How to Use jobless in a Sentence

jobless

adjective
  • The jobless rate exceeds the U.S. rate of 3.6% in June.
    — Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant, 21 July 2022
  • The jobless rate stood at 3.9% in April, near a 50-year low.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 24 May 2024
  • Among whites, the jobless rate is now just 4.8 per cent.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2021
  • That’s the number of jobless claims last week which fell for the first time in a month.
    — Sergei Klebnikov, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The state’s jobless rate in March dropped slightly to 5.3%.
    — Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • That was the state’s lowest jobless rate since the start of the pandemic.
    — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The jobless rate held steady in June at 3.6 percent, near a 50-year low.
    — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2022
  • In the months leading up to the pandemic, the state's jobless rate was at about 3.7%.
    — Adrienne Roberts, Detroit Free Press, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The nation’s jobless rate is in the midst of a 30-month streak of being at or below 4%.
    — Cnn.com, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
  • The county’s unemployment rate is just 3.1%, the same as the jobless rate for the state.
    — Michael E. Kanell, ajc, 27 Apr. 2022
  • The jobless rate edged up to 3.6%, from 3.4% in the prior month as more Americans looked for work.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The jobless rate fell from 4% last December to 3.6% in May.
    — Jon Hilsenrath, WSJ, 4 July 2022
  • Then 28, Bayne was left jobless and at war with himself.
    — Cole Cusumano, The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Even homeless and jobless, Mr. Coulibaly did not ask for help.
    — New York Times, 21 Mar. 2022
  • As though the jobless and houseless among us are no longer hungry.
    — Benjamin, Longreads, 20 May 2022
  • Utah’s jobless rate was 2.7% in June, second lowest in the U.S.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 July 2021
  • The jobless rate stayed flat in San Mateo County, at 2.8%.
    — Ricardo Cano, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The jobless rate for Asians fell to 4.6 percent from 5.3 percent.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2021
  • The jobless rate is expected to hold steady at 4.1%, near 50-year lows.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The jobless rate rose but not by much The unemployment rate rose from 3.8% to 3.9%.
    — Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2024
  • Each of the nation’s largest metros has seen its jobless rate drop from last year.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022
  • But in Season 3, Cory faltered, perhaps for the first time in his life, and was left jobless by the end of the finale.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2024
  • Wages also grew a stronger-than-expected 4.5%, and the jobless rate stayed in a tight range at 50-year lows.
    — Christine Romans, NBC News, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The improvement marked the first time in nearly two years that the statewide jobless rate decreased.
    — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 21 June 2024
  • The state has seen its jobless rate drop every month since the pandemic high of 13.2% last April.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Urban jobless rate rose to a six-month high, while year-on-year home prices fell at their fastest pace in nine years.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2024
  • That means China now has about 21 million jobless youth in cities and towns.
    — Laura He, CNN, 9 Sep. 2022
  • That means total payments to the jobless could add up to about $1 trillion over 18 months.
    — Cezary Podkul, ProPublica, 26 July 2021
  • That was a bit lower than the national jobless rate of 3.6%.
    — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Ava on the other hand, has gone from a depressed and jobless comedian (season one) to a talented writer and Deborah’s right hand (season three).
    — Ana Osorno, Them., 11 Apr. 2025

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