Example sentences for: ineligible

How can you use “ineligible” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Most damning is that Gelsinger was technically ineligible for therapy in the first place and should never have received treatment at the Institute.

  • The Post says civil rights groups have pushed this in Florida because one-third of the nation's disenfranchised felons live there and about 31 percent of the state's black men are ineligible to vote.

  • Between 1989 and 1993, 48,000 students received Pell Grant overpayments; 35,000 received Pell Grants from two separate schools simultaneously; and 101,000 students, ineligible for Pell Grants because they had defaulted on federally guaranteed loans, received them anyway.

  • A 1993 General Accounting Office report showed the breadth of incompetence in financial-aid administration--between 1982 and 1992, 43,519 ineligible students received subsidized loans.

  • One wonderful line quoted by the Post and the NYT is his lead from a 1960 column, when Povich was campaigning hard to have the Washington football team break the color line: "Jim Brown, born ineligible to play for the Redskins, integrated their end zone three times yesterday."


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