How to Use entitlement in a Sentence

entitlement

noun

• And that, again, is what the show is all about: entitlement.
  — Town & Country, 27 Mar. 2023
• Part of the answer has to do with a sense of entitlement.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 21 Dec. 2020
• For their part, Erik and Lyle are a grotesque blend of entitlement and prey.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 19 Sep. 2024
• Black high tops, had his own style and no sense of entitlement.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2022
• There is a sense of entitlement that has caused a lack of respect for adults, peers, and our country.
  — Renata Cló, The Arizona Republic, 14 Sep. 2022
• Neither party has the will to address the root cause of the debt: entitlement spending.
  — The Editors, National Review, 24 Oct. 2023
• That entitlement already took a hit due to the shortage in Lake Mead this year.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 4 Aug. 2022
• The first problem is that this is a new suburban entitlement, not aid to the needy.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 May 2021
• Scottsdale should never cater to the entitlement of few, at the expense of many.
  — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
• Children of the wealthy have often been coddled and have a sense of entitlement.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2023
• The 49ers won with a style and flair that stunned the football world and infused the team’s downtrodden fan base with joy and pride — and maybe a touch of entitlement.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Apr. 2021
• The bride worked for a pretty high-profile person, and that brought an air of WASP-y entitlement, in terms of guests.
  — Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2021
• Keep in mind: a project would still need more approvals after this entitlement phase to get a full green light.
  — Cameron Sperance, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2022
• But that was before the rise of the entitlement state and its growing claims on tax revenue to pay retirees.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2020
• For a player just past his teens to show that entitlement at Real is unique.
  — Henry Flynn, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• The donor class wants extension of the 2017 tax cuts and entitlement reform.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
• Haley has most openly stuck with the pre-Trump view of entitlements.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• This is the kind of arrogant survival of the fittest entitlement that says their pleasure is worth more than your life.
  — Tony Bravo, SFChronicle.com, 15 Jan. 2021
• But the glamor of self-destruction was part of the texture of Max’s, and so was a certain do-what-you-please entitlement.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 July 2022
• The sense of entitlement that comes with the tour circus can block the rationale of what is acceptable.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
• An entitlement to make and uphold the rules, to make America great again.
  — NBC News, 10 Nov. 2021
• What about a sense of entitlement, which Smith mentioned?
  — Clarence E. Hill Jr., Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Mar. 2024
• Baird said there will be up to a year of the planning and entitlement process before construction can start.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 3 Sep. 2021
• For all the dash, swagger, and mien-oozing entitlement in The Blue Boy, the subject isn’t an aristocrat.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
• Even the royals are not granted that kind of entitlement.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2022
• The episode was a shocking display of male entitlement.
  — Kara Alaimo, CNN, 18 Jan. 2022
• What’s more, the women best positioned to act from a sense of entitlement are rarely those who suffer most from its lack.
  — Nora Caplan-Bricker, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2020
• The bill provides a new entitlement program for veterans who served in a combat zone in the past 32 years.
  — Kaiser Health News, oregonlive, 10 Aug. 2022
• To me your client has more right, more access, more entitlement to this information.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 7 Feb. 2025
• Some research, including a 2014 study of twins in China, suggests that genetics may play a role, with both grandiosity and entitlement seeming to be shared more by the twins than by other siblings.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 4 Mar 2025