How to Use unskilled in a Sentence

unskilled

adjective
  • In unskilled hands, this would evoke thoughts of a hoarder house.
    — Samantha Swindler, OregonLive.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Such a large wave could have depressed pay for unskilled work in the cities.
    — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Azubuike was the team’s fourth center even when healthy — just too big, too slow, too unskilled.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 June 2021
  • Cutting the time skilled workers spend on unskilled prep work?
    — al, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Poor people work two or three jobs, unskilled work that doesn’t require a trade.
    — Christian Livermore, Longreads, 11 Oct. 2022
  • So, slow growth in the more-skilled areas, and a decline in this unskilled knife work.
    — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2017
  • But that’s not to say the underarm serve is a tool of the unskilled player.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2020
  • His teeth are crooked and overlapping, like cards fanned out by an unskilled dealer.
    — Elliot Ackerman, Esquire, 23 Mar. 2017
  • Close behind, 39% of the firms with unskilled openings plan hikes.
    — William Dunkelberg, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Many are working in unskilled jobs or professions other than the ones they were trained for.
    — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2020
  • But since the factories closed, work is often unskilled and poorly paid.
    — Katrin Bennhold, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2017
  • Contrary to what some might assume, these visa holders aren’t unskilled labor.
    — Sean Higgins, Washington Examiner, 23 Mar. 2020
  • These depictions of sea life are meticulous and earnest, if unskilled.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 July 2018
  • At a time when an unskilled laborer was earning around £2 per year, that was a pretty hefty sum.
    — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 21 June 2022
  • Why here, exactly, in a city known less for its technical chops than its many unskilled workers?
    — Greg Jefferson, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Mar. 2021
  • That’s why sluggers who are considered too big, too clumsy or too unskilled to play elsewhere end up at first.
    — Michael Cunningham, ajc, 21 June 2017
  • Many are unskilled doing the work that others won’t take, for wages Americans can’t live on.
    — Jonathan Freedman, The Denver Post, 14 Jan. 2017
  • Many of the Afghans don’t speak English and have found physical, unskilled work.
    — Alexander Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Jan. 2023
  • For example, half as many people work as unskilled helpers now than in 1999.
    — Bahaa Chammout, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2025
  • One useful approach is to look at industries that require a lot of unskilled and semi-skilled labour.
    — Aditya Jahagirdar, Quartz India, 28 Oct. 2019
  • This visa is for skilled and unskilled workers, as well as professionals who have at least a four-year college degree.
    — CNN, 19 Aug. 2021
  • In the hands of an unskilled tailor, a beloved dress can fail to match the bride’s vision, or be ruined altogether.
    — Shannon Sims, New York Times, 27 July 2023
  • My boyfriend then took me to an unskilled provider who carried out a surgical procedure on me at 12 weeks.
    — Josephine Sedgwick, New York Times, 9 July 2018
  • This is not an excuse to DIY or bring in an unskilled pro, Hotarek cautions.
    — Jamie Gold, Forbes, 3 May 2022
  • Meanwhile, the women faced with that pool of socially unskilled men have largely been overlooked.
    — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2026
  • More than 300 captive people labored there as both skilled and unskilled workers.
    — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Large numbers of unskilled immigrants can depress wages in certain parts of the economy, at least for a time.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The objection to iconic is not that the meaning has broadened, but that it has been employed by unskilled writers.
    — John E. McIntyre, baltimoresun.com, 26 Aug. 2017
  • In other words, there is room for the global skills gap between highly skilled and unskilled professionals to grow.
    — Wajid Mirza, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • But since then the rate has dropped below 7%, and companies now complain that both skilled and unskilled workers are in short supply.
    — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019

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