How to Use gainfully employed in a Sentence
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He is gainfully employed and has maintained a clean record for decades.
—Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 23 Dec. 2022
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Their daughter, two years out of college and gainfully employed, lives with them.
—R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2025
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Yet all the above are still gainfully employed, and Kimmel sleeps with the fishes.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 18 Sep. 2025
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He was gainfully employed during that time, working construction jobs and as a line cook.
—Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 13 Oct. 2025
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She’s gainfully employed and is in a year-long relationship.
—R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
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But, his brother wrote, Stacy had become sober and was gainfully employed.
—Carolyn Komatsoulis, Idaho Statesman, 26 June 2024
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Thurmond said people who are gainfully employed or in school are far less likely to fall victim to violence.
—Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 1 Jan. 2023
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Both have college degrees, are gainfully employed, and their moral compass points in the right direction.
—Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 9 May 2022
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Pillay’s father was gainfully employed as a pharmacist, the judge said.
—City News Service, Oc Register, 3 June 2025
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The judge noted that Stager had no criminal history as an adult and he had been gainfully employed most of his adult life.
—Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 25 July 2023
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Everyone in Chicago will benefit if more of our youth are gainfully employed while school is out.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 15 July 2025
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Massive infrastructure projects – and the state’s thirst for housing – should keep the building trades gainfully employed.
—Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 22 July 2024
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She’s gainfully employed and is in a yearlong relationship.
—R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2026
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Or where a housing crisis forces even gainfully employed professionals onto the streets.
—John Anderson, WSJ, 30 May 2023
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He is gainfully employed as an orderly at an elder care facility.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 29 Apr. 2025
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Even for those who are gainfully employed, concerns overseas are becoming more difficult to ignore.
—Jane Thier, Fortune, 11 May 2024
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Marc Surprise, 43, has lived in Safe House for 12 drug-free years and is gainfully employed.
—Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2022
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Most are gainfully employed, albeit often in blue-collar jobs that the Times seemed to dismiss as inadequate.
—WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022
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The workers of the Six Thousand Ship are gainfully employed, but their jobs leave them disoriented.
—Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2022
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Unlike most of the club, its founder and president, Johnny (a stellar Hardy), is gainfully employed, a truck driver with a wife and kids.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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For example, workforce and job training programs are asked to report the percentage of their clients who become gainfully employed and retain their jobs after six months or a year.
—David C. Campbell, The Conversation, 10 June 2024
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The fact that people remained gainfully employed and not on unemployment kept the economy afloat at what was otherwise a very precarious time.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2024
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There have been hundreds of thousands of cross-industry layoffs, hiring freezes, and those lucky enough to remain gainfully employed shouldn’t expect a pay bump that will keep pace with inflation.
—Jane Thier, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2023
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Once the daughter or son is gainfully employed, parents could help with the deposit for a flat and buy a few pieces of furniture to ensure their prodigy can focus on their new career without having to sleep on the floor.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2023
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They may have been gainfully employed until an unexpected medical or other emergency depleted their funds.
—Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 1 July 2024
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Akida’s family, said that Akida was a beloved sister and daughter who was gainfully employed and that the shoplifting accusations have come as a shock to her family.
—Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2022
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Now married to her longtime crush, Pollux — the same tribal officer who arrested her — and gainfully employed, Tookie cannot believe her luck.
—Jennifer Wilson, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2021
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Much of consumers’ ability to keep spending right through the current levels of inflation was because the vast majority of them remained gainfully employed, often in jobs that paid good wages.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 28 May 2024
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Social security benefits Suppose the deceased parent was gainfully employed for some time.
—Christian Dashiell, Parents, 29 July 2024
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Now gainfully employed in the tech sector alongside her husband, Emanuele said that, even with two solid incomes, the prospect of owning a second property is unrealistic.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
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