How to Use unemployed in a Sentence

unemployed

adjective
  • For the first time in a year, Ethan Hawke is unemployed.
    — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • At its depths, a third of the city’s workforce was unemployed.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • All of them have been unemployed the last six months, Ataya said.
    — Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Inara is unemployed, and the couple doesn’t have a lot of money.
    — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 20 June 2023
  • 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
  • Even in normal times, the long-term unemployed face steep odds.
    — New York Times, 15 Dec. 2021
  • How could the Ohio Supreme Court fill the pockets of Ohioans who were unemployed this year with extra cash?
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Those who don’t have a job but are looking for one count as unemployed.
    — Paul Wiseman, ajc, 3 Dec. 2021
  • But then one person just got the best deal of their life, and the other person is unemployed.
    — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 2 Jan. 2022
  • And yet the stigma faced by the long-term unemployed is powerful.
    — Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2022
  • The number of people who have been unemployed for 15 weeks or more is up by about 20% since then, as well.
    — Rob Wile, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024
  • This is in stark contrast to a record low in unemployed Black workers less than five months ago.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 13 July 2023
  • An unemployed Gyeom is there, causing the kind of trouble that makes Mu-bee smile.
    — Kayti Burt, TIME, 14 Feb. 2025
  • While 13% of the people who made career change left a job and want a new one, 11% of the people who left a job are unemployed by choice.
    — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The neighbor is 41, unemployed and spends all of his time smoking pot and playing video games.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 29 Apr. 2022
  • She was also laid off last year and has been unemployed for almost a year.
    — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Now, at 20, Margo is alone with an infant, unemployed, and on the verge of eviction.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Now, at 20, Margo is alone with an infant, unemployed, and on the verge of eviction.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The ratio of job vacancies to unemployed is near a record high.
    — Greg Ip, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Of course, victims who are unemployed or self-employed are out of luck.
    — Sacramento Bee, 11 July 2024
  • Many crafts workers have been unemployed since the strikes last year, if not before, and can’t afford to be out of work for longer.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 17 July 2024
  • During the first year of the pandemic, the number of long-term unemployed rose to more than four million.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2022
  • At the same time, the unemployed don’t appear to be having much trouble finding a new gig.
    — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The growth in spending comes as the number of job openings in the U.S. far exceeds the number of unemployed workers.
    — Suzanne Vranica, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2022
  • At the same time, the number of unemployed people dropped from ten million to six million.
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
  • One in three working-aged South Africans are unemployed — the highest jobless rate in the world among countries tracked by the World Bank.
    — Douglas MacMillan, Washington Post, 11 July 2022
  • Ryan, 27 and unemployed, was armed with a Chinese copy of an AK-47 and a variety of other guns.
    — Morgan Coates, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The big picture: The precise number of federal workers who will end up unemployed isn't known — some firings are tied up in court.
    — Emily Peck, Axios, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Even as the economy began to bounce back and the number of claims declined, complaints about the bureaucracy unemployed Coloradans must negotiate to pay their bills haven’t subsided.
    — Jessica Alvarado Gamez, The Denver Post, 23 Mar. 2025

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