How to Use unemployment in a Sentence

unemployment

noun

• The current unemployment rate is six percent.
• My unemployment lasted about six months.
• Unemployment has been increasing for months.
• The unemployment rate in the area is 2.6% up 0.6% from a year ago, but still very low.
  — Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2024
• The unemployment rate in July in the UK was 4.3% against France’s 7.4%.
  — Eamon Akil Farhat, Fortune Europe, 28 Nov. 2023
• The unemployment rate rose to an 18-month high in August at 3.8%.
  — Abha Bhattarai The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2023
• Even so, the February unemployment rate in the county stood at 15.6% – far above that of the state and the nation.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2023
• The city for years has had a very low crime rate, the economy is healthy and unemployment is low.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2024
• The unemployment rate remained steady at 3.7%, and hourly wages were up 5.1% from a year ago.
  — Benzinga, Detroit Free Press, 3 Dec. 2022
• The unemployment rate is still just 3.7%, barely above a 50-year low.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2024
• The unemployment rate has since fallen to a record low of 3.8% under Biden.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 26 June 2024
• The unemployment rate remained steady from the prior month at 3.8%.
  — WSJ, 6 Oct. 2023
• Job growth has slowed while the unemployment rate has inched higher.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2023
• The unemployment rate remained at 3.7% from the month before.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
• The urban unemployment rate was 5.3% in July, up from 5.2% in June.
  — Larissa Gao, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2023
• Wage growth is slowing, and the unemployment rate has risen over recent months.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 24 Nov. 2023
• The unemployment rate was 4.2%, the same as in October.
  — cleveland, 19 Dec. 2022
• That would amount to a cooler pace of hiring than in the first three months of the year, but show that job growth remains frisky enough to keep unemployment in check.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 7 June 2024
• But the unemployment rate the over past year has been consistently lower than any point since the 1950s.
  — Ben Ritz, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2023
• The unemployment rate, meanwhile, ticked down to 4.2% from 4.3%.
  — Andrew Torgan, CNN, 29 Sep. 2024
• Meanwhile, the unemployment rate has ticked up this year.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2024
• But hiring remains robust, and the unemployment rate fell last month to match a five-decade low, 3.5%.
  — Arkansas Online, 13 Jan. 2023
• The nation's unemployment rate is near a 50-year low and wages are starting to pull ahead of inflation.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2024
• Even for workers 25 and older with just some college, the unemployment rate is a still low 3.2%.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2022
• The unemployment rate last month clocked in at 3.9%, an increase of half a percentage point from a recent low in April.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2023
• The unemployment rate edged down to 3.5% from 3.6% in June, the Labor Department said on Friday.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2023
• The unemployment rate has dropped to 3.4%, the lowest level in 53 years, and job openings remain high.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Feb. 2023
• The unemployment rate is 3.7%, a couple of ticks above a half-century low.
  — Matt Ott, ajc, 8 Dec. 2022
• Your state has the second highest unemployment rate in the country.
  — CBS News, 3 Nov. 2024
• The unemployment rate remained steady at 4.1%, the Labor Department said Friday.
  — Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024