How to Use unemployment in a Sentence

unemployment

noun

• The current unemployment rate is six percent.
• My unemployment lasted about six months.
• Unemployment has been increasing for months.
• At the same time the unemployment rate fell to 4.1% from 4.2%.
  — Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 7 July 2025
• The unemployment rate in the area is 2.6% up 0.6% from a year ago, but still very low.
  — Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2024
• At the same time, the unemployment rate rose to 4.2%, in line with the forecast.
  — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2025
• The unemployment rate in July in the UK was 4.3% against France’s 7.4%.
  — Eamon Akil Farhat, Fortune Europe, 28 Nov. 2023
• The unemployment rate ticked up to a still-low 4.2% from 4.1%.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2025
• At the same time, the unemployment rate dipped to the lowest level since May 2024.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 9 Feb. 2025
• The unemployment rate rose to an 18-month high in August at 3.8%.
  — Abha Bhattarai The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2023
• The state’s unemployment rate is 4.2% and remains one of the highest in the region.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 19 June 2022
• Even so, the February unemployment rate in the county stood at 15.6% – far above that of the state and the nation.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2023
• The city for years has had a very low crime rate, the economy is healthy and unemployment is low.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2024
• The unemployment rate for those younger than 34 is above 40%.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Jan. 2022
• The unemployment rate remained steady at 3.7%, and hourly wages were up 5.1% from a year ago.
  — Benzinga, Detroit Free Press, 3 Dec. 2022
• The unemployment rate dropped last month to 3.5%, matching a five-decade low.
  — Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2022
• The unemployment rate is still just 3.7%, barely above a 50-year low.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2024
• The unemployment rate dropped to 3.5%, matching a five-decade low.
  — Time, 7 Oct. 2022
• At the same time, Huntsville’s unemployment rate is at 2.4%, which remains below the state rate of 2.6%.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 18 Sep. 2022
• The unemployment rate has since fallen to a record low of 3.8% under Biden.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 26 June 2024
• The unemployment rate remained steady from the prior month at 3.8%.
  — WSJ, 6 Oct. 2023
• Job growth has slowed while the unemployment rate has inched higher.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2023
• The unemployment rate remained at 3.7% from the month before.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
• The state's unemployment rate was up three-tenths of a percentage point year over year.
  — Lucas Dufalla, Arkansas Online, 21 May 2025
• But what was unexpected was the fall in the unemployment rate from 3.7% to 3.5%.
  — Robert Barone, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
• The unemployment rate is determined by the share of Ohioans in the labor force who are employed.
  — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 18 Nov. 2022
• Nevada, of course, is a state with one of the worst unemployment rates and the highest inflation rate in the nation.
  — NBC News, 6 Nov. 2022
• The urban unemployment rate was 5.3% in July, up from 5.2% in June.
  — Larissa Gao, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2023
• Regarding the job market, Powell noted that even as hiring has slowed sharply this year, the unemployment rate remains low.
  — Arkansas Online, 23 Aug. 2025
• In the mid-August Economist/YouGov survey, 32% said the unemployment rate was increasing while 22% decreasing.
  — Karlyn Bowman, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025