ENTITLED in a Sentence

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65 example sentences for ENTITLED, such as:

1. You may be entitled to reclaim some tax.
2. This may affect your entitlement to compensation.
3. This ticket entitles you to a free seat at the concert.
4. Being unemployed entitles you to free medical treatment.
5. Your contributions will affect your pension entitlements.

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 Meanings and Examples of ENTITLED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
entitled
 a.  eligible; qualified; qualified for by right according to law
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  Scarlett was his wife and a wife was entitled to the loyalty of her husband.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
2  The dinginess of her present life threw into enchanting relief the existence to which she felt herself entitled.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
3  She reaped the reward to which disinterestedness is entitled, and found an agreeable companion in her niece.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
4  And she begged that Robert would interest himself, and discover, if possible, whether she was entitled to the indulgence accompanying the remarkably curious Mexican prayer-beads.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XV
5  He had nearly three hundred dollars in the bank, and might have considered himself entitled to a vacation; but he had an easy job, and force of habit kept him at it.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
6  This insinuation was a home thrust, and one that in a more advanced state of society would have entitled Magua to the reputation of a skillful diplomatist.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28
7  The fact that he gave me any part of my wages was proof, to my mind, that he believed me entitled to the whole of them.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  You see, I brought my own property and servants into the connection, when I married St. Clare, and I am legally entitled to manage them my own way.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
9  We now have under our eyes a note written by him on the margin of a quarto entitled Correspondence of Lord Germain with Generals Clinton, Cornwallis, and the Admirals on the American station.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO...
10  , with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
11  It is in a little work entitled Claude Gueux that this word made its appearance.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSI...
12  In the establishment which entitled itself order after the revolution had been cut short, the King amounted to more than royalty.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE
13  It was opened, and in it were found two printed dialogues, signed Lahautiere, a song entitled: "Workmen, band together," and a tin box full of cartridges.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
14  Rome left some poetry to her sewer, and called it the Gemoniae; Paris insulted hers, and entitled it the Polypus-Hole.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—BRUNESEAU
15  The situation of the inferior gentry, or Franklins, as they were called, who, by the law and spirit of the English constitution, were entitled to hold themselves independent of feudal tyranny, became now unusually precarious.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
16  He entitled the book "Love Story".
17  You may be entitled to reclaim some tax.
18  The local authority ruled that he had made himself intentionally homeless and was therefore not entitled to be rehoused.
19  She would be entitled to just the same rights over the children, and just the same rights to income support and maintenance for the children.
20  A feudal knight ranking between a knight bachelor and a baron, who was entitled to lead men into battle under his own standard.
21  If dismissed without cause, an employee is entitled to certain severance benefits.
22  While Bill was entitled to use a company car while he worked for the firm, the company's lawyers questioned his entitlement to the vehicle once he'd quit his job.
23  Except at this point you're allowed to subtract any tax credits to which you're entitled from the bill.
24  Being unemployed entitles you to free medical treatment.
25  This ticket entitles you to a free seat at the concert.
26  The coupon should entitle its bearer to a 25 percent savings.
27  Your contributions will affect your pension entitlements.
28  It is certainly worth checking up on your benefit entitlements.
29  Unlike open ended entitlements, the voucher is tied directly to a tax.
30  This may affect your entitlement to compensation.