How to Use unspent in a Sentence

unspent

adjective
Definition of unspentnext
  • The same is true of the clawback of $30 billion in unspent Covid funds.
    — The Editors, National Review, 30 May 2023
  • All the unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hallow of your chest.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2024
  • In fact, some of these dollars remain unspent by the state.
    — Cole Lauterbach, Washington Examiner, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Most of the state’s unspent child care funds last year — more than $204 million — came from state preschool alone.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2023
  • If unspent, it will be used as one-time funding for the next fiscal year.
    — oregonlive, 15 Dec. 2022
  • All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat and in that hollow part of your chest.
    — Giovana Gelhoren, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2022
  • But the program never launched and the money sat unspent.
    — oregonlive, 17 June 2020
  • The corkscrew design was a copy of gun worms used in the 1600s to remove unspent charges jammed in a musket’s barrel.
    — Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • The aide said about $700 billion remains in unspent virus aid.
    — Lisa Mascaro and Jonathan Lemire, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2021
  • Any unspent amount carries over to the next season on top of the minimum.
    — New York Times, 24 July 2022
  • The next great unspent cash pile is at the Department of Health and Human Services.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 July 2021
  • The report said there is as much as $21 billion of unspent money tied up in unused and lost gift cards.
    — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 23 Feb. 2023
  • After that, states will be forced to tap unspent WIC money to keep the program going.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Most of the unspent money was set aside or planned for a specific program or project.
    — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Kidd said these transfers are often done as a means to keep the unspent travel money.
    — Anna Beahm, al.com, 21 June 2019
  • The foundation used the leftover unspent funds to purchase food from Hungry Jack and then gave out that food.
    — Elliott Lapin, Houston Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2020
  • But while many have been helped, millions of dollars in aid remain unspent.
    — Kate Santich, orlandosentinel.com, 6 July 2021
  • This debate concerned money from the unspent portion of the $4 billion that Congress sent to the state under the Cares Act.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2020
  • Others are burned out from too many long shifts, late nights and unspent vacation days.
    — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021
  • But Patrizia is not going to let that fortune go unspent.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 25 Nov. 2021
  • The money was the unspent surplus for state government for the budget year that ended June 30.
    — USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2019
  • After that, any unspent money must be returned to the U.S. Treasury.
    — Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2021
  • Some of the unspent money could be used to offset costs for the statewide primary on June 7 or the general election on Nov. 8.
    — John Myers, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • In the past, the fund has been well-stocked, regularly carrying over unspent money from year to year.
    — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 14 June 2019
  • Lab results confirmed the unspent round had been cycled through Allen's Sig Sauer, the affidavit said.
    — Amanda Watts, CNN, 2 Dec. 2022
  • During the Covid-19 crisis, redemption of points has stopped, but not their issuance, leading to a surge in unspent miles.
    — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Despite the move, Tufts does not plan to return the unspent portion of the family's donation.
    — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Some of those resources could go unspent if Biden continues to hold what looks like a dominant lead in the polls of Michigan over Trump.
    — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 7 July 2020
  • Meanwhile, critics fear the state’s pile of unspent fuel, sales and mileage tax receipts will keep growing and are renewing their call for gasoline and other tax cuts.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2024
  • Trump, having vowed to rescind unspent IRA funds if elected, seems poised to hamper the law’s rollout, slowing efforts to get the country using more clean energy.
    — Vox Staff, Vox, 24 Oct. 2024

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