How to Use unskilled in a Sentence

unskilled

adjective

• Such a large wave could have depressed pay for unskilled work in the cities.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• In unskilled hands, this would evoke thoughts of a hoarder house.
  — Samantha Swindler, OregonLive.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• But that’s not to say the underarm serve is a tool of the unskilled player.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2020
• So, slow growth in the more-skilled areas, and a decline in this unskilled knife work.
  — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2017
• Azubuike was the team’s fourth center even when healthy — just too big, too slow, too unskilled.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 June 2021
• Close behind, 39% of the firms with unskilled openings plan hikes.
  — William Dunkelberg, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• This is not an excuse to DIY or bring in an unskilled pro, Hotarek cautions.
  — Jamie Gold, Forbes, 3 May 2022
• Cutting the time skilled workers spend on unskilled prep work?
  — al, 29 Jan. 2023
• Many of the Afghans don’t speak English and have found physical, unskilled work.
  — Alexander Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Jan. 2023
• Poor people work two or three jobs, unskilled work that doesn’t require a trade.
  — Christian Livermore, Longreads, 11 Oct. 2022
• Many are working in unskilled jobs or professions other than the ones they were trained for.
  — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2020
• His teeth are crooked and overlapping, like cards fanned out by an unskilled dealer.
  — Elliot Ackerman, Esquire, 23 Mar. 2017
• Many are unskilled doing the work that others won’t take, for wages Americans can’t live on.
  — Jonathan Freedman, The Denver Post, 14 Jan. 2017
• Over the same period, the unskilled hourly wage rate increased by 173.2 percent.
  — Marian Tupy, National Review, 26 Nov. 2020
• In the hands of an unskilled tailor, a beloved dress can fail to match the bride’s vision, or be ruined altogether.
  — Shannon Sims, New York Times, 27 July 2023
• At a time when an unskilled laborer was earning around £2 per year, that was a pretty hefty sum.
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 21 June 2022
• But since the factories closed, work is often unskilled and poorly paid.
  — Katrin Bennhold, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2017
• The portrait of 2021 that emerges is of a jagged recovery that’s largely freezing out low- and unskilled workers.
  — Greg Jefferson, ExpressNews.com, 31 Dec. 2020
• The particular bile used in TRQ comes from the Asiatic black bear, many of which die due to the unskilled removal of the gallbladder to harvest the bile.
  — Fox News, 29 Mar. 2020
• My boyfriend then took me to an unskilled provider who carried out a surgical procedure on me at 12 weeks.
  — Josephine Sedgwick, New York Times, 9 July 2018
• Many of those factory jobs are unskilled or semi-skilled.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• But since then the rate has dropped below 7%, and companies now complain that both skilled and unskilled workers are in short supply.
  — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
• The objection to iconic is not that the meaning has broadened, but that it has been employed by unskilled writers.
  — John E. McIntyre, baltimoresun.com, 26 Aug. 2017
• A month prior to the WannaCry outbreak, the group dumped the highly reliable Eternal Blue in a form that could be used by even unskilled hackers.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 5 June 2019
• Scotch grew up in Connecticut, the daughter of an unskilled draftsman and a homemaker.
  — David Scharfenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2019
• The damage goes unseen: thousands of young or unskilled workers who have a harder time finding that first job.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2018
• One useful approach is to look at industries that require a lot of unskilled and semi-skilled labour.
  — Aditya Jahagirdar, Quartz India, 28 Oct. 2019
• That’s why sluggers who are considered too big, too clumsy or too unskilled to play elsewhere end up at first.
  — Michael Cunningham, ajc, 21 June 2017
• Bystanders and buildings have been struck by the bullet spray of modified Glocks, which cause a recoil that is difficult for unskilled or inexperienced users to control, the complaint alleges.
  — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
• Thirty percent of the firms have openings for skilled workers, but 15% have unskilled opportunities available as well (there are 6 million employer firms).
  — William Dunkelberg, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024