How to Use entitled in a Sentence

entitled

adjective

• Many of those in the workforce now also feel entitled to work from home.
  — WSJ, 9 June 2023
• There’s no love lost between him and the entitled boys he’s resented since birth.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 11 May 2023
• Then, once they’re hired, Gen Z workers tend to behave in an entitled way (60%) and are hard to manage well (26%), among other things.
  — Mark C. Perna, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• Who’s entitled to the status remains a subject of contention.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• People are very entitled and upset when things aren’t going their way.
  — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• But fans didn’t know that, far from his public image, Crosby was an entitled Hollywood rich kid with a moral screw or two loose.
  — Bill Wyman, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2023
• In comes Statham, the white knight of the middle class, whose real purpose in life is to defend the most vulnerable group in society from the entitled hipsters.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 12 Jan. 2024
• The 2020s are an era when the public feels more entitled to its artists than ever, while at the same time feminist strides have made it so that people are at least aware that the internet hates women.
  — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 26 Feb. 2021
• The series flits without warning from the past to the present, there are many characters to keep up with and Dan’s entitled attitude and actions are boring and predictable.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 29 Apr. 2023
• The lawsuit illustrates a challenge faced by women around the world: That men sometimes feel entitled to their affection.
  — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
• Having kept cargo flowing during the pandemic, union members feel entitled to a share of it.
  — Peter Tirschwell, WSJ, 6 June 2023
• On the other side, people paint a picture of an entitled liberal, just trying to get attention.
  — Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Feb. 2021
• Today’s kids, some at very young ages, seem to feel entitled to talk back, argue, use vulgarity and not listen to authority.
  — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
• One of my top priorities is to ensure that Los Angeles will no longer be a hunting ground for Hollywood elite who feel entitled to prey on women.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 28 Dec. 2023
• Amid the public's obsession with true crime, people with no real-life involvement often feel entitled to the raw details of a personal tragedy.
  — Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2023
• In that regard, Domont is squarely on the side of ambitious if imperfect women often saddled by entitled men.
  — Tomris Laffly, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Feb. 2023
• And Marsden's exaggerated portrayal of an entitled Hollywood jerk trying to use his fame to get out of his civic duty was just the cherry on top to sell the bit even further.
  — James Marsden Published, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2023
• Geraghty, 29, as Little Red, brings an entitled and giddily defiant spirit, as well as poignancy, to a scene-stealing part.
  — Christopher Wallenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2023
• Our governor will not bend to the shrill and illogical will of an entitled and reckless super-minority.
  — Divya Kumar, Miami Herald, 8 May 2024
• The post opened a larger conversation about salary expectations and what workers should feel entitled to ask for when wages fall well below industry standard.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 14 Dec. 2022
• For some reason, recipients of these government programs also tend to be much more entitled.
  — WSJ, 22 Aug. 2022
• And Panahi Prime can be an entitled and sometimes inconsiderate houseguest.
  — Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2023
• Deborah, meanwhile, sees Ava as a bit of a hack herself — an entitled and spoiled young internet persona who was canceled for posting a joke about a closeted senator.
  — J Wortham, New York Times, 12 May 2024
• Their comments, however, garnered backlash from viewers who are either opposed to the practice or feel entitled to more transparency on the three-time Grammy winner’s part — and Goldberg is having none of it.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 15 May 2024
• Everyone in the organization should feel entitled to rest, support and respect.
  — Mike Weinberger, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2022
• Children often feel entitled to inheritance, while friends often earn it.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 21 Feb. 2021
• Many of my co-workers and supervisees seem to feel some combination of entitled, indifferent or judgmental.
  — Roxane Gay, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2023
• Those parties may feel more entitled or obligated to speak up, because their relationships are better defined and more formalized.
  — Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2022
• The eligibility requirements, including age, health conditions or job types, varied by state until all adults became entitled to a shot.
  — Akilah Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 21 June 2021
• The whole thing is a neat summary of the odd social-media economy: People post, and audiences feel entitled to weigh in on those posts, even when the conversation becomes completely unmoored from anything resembling reality.
  — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024