How to Use unemployable in a Sentence

unemployable

adjective
  • His drug addiction has made him unemployable.
  • But then Markey began to have the usual doubts of an unemployable hack.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Freedman warned Mizuhara will face greater shame in Japan and be unemployable.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 6 Feb. 2025
  • This is what failure looks like, unemployable yahoos who join a mob and demand people with jobs just give up.
    — Fox News, 8 Aug. 2018
  • Among the large swathes of college graduates, most are deemed unemployable (pdf).
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Yes, these can get expensive—but not compared with feeding your unemployable child for the next 30 years.
    — Alexandra Samuel, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Just a few years back, there was never-ending talk of how automation would steal jobs and render half the world unemployable.
    — Serenity Gibbons, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Record reform is crucial, as even nonviolent, low-level charges can make a person unemployable for the rest of their lives.
    — Andrew Ward, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The outcome may be both many unemployable graduates and a massive labor shortage.
    — Allison Schrager, Twin Cities, 2 Dec. 2025
  • No one has suggested that they should be fired or rendered unemployable by the NBA for those opinions.
    — Brian Flood, Fox News, 22 June 2018
  • People come into the rooms heartbroken, bruised, unemployable, and in dire need of comfort (and, often, money).
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Their mother, siblings and relatives were shunned and became unemployable.
    — Diane Cole, WSJ, 17 June 2022
  • Many workers say speaking up often means becoming unemployable.
    — ExpressNews.com, 28 Dec. 2019
  • But here was Carol, a huge success, a Tony winner, a Hollywood legend—who had once been an unemployable mess like me.
    — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 15 Jan. 2019
  • That gain, it is argued, would justify the sacrifice of the minority who became unemployable.
    — Larry Elder, Orange County Register, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Minimum wage makes many of the least productive and most disadvantaged workers unemployable.
    — Matthew Lau, National Review, 31 May 2023
  • But Detroit also has been producing unemployable residents for years.
    — Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Their concern is that this will increase income inequality and create a mass of virtually unemployable people.
    — Ashley Stahl, Forbes, 3 May 2022
  • Some fear that this is the beginning of a worrying trend, where automation leaves ever greater numbers of people structurally unemployable.
    — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2017
  • This question brings us to the case of Eric Reid who, like his former teammate Kaepernick, was a productive player who now appears unemployable.
    — Andrew Brandt, SI.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Turn employed lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into the legally unemployable.
    — Suzanne Gamboa, NBC news, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Along those lines, the memorandum asserts Mizuhara is essentially unemployable.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 24 Jan. 2025
  • While numbers of workers were actively engaged in the rebuilding of the cities as well as the factories and services that powered the economy, there were as many more who were unemployed and unemployable for the time being.
    — Nan Randall, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Jurors seated for such a long and life-disrupting stint are likely to be unemployed, unemployable, retired, or laborers for large corporations that will pay them during their absence, say experts.
    — Bill Hochberg, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Andrea came to Wellspring Living addicted to drugs, estranged from her family, desperate and unemployable.
    — David Wickert, ajc, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Unemployable older citizens are, for the most part, entitled to the generous benefits of the western German social-welfare system.
    — Carol J. Williams, The Seattle Times, 16 June 2017
  • Qualified lawyer and once aspiring academic and utterly unemployable.
    — Michael Hofmann, The New York Review of Books, 22 July 2021
  • Depp has denied ever striking Heard and testified that the abuse allegations, named or unnamed, are fabrications that have destroyed his life and reputation, and left him unemployable.
    — Sean Piccoli, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2022
  • Reporters sacked under government pressure become unemployable.
    — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
  • While a swath of the population may become unemployable, the uptake of work by machines and computers will fuel demand for leisure among those who can afford it, according to the 66-year-old luxury magnate.
    — Thomas Mulier, Bloomberg.com, 19 May 2017

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