How to Use unfulfilled in a Sentence

unfulfilled

adjective
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  • This idea struck us as too good to leave unfulfilled, and a plan was hatched.
    — New York Times, 17 July 2022
  • No one needs to school Black and Gold fans in the pain of unfulfilled playoff runs.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2021
  • But any promise of a wet end to a dry streak seemed unfulfilled.
    — Washington Post, 17 May 2021
  • That plea seems to have gone unfulfilled with Wednesday's news that the revival is no longer in the works.
    — Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Oh, boy, the metaverse, the unfulfilled promises of the metaverse.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2022
  • His goal to win a Gold Glove has remained unfulfilled since.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The movie’s potential remains unfulfilled, as if it weren’t filmed in the first place but were still a script.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2022
  • And so much of the promise of that memorable draft night has been left unfulfilled.
    — Mark Maske, courant.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • But the Ravens have been left unfulfilled, stuck with more questions than answers.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Sanctions could fade or the pledges of stronger defense go unfulfilled.
    — Richard Fontaine, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
  • For the Red Sox, the trade deadline represented the unfulfilled pursuit of a starter who can help for years to come.
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Her plans went unfulfilled, though, due to a lack of donations.
    — Jillian Keenan, Wired, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Now all fans can do is hope that unfulfilled wish isn’t the most exciting thing that happens in 2021.
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2021
  • But most of the chargers in these four states predate an unfulfilled promise to roll out 500 new charger ports by the end of last year.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 20 Mar. 2023
  • As members of the Black Student Union, the group felt that their pushes to make the school more inclusive went unfulfilled.
    — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Every unfulfilled item could cost Gillette a bit of tip money.
    — Ellen McCarthy, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2020
  • But what many saw as an unimaginable feat of endurance still carried, for him, the sting of an unfulfilled dream.
    — New York Times, 18 Jan. 2021
  • At the same time, Gilbert Martineau was feeling unfulfilled.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN, 5 May 2021
  • Nine years and two Cup runs later, the repeat has become the promise unfulfilled.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Feb. 2020
  • There’s certainly a version of the series where Guillermo remains unfulfilled all the way to the end.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2023
  • One of the unfulfilled demands of the 2019 protests was direct election of the city’s chief executive.
    — Zen Soo and Vincent Yu, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2022
  • One of the unfulfilled demands of the 2019 protests was direct election of the city's chief executive.
    — Zen Soo and Vincent Yu, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2022
  • This gives us hope, but most of these promises remain unfulfilled.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The image captures a breakup and the unfulfilled dream of a domestic space with a family.
    — Eva Recinos, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
  • But the promises have gone unfulfilled or have been undermined by cuts.
    — Jeffery C. Mays, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The day was a success, pushing her in the direction of a dream that had gone unfulfilled until Open Table came along.
    — Leila Atassi, cleveland.com, 27 June 2019
  • Every to-do list is a midlife crisis of unfulfilled promise.
    — Clive Thompson, Wired, 27 July 2021
  • Musk, of course, has a bad habit of making ambitious promises that go unfulfilled, but this is not one of those instances.
    — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Taylor Wilson: Why have so many of these promises remained unfulfilled?
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 28 May 2024
  • Anecdotally and perhaps predictably, the movie about an angry unfulfilled at-home mom played better for women than men.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 16 Sep. 2024

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