Example sentences for: unearned

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

  • This shortage, said Secretary of Education Richard Riley, "translates into billions of dollars in unearned wages and unrealized corporate earnings."

  • Yet critics insist on portraying gamblers as a pitiable class of suckers, enslaved by fantasies of unearned wealth.

  • The latter is unearned and knee-jerk: "They're all a bunch of crooks."

  • When RN ran into every kind of problem after June of 1972, most of which were unearned and a chunk of which was earned, my father never thought of disavowing him or even distancing himself from Nixon.

  • The New Yorker reported that last year, Random House had $50 million in unearned advances on its books, and Simon & Schuster had $35 million.


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