How to Use eligible in a Sentence

eligible

1 of 2 adjective

• I'd like to join but I'm not eligible yet.
• To be eligible for the program, users must be at least 18 years old and must reside in the US.
  — Robert Peck, WIRED, 23 Feb. 2024
• Every year, a ton of shows open in April; to be eligible for that year’s Tony Awards, a show must open by the end of April.
  — Mathew Brownstein, New York Times, 9 June 2023
• In future years, a system will be in place for local artists to apply to play at the festival and be eligible for the prize.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 17 Jan. 2024
• An eligible home must: Be built before 1980, on level ground or a slight slope.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
• The biggest challenge coming with a loss would be to SDSU’s quest to be bowl eligible for a 14th straight season.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2023
• Over 35 years with no record of him being eligible for a hearing for parole?
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
• And yes, Glossier's cult-favorite You Scent is eligible for the discounts, along with its matching candle.
  — Shanna Shipin, Glamour, 24 Nov. 2023
• The greatest film score of 2023 isn’t eligible for an Academy Award.
  — Jon Burlingame, Variety, 5 Dec. 2023
• Of the previous 11, eight are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and two are not eligible for consideration yet.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 6 June 2023
• Using the new measure, families in 219 schools will be eligible for the tax credit.
  — Tcrain, al, 2 June 2023
• Ohtani, who is eligible for free agency this off-season, left Wednesday’s game against the Cincinnati Reds with one out in the second inning.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• The new guidance stops short of a full-throated recommendation for all eligible older adults to get the shots.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 21 June 2023
• Young children with the condition, as well as older patients for whom the disease has caused a lot of damage, may not be eligible for the treatment.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
• Households that haven’t ordered at-home tests recently are eligible for up to two orders of four tests each.
  — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2024
• All three players would be eligible to sign with the Heat as a free agent this season because their pre-waiver salaries are under $12.4 million.
  — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2024
• Absentees There are four players who are eligible to play but won’t feature – chief among them, Tiger Woods.
  — Jack Bantock, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
• Commanders running back Derrick Gore is on the practice squad and not eligible to play.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 17 Sep. 2023
• Leonard has been eligible for a contract extension since mid-July, and George since Sept. 1.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• Those seeking vaccines do not need to live in Oakland County to be eligible for shots at the health division's clinics.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 5 Mar. 2024
• The surge in stock price would make some sense if there were any indication that the company had begun a turnaround or found an eligible buyer.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 31 July 2023
• The new program is available to all eligible new and existing members.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 20 July 2023
• While all Starbucks beverages are eligible for the deal, the half off opportunity is the perfect chance to try one of the chain’s four new holiday cold foams.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 6 Dec. 2023
• William Nylander is in the final year of his contract and is also eligible for an extension.
  — Mike Brehm, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
• Score 30% off Olaplex's entire bond-boosting line (even sets are eligible for the discount), or pick up a luxe hair mask from Pureology for under $30.
  — Anamaria Glavan, Allure, 27 Nov. 2023
• Single girls ages 13-25 who live in Oceanside are eligible to enter.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2024
• Any organization with a workforce of at least 150 people is eligible for the award.
  — Charisse Jones, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
• Once uploaded, consumers will be eligible for the free smart cable.
  — John Towfighi, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
• To be eligible, families must live in Carson, so bring your ID to verify your address.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2023
• To be eligible, the director must have at least a draft of the full script of a feature-length fiction film project, and the film must not yet be completed by the time QCinema 2023 commences and must not yet be fully financed.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 5 Sep. 2023

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eligible

2 of 2 noun

• With the win, the Blazers are now bowl-eligible for the second time in coach Bill Clark's tenure.
  — AL.com, 4 Nov. 2017
• As many as 15 are age-eligible for the Tokyo Olympics next summer.
  — USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2020
• There are lots of full fields at Santa Anita and four of the five turf races have also eligibles.
  — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 9 June 2018
• Rich Strike was an also-eligible who only got into the race due to a late scratch.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 21 May 2022
• The software will let eligible users live-stream to a new subreddit called r/pan.
  — Julia Alexander, The Verge, 19 Aug. 2019
• Any deal would have to start with Baynes, who became trade eligible last weekend.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 15 Feb. 2021
• In all, 93 horses — plus eight also-eligibles — were drawn for the 10-race opening card.
  — Tod Leonard, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 July 2019
• Tyler’s dad Tony grew up on a farm in Flora, in a household eligible for food stamps but refusing to get them.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 15 Mar. 2018
• None of the targets will be be draft-eligible until 2019, at the earliest, but with so much talent in one spot, NBA teams make sure to keep an eye out.
  — Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, 10 Apr. 2018
• More than 90% of students at the school are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches, a measure of poverty.
  — Ian Lovett and Tawnell D. Hobbs, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2019
• There are three turf races, including the one-mile seventh race with 10 starters and four also eligibles.
  — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• Through six games, ASU was sitting at 5-1 and becoming bowl-eligible didn't seem like a question, but with three straight losses much now seems up in the air.
  — Michelle Gardner, azcentral, 10 Nov. 2019
• The charge is death-penalty eligible, although that decision has not yet been made, Cullen said.
  — Washington Post, 29 June 2018
• Rose will be playoff-eligible should the Timberwolves qualify for the first time since 2004.
  — K.c. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 6 Mar. 2018
• Most of the Federal Circuit judges thought the invention should be patent-eligible but felt trapped by Supreme Court precedent.
  — Paul R. Michel and Matthew J. Dowd, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2020
• Both are eligible for free Prime shipping and feature Alexa.
  — CNN Underscored, 27 Nov. 2019
• The criteria for players to become eligible for free agency, which first came to M.L.S. in 2015, have been loosened.
  — Kevin Draper, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
• Nelson, 28, is arbitration-eligible for the first time this winter and has three more years of control.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2017
• On Friday, the Padres agreed to one-year deals with four others, leaving Hand as the lone player eligible for arbitration.
  — Dennis Lin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 Jan. 2018
• Oregon State is bowl eligible before the end of October for only the fourth time in school history.
  — oregonlive, 22 Oct. 2022
• Both are eligible for free agency after the 2020 World Series.
  — Kyle Hightower, courant.com, 30 Sep. 2019
• Her grandmother, both over 65 and Native American, was one of the first eligible for the Moderna shot.
  — Victor Ordonez, ABC News, 4 June 2021
• Tipsters to Crime Stoppers are anonymous an eligible for a cash reward.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 26 Sep. 2022
• As Jeremy Pelzer writes, nursing-home staffers, health-care workers, and other first-responders will be among the first eligible for the vaccine.
  — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 25 Nov. 2020
• Our students are 80 percent black or Latino, and 70 percent are eligible for free or reduced lunch.
  — Christina Lewis, The Root, 19 Mar. 2018
• While lottery eligible, Washington could make the playoffs via the NBA’s play-in tournament.
  — Matt Goul, cleveland, 10 May 2021
• That means a business eligible for solar and wind tax credits build the facility and Platte River signs on to buy the power for a certain number of years.
  — Jacy Marmaduke, The Seattle Times, 8 Dec. 2017
• Arkansas State is bowl-eligible for the ninth consecutive season, and has won at least seven games every year in that stretch.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 26 Nov. 2019
• Years from now, when Curry retires and waits to become Hall-of-Fame eligible, he will be remembered as a basketball legend.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Dec. 2021
• In addition, a surge among the mostly not-vaccine-eligible 10 to 19-year-olds only recently has settled a bit; this group too has seen a large increase in cases.
  — Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 14 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 3 May 2024