How to Use qualified in a Sentence

qualified

adjective
  • She gave a qualified yes to the question.
  • She is highly qualified for the job.
  • I'm not qualified to give you advice about what you should do.
  • The plan was given qualified approval.
  • Steph then called her dad, who is a qualified builder, to give her a hand.
    Keryn Donnelly, refinery29.com, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Google gave the job to a man who was less qualified, her complaint claims.
    WIRED, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Offers will be sent to qualified students from states where the schools are based.
    Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Of course, finding a new-to-you qualified doc isn’t the easiest task.
    Jess Sims, SELF, 23 Oct. 2023
  • There's none of them that are not well qualified to be the Golden Bachelorette.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 3 Nov. 2023
  • If that happens, ByteDance would have 180 days to sell TikTok to a qualified buyer.
    Haleluya Hadero, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
  • That equates to an average of 7.1 yards per carry, the third best among qualified running backs last season and the best among any in the Power Five.
    Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 3 Sep. 2023
  • While a great many are highly qualified, a great many aren’t, yet the powers that be are lowering standards to let them in.
    Stanley Goldfarb, National Review, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Schwarzman asked Grey to give her a list of qualified candidates.
    Scott Johnson, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2023
  • But most immigrants are not, in fact, qualified to vote.
    BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2023
  • The school has had a tough time finding qualified teachers willing to travel to the remote village.
    IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2023
  • By the end of Tuesday’s proceedings, the pool of qualified jurors was whittled down to 50 people.
    Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Of the eight people questioned Wednesday and Thursday, five were qualified and the remaining three were struck for cause.
    Shaddi Abusaid, ajc, 21 July 2023
  • The Iron never had a chance to because the AAF folded with two weeks left in the regular season and the team already qualified for the postseason.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 3 July 2023
  • No one really knows the answers to those questions, and, as a result, some of the most qualified people in the world are fighting among themselves.
    Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
  • None these candidates qualified for the first debate last month.
    Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2023
  • With its latest move, UCLA might be able to lay claim to having the most qualified position coach in college football.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Brooke Buckner is 9th but just had a child, but #10 is Lacy Schneemann, who just finished 2nd at the most recent event and qualified for doubles.
    Todd Boss, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Texas faces a shortage of qualified mental health professionals to work in schools.
    Talia Richman, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
  • Based on Julia’s account, Robinson seemed qualified to be a head chef at a leading restaurant in St. Louis or some other big city.
    John Reeves, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The Farrells say the Leominster hospital looked for a hospital with an available bed and a qualified surgeon.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Use league resources to pre-screen candidates so qualified ones can't be ignored.
    Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
  • Once medically cleared, they’ll be put up for adoption to qualified hosts.
    Irv Erdos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2023
  • These were teachers that were in their 40s and 50s, that had been qualified to teach anywhere in the country but were denied that opportunity.
    Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Blitt, who, at sixty-five, is a qualified member of the past-their-prime cohort, also drew from his own experience.
    Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • When selecting the images, the curators asked themselves what qualified as rest, and what would translate to viewers as such.
    Emily Lordi, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2023

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