How to Use gainful in a Sentence

gainful

adjective

• Parkey’s gainful employment is good news for the Bears.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 7 Oct. 2019
• So far no one has created a gainful business based on the concept.
  — Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
• This does not bode well for Coloradans in the workforce or for those seeking gainful employment.
  — Ben Murrey, National Review, 2 July 2021
• The new time crystal demo marks one of the first times a quantum computer has found gainful employment.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Aug. 2021
• Since recording the video, Hawkins has also found gainful employment, according to a statement from the food pantry.
  — Teri Webster, Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2021
• This makes it that much harder for people with bad credit to get the gainful employment needed to repair their scores.
  — Nadra Nittle, Vox, 2 Nov. 2018
• The top two goals the men cite most often are spending more time with their children and finding more gainful employment, Perry said.
  — Morgan Watkins, The Courier-Journal, 14 June 2019
• The gainful employment rule has been scrapped, along with the one regarding loan forgiveness.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 1 Feb. 2018
• And coach Kliff Kingsbury could not pinpoint why that touchdown, where Arnold was quite open, didn't lead to other big plays, or even just gainful plays, on the following drives.
  — Katherine Fitzgerald, The Arizona Republic, 7 Dec. 2020
• At the heart of the issue is whether Americans who are struggling with gainful employment are overly reliant on food stamps.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2019
• When his father died during his last year of college, the pressure mounted on Bawge to find gainful employment.
  — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2020
• The gainful employment rule was designed to ensure that graduates would be able to earn enough money to pay off their student loan debt.
  — Maria Danilova, The Seattle Times, 14 June 2017
• In June 2019, DeVos announced a final repeal of the gainful employment rules.
  — NBC News, 23 Jan. 2020
• Instead, the entrepreneurs being lost to gainful employment are those who would otherwise flit between the two worlds.
  — Adi Gaskell, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
• As the Obama deputy under secretary, Mr. Kvaal helped craft the gainful employment rule that tried to put for-profit colleges out of business.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 July 2021
• In many of his songs, love sucked, gainful work was elusive, and the choice between redemption and destruction was often decided by a single step.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2023
• The Department of Education intends to put a new rule in place that sets standards around gainful employment.
  — Katie Lobosco, CNN, 9 Jan. 2022
• America must restore the norm of gainful employment for all who are mentally and physically able and are not working in the home.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2018
• We will not be rendered invisible, made to hide our family pictures at our work desks for fear of reprisal if our right to gainful employment gets stripped.
  — Allison Hope, CNN, 1 June 2022
• In his defense, my old man was from the generation who believed gainful employment, three squares a day and a roof over your head were vacation enough from the vicissitudes of life.
  — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2021
• The goal is to prepare the students for gainful employment in professional or technical careers and is a second chance for success.
  — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• For the author, on the brink of middle age, those things included the recent death of his unhappy father and his strained relationship with gainful employment.
  — John Glassie, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2020
• Up Initiative that provides job training to help the long-term unemployed find gainful employment.
  — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 10 Aug. 2021
• Is there some sustainable within gainful employment that all Americans are able to achieve?
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2022
• Working-class people must juggle a long list of problems, from getting gainful employment to finding decent schools.
  — The New York Times, NOLA.com, 5 Aug. 2017
• Finding gainful employment is the most effective deterrent to falling back into a life of crime, studies show.
  — Zolan Kanno-Youngs, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2018
• Their lives take a dramatic turn when Ki-woo gets a gig as a private tutor to the snobbishly rich Park family, proceeding to scam all the Kims into gainful employ in the moneyed household on a hill.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2019
• Crystal clear blue skies and cool breezes are wafting about the Pharmalot campus, where the short person will soon rise for gainful summer employment and the official mascot is bounding about the grounds with a favorite playmate.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 17 Aug. 2022
• For years, groups of refugees have tried to leave the camp, where they’re largely not allowed to seek gainful employment or higher education, and where their mobility is tightly controlled.
  — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2022
• There wasn’t a host of options for an underage kid in New Jersey in terms of gainful employment, and his main interests at the time — skating, graffiti, filming his friends on his camcorder — weren’t necessarily gateways to a paying gig.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024