How to Use uncelebrated in a Sentence

uncelebrated

adjective
  • What is clear is that the women’s hockey team will not go uncelebrated.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Sick and tired of working in kitchens, unseen and uncelebrated, stalling out while the people around him came up.
    — Tejal Rao, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2020
  • The weddings and anniversaries that would go uncelebrated.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
  • What inspires Acevedo more than anything else are uncelebrated heroes.
    — Monique-Marie Cummings, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2020
  • Perhaps this is why Morgan’s achievements have gone largely uncelebrated.
    — Hannah Fish, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Beyond the bounds of Delft, the living Vermeer was largely uncelebrated.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Women have been the backbone of America's economic progress in ways that often go unseen and uncelebrated.
    — John Hope Bryant, TIME, 29 July 2024
  • First, Grahm intends to plant and test a series of uncelebrated grapes that have languished in the shadows of European viticulture.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
  • Even inconspicuous and uncelebrated birds are capable of learning, and of sharing their learning with others.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
  • All San Diegans should know about this uncelebrated local school desegregation case.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2021
  • The priests and other ministers who kept serving are the uncelebrated heroes — essential workers — of the coronavirus shutdowns.
    — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 10 May 2021
  • Holidays missed, birthdays uncelebrated, grandchildren never kissed — a lifetime of memories robbed from a man whose fate hung on the words of a 9-year-old boy’s false court testimony.
    — Lauren Hernández, SFChronicle.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Her process is to immerse herself in communities and create large-scale portraits of ordinary, uncelebrated people and install them as huge banners on the sides of buildings in downtown areas.
    — Washington Post, 1 May 2021
  • Then join the millions taking advantage of a somewhat uncelebrated loyalty plan called Audience Rewards, a sort of frequent flyer program for theater fans.
    — Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2019
  • These story shards lay for a century in the Twain archives, unnoticed and uncelebrated, until their rediscovery in 2011.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2017
  • His book is an attempt to illuminate the uncelebrated dividends—both individual and communal—of pouring yourself into a cause, place, craft, or group, whether that means looking out for local cats, or something else.
    — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 1 June 2021
  • In my own experience, nearly every meaningful breakthrough came after an extended period of routine, uncelebrated effort.
    — Cody Bjugan, Forbes.com, 18 Feb. 2026
  • As biopic subjects go, Franz Kafka is resistant to standard-issue treatment on a number of levels — beginning with the fact that his life, short and largely uncelebrated in its time, wasn’t especially remarkable.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Patented 100 years ago, Hoge’s invention was the forerunner of a ubiquitous and uncelebrated device that has shaped American cities and daily life ever since-—the stoplight.
    — Megan Kate Nelson, Smithsonian, 18 Apr. 2018
  • This dedication is, according to Hinamoto, the lifeblood of the industry—the uncelebrated workers whose craftsmanship ensures the survival and global reverence of Japanese denim.
    — Jessica Binns, Sourcing Journal, 18 Mar. 2026
  • OktoberWest, the Sequel Somewhere in this galaxy, Oktoberfest is unknown and uncelebrated.
    — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2019
  • That would be the Lincoln Academy, a commendable but nevertheless relatively uncelebrated nonprofit, non-partisan organization that has been around since the mid-1960s and will induct a new group on April 11 in ceremonies on the campus of Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville.
    — Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2026

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