How to Use neglected in a Sentence

neglected

adjective
  • Some of the time, great but neglected songs still bob to the surface.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 26 May 2021
  • There’s a lot of wealthy men that can help raise money to men’s health, which is very neglected.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Some of these countries are among the most neglected and conflict-ridden in the world.
    — Folashade Soule, Quartz Africa, 21 Nov. 2020
  • Masses were held so that souls wouldn't feel neglected and haunt believers.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 26 Oct. 2017
  • But in other countries, snakebite is a real and neglected problem.
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2016
  • More important than these technical skills, which is often not posed as urgent, and so neglected, are the new rules of the game.
    — Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • One of the more difficult parts of watching this episode back is seeing Annaliese feeling so neglected and so hurt.
    — Arie Luyendyk Jr., PEOPLE.com, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Yassiada was once a solemn and neglected place, with a handful of decaying, overgrown buildings.
    — The Economist, 13 Mar. 2021
  • As long as there’s offline film history to be brought online, or new but neglected content, there’s a role for people who care enough to memorialize it.
    — WIRED, 21 Feb. 2023
  • This week the rocker saw that dream come to fruition with the opening of Janie's House, a home for abused and neglected girls just outside Atlanta.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 8 Dec. 2017
  • The book addresses itself to an urgent but neglected set of questions arising from a paradigm shift in human self-conception.
    — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Many of those Christians live in the often undeveloped, neglected periphery states.
    — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 17 Aug. 2018
  • Take a picture of an empty or neglected tequila bottle at home and upload it to the Mango Shotta site on Wednesday.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 24 July 2024
  • Different branches of the Gradenigo family had retained the other apartments on that floor, which was mostly intact, if a bit neglected.
    — Gisela Williams Diego Mayon, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Perkins also plans concerts with favorite and neglected gems by Bach, Telemann, Vivaldi, and others.
    — James Bash | , oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2023
  • City residents in neglected parts of the city often struggle to get home repair loans from banks because the loans are considered financially risky, Hernandez said.
    — Lucas Daprile, cleveland, 26 Oct. 2022
  • By the early 21st century, Brussels was left with a surfeit of empty or neglected structures, attracting young creatives priced out of artistic centers like Berlin, London and Paris.
    — Alice Rawsthorn, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2017

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