How to Use gainfully employed in a Sentence

gainfully employed

idiom

• He is gainfully employed and has maintained a clean record for decades.
  — Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 23 Dec. 2022
• Marc Surprise, 43, has lived in Safe House for 12 drug-free years and is gainfully employed.
  — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2022
• The judge noted that Stager had no criminal history as an adult and he had been gainfully employed most of his adult life.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 25 July 2023
• Unlike most of the club, its founder and president, Johnny (a stellar Hardy), is gainfully employed, a truck driver with a wife and kids.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• He has been gainfully employed since prior to this arrest.
  — Travis Andersen and, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Nov. 2022
• The workers of the Six Thousand Ship are gainfully employed, but their jobs leave them disoriented.
  — Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2022
• Both have college degrees, are gainfully employed, and their moral compass points in the right direction.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 9 May 2022
• Thurmond said people who are gainfully employed or in school are far less likely to fall victim to violence.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 1 Jan. 2023
• Most are gainfully employed, albeit often in blue-collar jobs that the Times seemed to dismiss as inadequate.
  — WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022
• Once the daughter or son is gainfully employed, parents could help with the deposit for a flat and buy a few pieces of furniture to ensure their prodigy can focus on their new career without having to sleep on the floor.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2023
• There have been hundreds of thousands of cross-industry layoffs, hiring freezes, and those lucky enough to remain gainfully employed shouldn’t expect a pay bump that will keep pace with inflation.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2023
• Akida’s family, said that Akida was a beloved sister and daughter who was gainfully employed and that the shoplifting accusations have come as a shock to her family.
  — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2022
• Or where a housing crisis forces even gainfully employed professionals onto the streets.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 30 May 2023
• Or where a housing crisis forces even gainfully employed professionals onto the streets.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 30 May 2023
• Now married to her longtime crush, Pollux — the same tribal officer who arrested her — and gainfully employed, Tookie cannot believe her luck.
  — Jennifer Wilson, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2021
• The fact that people remained gainfully employed and not on unemployment kept the economy afloat at what was otherwise a very precarious time.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2024
• Even for those who are gainfully employed, concerns overseas are becoming more difficult to ignore.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 11 May 2024
• This begs the question, if gainfully employed people (and that, too, in the financial industry) recall experiencing this, what about people in other industries?
  — Dilip Rao, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
• Statistically speaking, at-risk individuals who are gainfully employed tend to commit fewer crimes.
  — Adam Reuter, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2022

Last Updated: 16 Aug 2024