How to Use ineligible in a Sentence

ineligible

adjective

• They are ineligible for a loan.
• Previously ineligible patients may now be able to participate in the study.
• With James Madison still ineligible for the championship and bowl game, Marshall is the dark horse in the East thanks to the makings of a terrific defense.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
• Active players who are on 40-man rosters for any of the 30 Major League Baseball teams were ineligible for the Olympics.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• If found guilty, Bolsonaro could be ruled ineligible to run for public office for up to eight years.
  — Julia Vargas Jones, CNN, 22 June 2023
• In New Hampshire, 13% of people deemed ineligible in the first month have asked for extra time to provide the necessary records.
  — Hannah Recht, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
• High school golf advocates said that could make the course ineligible to host their matches.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2023
• One problem: Gajecki was a junior and ineligible for the draft.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2023
• The fund sued the city after city officials determined two board members would be ineligible to seek new terms due to the new limits and the board disagreed.
  — Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2023
• Four senators have served in the Legislature for 20 years or longer and would be ineligible to run again.
  — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2023
• Those who responded but were ineligible for MassHealth have not lost coverage over the last three years.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Mar. 2023
• In this case, the defendant is facing 170 years to life in prison and is ineligible for elderly parole.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 5 May 2023
• That means students who just started their studies and who borrowed this year are ineligible for the plan, no matter what happens in court.
  — Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2023
• The most recent allegation in the complaints is from 2012, and was ineligible to be heard until the new law went into effect.
  — Corin Cesaric, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023
• Roster limits: Teams can dress up to 15 players for play-in and playoff games, with two-way players ineligible.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2023
• With his record clear, Barletta can now ask SafeSport for a hearing to remove him from the ineligible list.
  — Bob Hohler, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
• Unlike members of other tribes who worked as cultural monitors on the Oak fire, Coats was ineligible to be paid for his work.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2023
• As an unrecognized tribe, the group is ineligible for many types of government aid.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2023
• An Illinois judge ruled Trump should be taken off the state’s Republican primary ballot, the third state to rule him ineligible over the Jan. 6 riot.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 29 Feb. 2024
• In addition, those who have previously applied for a Delta status match in the past three years are ineligible.
  — Stella Shon, Travel + Leisure, 29 Jan. 2024
• Those who do are also ineligible for the parole program.
  — Steve Fisher, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2023
• Herbert, four snaps earlier, hit Joshua Palmer for what appeared to be a 27-yard score, but the touchdown was wiped out by an ineligible man downfield penalty on left guard Zion Johnson.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• Some may indeed be ineligible, but obviously the state can’t know that.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
• And due to quirks in the incentive structure, the poorest communities can end up being ineligible to receive them at all.
  — Sabrina Shankman, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2023
• As a result, cannabis companies are ineligible for tax breaks, and often cannot even access business loans or open bank accounts.
  — Nicholas Florko, STAT, 1 Aug. 2023
• Many women who received Medicaid for Pregnant Women and children who have turned 19 since the start of the pandemic are now ineligible.
  — Marin Wolf, Dallas News, 17 July 2023
• In each of those months, roughly 3,000 Alaskans came off the Medicaid rolls as a result, whether because they were found ineligible or had not completed their paperwork.
  — Claire Stremple, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2023
• The winner would replace current City Commissioner Adam Frankel, who is ineligible to run again in his current seat due to term limits.
  — Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
• Those found ineligible for asylum under the rule could face swift deportation to their home country or Mexico and a five-year ban from re-entering the U.S.
  — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 12 May 2023
• The victor will become Finland’s first new head of state in 12 years: The wildly popular president, Sauli Niinistö, has served two terms and is ineligible to run again.
  — Johanna Lemola, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024