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.
• The unemployment rate is at a four-year high right now.
  — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Oct. 2025
• And, yet, the unemployment rate hasn’t seemed to have risen.
  — Darian Woods, NPR, 6 Feb. 2026
• No one can quite agree on the best metric for true unemployment.
  — Ian Chaffee, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2025
• Job growth has slowed while the unemployment rate has inched higher.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2023
• The threat of unemployment spurred many of us to look for new jobs, which helped trim the payroll.
  — Kate Callen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
• All this might be strange to think about during a time of rock-bottom unemployment.
  — Chris Taylor, Fortune, 14 July 2022
• 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 state's unemployment rate was up three-tenths of a percentage point year over year.
  — Lucas Dufalla, Arkansas Online, 21 May 2025
• Wage growth is slowing, and the unemployment rate has risen over recent months.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 24 Nov. 2023
• The map shows the states where unemployment claims have been decreasing the most.
  — Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
• Canada’s unemployment rate is now at its highest point in nine years.
  — Auzinea Bacon, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
• America's unemployment rate may be low, but so is job growth.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 24 Mar. 2026
• The unemployment rate goes down.
  — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 24 May 2026
• When unemployment is low like it’s been, those folks tend to stay at their jobs instead of going back to school.
  — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 30 Sep. 2025
• In the short run there may be an inflation-unemployment tradeoff, but over time there is none.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
• The unemployment rate for those younger than 34 is above 40%.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Jan. 2022
• The slow job growth has not yet had an impact on the unemployment rate, so people are not losing their jobs yet.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2025
• In both of these periods, the unemployment rate fell below four per cent.
  — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
• Much of his tenure was marked by falling unemployment.
  — Scott Horsley, NPR, 22 June 2026
• And weekly unemployment claims rose sharply last week, a sign layoffs may be picking up.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
• There’s an unemployment crisis among Black women that no one wants to talk about.
  — Sheletta Brundidge, Twin Cities, 15 Oct. 2025
• Hiring has been strong, unemployment has stayed low, and consumers have kept on spending.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
• But Phillips and his peers had a sense that inflation played a role, too, since it was linked to unemployment.
  — Alex Mayyasi, NPR, 7 Apr. 2026
• The unemployment rate is now at its highest level in years and household debt is rising.
  — Matt Richardson, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
• Inflation and unemployment might break his hold on the public mind.
  — Walter Russell Mead, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2026
• The steps to apply for unemployment.
  — Allbusiness, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• Sure, the unemployment rate, but does that really apply to me?
  — Rachel Barber, USA Today, 26 June 2026