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.
• Russo was the team’s Rookie of the Year and qualified for the States in the 100-yard freestyle.
  — Danny Ventura, Boston Herald, 15 Apr. 2025
• 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
• Some of them are networks and old ideas of who should serve and who is qualified.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 18 Nov. 2022
• The state isn’t tracking the number of students who have since qualified due to the change.
  — Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 13 May 2025
• Nine other men hit the mark and qualified for the final.
  — Lindsay Kimble, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2024
• Saints qualified for the Open Division for the fourth time.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2024
• Offers will be sent to qualified students from states where the schools are based.
  — Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
• Even if some of those jobs return to the U.S., many workers aren’t qualified.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2022
• Of course, finding a new-to-you qualified doc isn’t the easiest task.
  — Jess Sims, SELF, 23 Oct. 2023
• Ecuador is also tuning up for the World Cup, having qualified to be among the 32 teams.
  — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 1 June 2022
• Even among the clubs that are qualified for the playoffs in the east, each one is still jockeying for seeding.
  — The Enquirer, 6 Oct. 2022
• Critics on both sides of the aisle have also accused him of not being qualified to lead the FBI.
  — Rachel Barber, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2024
• There's none of them that are not well qualified to be the Golden Bachelorette.
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 3 Nov. 2023
• Both of them are supremely qualified to serve on our highest court.
  — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Jan. 2022
• Although the news came as a big shock to many, his family believes that there is no one more qualified to lead the church.
  — Linda Marx, People.com, 13 May 2025
• There are more open IT roles than there are qualified candidates to fill them.
  — Song Pang, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
• They are plays Watson and Clark are uniquely qualified to make.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2022
• If that happens, ByteDance would have 180 days to sell TikTok to a qualified buyer.
  — Haleluya Hadero, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
• Lastly, the law limits how many of each type of hearing a qualified project would be subject to.
  — Racquel Bazos, Baltimore Sun, 24 Dec. 2024
• That’s a very tough question because there are a lot of people who are qualified.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2022
• The county election board decides if the voter was qualified and if the vote should be counted.
  — Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2022
• The producers are more than qualified to speak on this subject — both have more than their share of both hits and classics.
  — Paul Thompson, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2024
• The majority responded with top marks and a few qualified for the state meet in more than one event.
  — Lou Ponsi, Orange County Register, 18 May 2024
• In both versions, the tax break is structured as a deduction available on qualified tips.
  — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 17 June 2025
• Lewis and Clark—fine people—told me Canada’s not mentally qualified to be a country!
  — Patricia Marx, New Yorker, 16 June 2025