How to Use unfinished in a Sentence

unfinished

adjective
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  • Toriyama worked for 45 years and still had unfinished work at the time of his death.
    — Arata Yamamoto, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The large basement, which can be reached from the home or garage, is unfinished.
    — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Yet the team still has a bit of unfinished business to take care of with two games left.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Some made it, but some didn’t and had to leave the unfinished work crying.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 June 2024
  • The toilet is on an outside wall on the main floor, above the unfinished part of my basement.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
  • In fact, they could be sold at any time while the game remained unfinished.
    — Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2023
  • This movie seems to me, on some level, to be about the unfinished work of the civil-rights movement.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The roof is chevron-shaped, similar to the entrance below, and the walls are unfinished.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Beers convinced Smith to pay him upfront, then left most of the work unfinished.
    — Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica, 25 Feb. 2023
  • As the deadline loomed, the lyrics remained unfinished.
    — David Peisner, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
  • One of the primary goals of this trip to Niger is to gather what had been left unfinished.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Sometimes the best way to manifest the nature of stone is to leave it unfinished.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The building lacked walls on two sides, but a single light bulb hung from the unfinished ceiling.
    — WSJ, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The purpose of the software is unclear and as of 2020 appeared unfinished.
    — Ryan W. Briggs, Max Marin and William Bender, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2023
  • Keep in mind that this wax needs to sit on the wood floor for at least 20 minutes (sometimes more, if your floor is unfinished).
    — Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Nov. 2023
  • In one classroom there is an unfinished chess game one of the slain students had been playing.
    — CBS News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Still, civil rights leaders said the fight for equal rights is unfinished.
    — Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The still house was unfinished, lacking windows and doors.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2023
  • There were a bunch, but the sequence that was probably the most unfinished was the Nurburgring crash.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Aug. 2023
  • In one classroom, there is an unfinished chess game one of the slain students had been playing, the pieces unmoved.
    — Terry Spencer and Freida Frisaro, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Built in 1920, the home also includes an unfinished basement and a new deck.
    — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 12 July 2024
  • Smoke alarms aren't required in unfinished attics, a storage area or in the kitchen.
    — Gina Lee Castro, Journal Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The unfinished book became a running joke in the Sherwin household.
    — Andy Kifer, New York Times, 11 July 2023
  • At the time of the interview, Taylor-Joy hadn’t yet seen anything beyond an unfinished cut of the film.
    — Zoe G Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
  • In a way, this, for us, is a way to go back and address some unfinished business, which is that sort of dangling thread from the end of Monkey 2.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Judge arguably has some unfinished business in the Bronx.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Before moving on to the next chapter of my life, there is some unfinished business.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Seen from above, the field of stone graves looks almost like an unfinished cobblestone street.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 1 July 2024
  • Also on the level are two bedrooms, a bathroom, a bonus room, a workout area, a granite countertop bar area with seating, and two unfinished storage rooms.
    — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Pay attention to the way people interrupt each other, change subjects abruptly or leave thoughts unfinished.
    — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2024

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