How to Use unchallenged in a Sentence

unchallenged

adjective
  • But her skills don’t go unchallenged at home.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2026
  • For years, that version of events went unchallenged.
    — Sydney Brownstone, NPR, 11 June 2026
  • The claim went unchallenged by the show's host, Charles Payne.
    — Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, azcentral, 11 May 2018
  • The gunman took an Uber to the school and walked in the open gate, unchallenged.
    — Megan O'Matz, Sun-Sentinel.com, 22 June 2018
  • In many points in the city, the cartel gunmen went unchallenged.
    — Ioan Grillo, Time, 18 Oct. 2019
  • But in the end, this group has remained stable and unchallenged.
    — Scott Patsko, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Bradbury, last year's first-round pick, is unchallenged but still needs to improve.
    — Mark Craig, Star Tribune, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Even so, the menace has never gone unchallenged.
    — Valerie L. Myers, The Conversation, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Yet Putin’s unchallenged grip on power gives him leverage in any peace process.
    — Nathan Hodge, CNN Money, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The intruder walked to the back of the plane and left unchallenged after a few minutes.
    — Robert Burns, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2021
  • When that story goes unchallenged, stigma sticks.
    — Emily Tanner, The Conversation, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The app has existed unchallenged on the App Store for more than three years.
    — Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 22 May 2021
  • Despite the high stakes, each side let a few errors go unchallenged when the voter’s intent was clear.
    — Arit John, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2020
  • The police and fire contracts, long unchallenged, would bankrupt the city within a few decades.
    — New York Times, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The chain grew relatively unchallenged for many years in the country.
    — Ryan Baker, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2025
  • And that’s the extreme rhetoric that has not only gone unchallenged, but has gotten more and more extreme as the years have gone on.
    — Haleema Shah, Vox, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The machine has held this seat unchallenged since 1962 and Li will break that grasp.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 25 June 2024
  • No one is a greater believer in artistic freedom than I, but this cannot go unchallenged.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Brown ran unchallenged, winning his second term on the board with 100 percent of the vote.
    — Jeff Forward, Houston Chronicle, 19 Aug. 2020
  • The accuracy of Nike’s past wage claims didn’t go unchallenged.
    — Matthew Kish, ProPublica, 30 Jan. 2026
  • But only Foley has the courage to challenge Wu and make sure her rhetoric doesn’t go unchallenged.
    — Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 5 June 2025
  • Since then, the Red Bull driver has won two more titles largely unchallenged.
    — Madeline Coleman, The Athletic, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The silence of the sperm whales went unchallenged until 1957.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The 2022 group looked to be on that pace, spending most of the last year in the nation’s top spot unchallenged.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2021
  • All of this was based on an unchallenged trust that prices would continuously rise in an era sustained by cheap money and low rates.
    — Amachie Ackah, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025
  • More than half of the 18 races for county board seats went unchallenged in this election cycle, a repeat from two years ago.
    — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 8 Apr. 2026
  • More than half of the 18 races for board seats went unchallenged in an election night that resulted in four new faces joining the board.
    — Vanessa Swales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The United States is no longer the unchallenged global hegemon.
    — John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Without it, many go unchallenged and disengage.
    — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Nov. 2025
  • In the past, full-time in-office work was the unchallenged norm, the default modus operandi for businesses worldwide.
    — Gleb Tsipursky, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023

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