How to Use unemployable in a Sentence

unemployable

adjective
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  • His drug addiction has made him unemployable.
  • Freeze could be subject to a show cause making him unemployable for a period of time.
    — Kevin Scarbinsky, AL.com, 24 July 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • People come into the rooms heartbroken, bruised, unemployable, and in dire need of comfort (and, often, money).
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 19 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • It’s one in which more and more of the unbanked will attain access to credit lines care of the very technological advances that some incorrectly say will render the tired and hungry unemployable.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • As Evan, Wahlberg is attempting to be a kind of everyman here, a maître d’ for high end restaurants who is unemployable after a mental health incident and is worried about paying rent and running out of the pills that keep his mind in check.
    — Lindsey Bahr, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2021
  • 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
  • Their mother, siblings and relatives were shunned and became unemployable.
    — Diane Cole, WSJ, 17 June 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
  • Specifically the styles worn by Rachel Green, the show’s resident fashion plate, who had evolved from an unemployable suburban princess into a polished Ralph Lauren executive by the time series ended its run in 2004.
    — Rory Satran, WSJ, 26 May 2021
  • He’s moody, wounded, seemingly unemployable, and given to secrets.
    — Vogue, 29 May 2021
  • 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
  • The actual results, according to Metzl, were an increase in White deaths because of poor health care, suicide by gun and despair over being uneducated and unemployable.
    — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • Their concern is that this will increase income inequality and create a mass of virtually unemployable people.
    — Ashley Stahl, Forbes, 3 May 2022
  • Andrea came to Wellspring Living addicted to drugs, estranged from her family, desperate and unemployable.
    — David Wickert, ajc, 14 Jan. 2020
  • But writers whose insufficient deference to power rendered them unemployable by The New York Times still had, until recently, hope of finding employment elsewhere.
    — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 7 Nov. 2019
  • But Detroit also has been producing unemployable residents for years.
    — Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Many workers say speaking up often means becoming unemployable.
    — ExpressNews.com, 28 Dec. 2019
  • The population of East Kentucky is one of the unhealthiest, most addicted, prematurely aged—and otherwise unemployable—in America.
    — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Its central character is Diane Lockhart, who retires from her job as managing partner of a big corporate law firm only to get embroiled in a personal and financial crisis that leaves her desperate for work—and virtually unemployable.
    — Alexandra Samuel, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Exposure would likely result in the loss of security clearances, rendering analysts and officers unemployable in the field of intelligence.
    — chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2017

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