • But the headline is a new entitlement for 57 million renters that would push prices up, not down.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 June 2019
  • Plenty of pop stars have been driven offline by their fans’ entitlement.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2026
  • But that was before the rise of the entitlement state and its growing claims on tax revenue to pay retirees.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Land entitlement can take 12 to 36 months before a deal even starts to take shape.
    — Cody Bjugan, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Seniors depend on this entitlement that each of them has paid into for their golden years.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Baird said there will be up to a year of the planning and entitlement process before construction can start.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 3 Sep. 2021
  • This is the kind of arrogant survival of the fittest entitlement that says their pleasure is worth more than your life.
    — Tony Bravo, SFChronicle.com, 15 Jan. 2021
  • The lack of entitlement and pretense is instructive if you’ve been raised on the major-league game.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 19 Nov. 2019
  • That entitlement already took a hit due to the shortage in Lake Mead this year.
    — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Most Democrats favor a payroll tax or a new entitlement to fund parental leave and child care programs.
    — USA Today, 3 Dec. 2019
  • What’s more, the women best positioned to act from a sense of entitlement are rarely those who suffer most from its lack.
    — Nora Caplan-Bricker, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2020
  • With the move had come better prospects, and living quarters that were available as per pay-scale entitlement.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
  • An entitlement to make and uphold the rules, to make America great again.
    — NBC News, 10 Nov. 2021
  • For veterans with full entitlement, there are no loan limits.
    — Bruce Helmer, Twin Cities, 8 Nov. 2025
  • But this story is about more than Patel’s entitlement.
    — Jon Duffy, Twin Cities, 27 May 2026
  • The sense of entitlement that comes with the tour circus can block the rationale of what is acceptable.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024

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