How to Use entitlement in a Sentence

entitlement

noun

• The sense of entitlement that comes with the tour circus can block the rationale of what is acceptable.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
• Morally and fiscally this self-dealing and sense of entitlement is a scandal in and of itself.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2021
• Fans’ laser focus on stars and stars’ tendency to please can even lead fans to disturbing levels of entitlement.
  — Kristin J. Lieb, The Conversation, 17 June 2021
• And his film’s willingness to pamper him raises still-fraught questions about selfish entitlement.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 15 June 2021
• The hallmarks of her behavior include poor decision-making that leads to financial hardship and a huge sense of entitlement.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• The passive-aggressive smile, the (not-so) subtle entitlement, the preoccupation with her children’s weight.
  — Luke Kelly-Clyne and Graham Techler, Vulture, 31 May 2021
• Why make entitlement to RBT contingent on an exit tax, outwardly portrayed as a type of wealth taxation?
  — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 7 June 2021
• Ron Cephas Jones plays an academic with an outsized sense of entitlement — another brand of misguided admirer.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2021
• And that, again, is what the show is all about: entitlement.
  — Town & Country, 27 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• For a player just past his teens to show that entitlement at Real is unique.
  — Henry Flynn, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Haley has most openly stuck with the pre-Trump view of entitlements.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Amazon’s spokesperson told Fortune that at least three of the 10 weeks staff on the 42-week contracts take off each year must come out of their PTO entitlement.
  — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 30 May 2023
• There tends to be a sense of entitlement with lacrosse parents, who might spend thousands of dollars per year on equipment and fees for club teams.
  — Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2024
• Today’s biggest artists are watched and scrutinized by fans for their every post, like, and follow, each reply and comment dripping with a previously unseen level of entitlement.
  — Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024