Unskilled

"Unskilled" in a Sentence (13 examples)

At that time, bicycles were just starting to get popular and, here and there, there were many unskilled beginners who ran into people and broke through their hedges.

Unskilled labor is poorly paid.

Peter works as an unskilled laborer.

"Me hath Fortune willed / long tost, like you, through sufferings, here to rest / and find at length a refuge. Not unskilled / in woe, I learn to succour the distrest."

Internships can be traced to apprenticeships of the Middle Ages, where craftsmen trained unskilled labor in a trade.

Some farmers say unskilled labor will undoubtedly help, but they caution that untried farmhands take much longer to do the work and can often damage crops and produce.

And you are an unskilled worker.

Thanks to the pandemic, we now know that "unskilled" workers are essential.

The Labor Department said in a report this week that the nation has too few jobs for unskilled people—and too few people for skilled jobs.

He was very unskilled at his job, so the manager fired him.

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In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.

Set against the background of the American civil war, with Keaton a cunning but unskilled driver, unaided, of the ponderous giant of a locomotive, it remains not only probably the funniest film about railways ever made, but one of the funniest silent films to retain its comic power over today's more sophisticated audiences.

The minimum hourly wage for construction workers has increased to NOK 250,30 per hour for skilled workers and NOK 226,90 for unskilled workers, with an additional rate of NOK 235,80 for unskilled workers with at least one year’s experience in the industry.

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