How to Use unemployed in a Sentence

unemployed

adjective
  • This young man has been unemployed for at least two years.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2025
  • And by the way, up to one in five people will soon be unemployed.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 July 2025
  • All of them have been unemployed the last six months, Ataya said.
    — Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Those who don’t have a job but are looking for one count as unemployed.
    — Paul Wiseman, ajc, 3 Dec. 2021
  • There will always be those who are unemployed through no fault of their own.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Still, thousands have been unemployed for the past year or more.
    — oregonlive, 13 July 2021
  • At its depths, a third of the city’s workforce was unemployed.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • That meant there were more open jobs than there were unemployed people that month.
    — Time, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Even in normal times, the long-term unemployed face steep odds.
    — New York Times, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Around eighty per cent of people are unemployed.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2026
  • She was also laid off last year and has been unemployed for almost a year.
    — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Those unemployed in a rough job market may find more trouble in their love life.
    — Rachel Barber, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Good coaches don’t stay unemployed for long.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 May 2026
  • Inara is unemployed, and the couple doesn’t have a lot of money.
    — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 20 June 2023
  • Of course, victims who are unemployed or self-employed are out of luck.
    — Sacramento Bee, 11 July 2024
  • Half of the adults in the area were unemployed, and no one Pace knew went to college.
    — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 4 July 2021
  • About a fourth of families are made up of a dad who works full-time and a mom who is unemployed.
    — Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 17 June 2026
  • Others were unemployed, but not for lack of trying.
    — Keonna Yearwood-Branch, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 June 2026
  • And the share of the long-term unemployed, who have been out of work for at least six months, has also been on the rise.
    — Tami Luhby, CNN, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Yes, the rote tasks are evaporating and in the mix, many of us will be unemployed.
    — Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The ratio of job vacancies to unemployed is near a record high.
    — Greg Ip, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
  • But then one person just got the best deal of their life, and the other person is unemployed.
    — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 2 Jan. 2022
  • That oathbreaker is now in jail and unemployed.
    — Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Their advice for the millions of young unemployed people who just can’t seem to catch a break?
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2026
  • And yet the stigma faced by the long-term unemployed is powerful.
    — Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2022
  • This is in stark contrast to a record low in unemployed Black workers less than five months ago.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 13 July 2023
  • Four years ago, Lame was unemployed and living with his parents.
    — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 29 Jan. 2026
  • That’s because the aid is supposed to help unemployed people hold out for a job that’s suits them well.
    — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Duprey was unemployed as of a July court filing.
    — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 2 Mar. 2026
  • So, changes in two variables — the number of unemployed and the size of the labor force — can move it up or down.
    — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2024

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