unskilled - use in sentences

Used with adjective complement

  • feel: Many workers,make a lot of assumptions about users and feel unskilled in working with them.

Infinitive complement

  • tell: The charity needs fundraisers, equipment, researchers, and editors, skilled and unskilled to tell it like it is.

Modifies a noun

  • laborer: Alternatively a boy could become an unskilled laborer which paid immediately higher wages.
  • laborer: Others are farmers, fishermen, and unskilled laborers.
  • labor: Once the demand for unskilled labor had gone, the people left the UK.
  • labor: Second, we consider evidence from a middle income country with abundant unskilled labor.
  • worker: How much does an unskilled worker receive annually at present?
  • occupation: And men in unskilled occupations are four times more likely to commit suicide than professionals.

Modifying Another Word

  • relatively: Design The tanks have been designed for construction by relatively unskilled workers.
  • largely: To protect the jobs and wages of their members, trade unions insisted that the female dilutees did largely unskilled work.
  • mainly: This is mainly unskilled work that is sought on a daily basis, mainly in construction and on other people's farms.
  • mostly: The jobs were mostly unskilled and fairly low paid, and there were a few cases of self-employment.
  • totally: Wages in the industry have been cut by 50 per cent since the 1980s and the workers are totally unskilled.
  • not: I am not unskilled in prophesy, but have true knowledge.

Preposition: in

  • art: My observation is that the majority of students -- from all backgrounds -- were a little inarticulate and unskilled in the art of discussion.

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