How to Use unpunished in a Sentence

unpunished

adjective
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  • But about 60% of the onboard crimes have gone unpunished, the study found.
    — Hugo Martin, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • One of its own was killed by a white gang, a murder that has gone unpunished.
    — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
  • No good deed goes unpunished in a breakneck movie that will not let up.
    — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 29 July 2020
  • But what kind of coach lets a star player linked to murder go unpunished?
    — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Coupled with that was a cold-eyed ethos of leaving no slight unpunished.
    — www.latimes.com, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Of course, now that Westworld’s robots have gone rogue, the Man in Black may not go unpunished in season two.
    — Lynda Clark, Smithsonian, 21 Apr. 2018
  • Linares did not want Toledo's killing to go unpunished.
    — Fabiola SÁnchez, ajc, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The heinous disregard for Ms. Mooney’s life will not go unpunished.
    — Andy Rose, CNN, 23 Feb. 2024
  • But the Ukrainian strikes on Snake Island did not appear to have gone unpunished.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2022
  • Biden promised that the U.S., along with its allies and partners, would not let any support for Putin's land grab go unpunished.
    — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Its hero is keenly aware of the unpunished crimes committed by his own precinct.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 20 May 2021
  • Even a below-par French team would not let those numbers go unpunished.
    — Daniel Gallan, CNN, 2 Oct. 2019
  • And if that’s the case, this will be yet another unpunished case of racial terrorism.
    — Stefani Reynolds, Miami Herald, 13 June 2024
  • For more than 35 years, her killing in coastal South Florida went unpunished.
    — Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Again, this is the kind of tackle that, before last week, would have been on report and copped a suspension, but which went unpunished at the time.
    — Mike Meehall Wood, Forbes, 19 May 2021
  • The coup that did not succeed in overturning the election goes unpunished.
    — Mark Danner, The New York Review of Books, 1 July 2021
  • Against a team as stout as Covington Catholic, these types of errors will rarely go unpunished.
    — Evan Merrill, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2023
  • That doesn’t mean the crimes will go unpunished—the cases will likely end up in state court and they’ll be managed locally.
    — Leon Neyfakh, Slate Magazine, 15 May 2017
  • The report noted that most of the abuses have remained unpunished.
    — Yuras Karmanau, Star Tribune, 2 July 2021
  • Those horrors, along with other racial crimes, will not go unpunished, Cheeks said.
    — Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner, 23 June 2020
  • Ramos stepped away from the scene unpunished and Salah soon managed to step up after overcoming the initial pain.
    — Rob Harris, Houston Chronicle, 26 May 2018
  • Hundreds of murders such as Ling Sing’s would go unpunished before the statute was repealed in 1872.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Then, as now, the killer fashions himself as an avenger, bringing justice to those whose crimes have gone unpunished.
    — New York Times, 4 June 2018
  • The assault on the Capitol was appalling and the attack on Capitol police cannot go unpunished.
    — Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Bodies are everywhere, pushing and pulling and doing all the normal things that go unpunished on Hail Marys at the end of halves.
    — Star Tribune, 13 Dec. 2020
  • The same is true in other places where gendered violence tends to go unpunished.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Not that the crime should have gone unpunished, but how does this penalty serve the interest of the victims, the criminals or the taxpayers?
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 7 June 2017
  • She was put under house arrest in 2014 because her theft of public funds was too much to go unpunished.
    — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
  • And such shortcomings will not go unpunished Sunday in Marseille against Germany, a perennial titan that claimed a 3-0 victory of its own over Australia.
    — Steven Goff, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
  • In fiction, such arrogance rarely goes unpunished, and Long Island Compromise is no exception.
    — Adelle Waldman, The Atlantic, 9 July 2024

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