How to Use uncompleted in a Sentence

uncompleted

adjective
  • The uncompleted work feels as if it were never meant to be seen.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Home builders have built up a huge backlog of uncompleted homes.
    — WSJ, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Agre’s life’s work was left uncompleted, questions posed but unanswered.
    — Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Five miles farther, and the committee could have seen all the gaps in the uncompleted border wall.
    — Jon Gabriel, CNN, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The driver was able to jump out of the cab before the truck struck an uncompleted bridge and plunged into a creek below.
    — Brian Lisik, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The virtual commute home will present users with their list of tasks for the day, and ask them to move uncompleted jobs to the next day’s list.
    — Katie Deighton, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Some ballots were uncompleted; the woman promised to finish filling them out.
    — Dylan Scott, Vox, 30 Nov. 2018
  • Only two pivotal scenes from that uncompleted venture were finished, the opening and its poignant ending.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2024
  • Make a list of uncompleted items before closing and withhold an appropriate sum.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2022
  • While the cause was still not known, investigators are looking into whether uncompleted repairs were to blame.
    — NBC News, 8 July 2021
  • Property records show the uncompleted structure was already valued at more than $12 million as of this year.
    — Tony Semerad, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Oct. 2022
  • But its nuance left uncompleted work -- much like the Constitution itself.
    — Arkansas Online, 3 Jan. 2023
  • At that price, oil field operators are able to economically frack drilled, but uncompleted, wells, Helms said.
    — Mike Hughlett, Star Tribune, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Then after the Plainville gap is closed, the last remaining uncompleted stretch will be in Massachusetts.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 24 Oct. 2022
  • When Taofeek was taken from us in 1999, his school uniform, bag, and shoes were discovered by what was then an uncompleted building.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Then go to find the stunning 13-minute piece of an uncompleted documentary about the trial on Media Burn.
    — Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Democratic lawmakers will return from the holidays with a long list of uncompleted chores and unresolved issues.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 22 Dec. 2021
  • The slight similarity between this collection and Siriano's show is the concept of an uncompleted, yet strong look.
    — Kelsee Majette, The Week, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Voters elected attorney Kurt May a year ago to serve out Gonzalez’s uncompleted term.
    — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Meanwhile, experts mulled how to stabilize and remove what’s left of the uncompleted hotel building and two giant construction cranes in danger of toppling.
    — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Rodriguez, then a state representative, was sworn in eight days later, and later won a special election last year to serve out Elizondo’s uncompleted term.
    — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The Germans continued at the same pedestrian pace after halftime and Ozil had another poor display, with many of his passes uncompleted.
    — Samuel Petrequin, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2018
  • When Sherman’s amnesiac Francis gropes in song for words and definitions that now elude him, the pang of the unanswerable lingers in his uncompleted sentences.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
  • In some cases, bold new projects have ended with buildings being returned to their previous states and uses, others remain uncompleted, and an unfortunate few have been condemned to be demolished.
    — Alberto Piernas Medina, Architectural Digest, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The Germans continued at the same pedestrian pace after halftime and Mesut Ozil had another poor display, with many of his passes uncompleted.
    — Samuel Petrequin, Fox News, 27 June 2018
  • As the scholar’s grandfather was lowered into the ground, the mother received a phone call from her teacher but instead of condolences and support, this teacher demanded speaking about uncompleted homework.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Turrell’s complex of tunnels, portals, and chambers remains uncompleted and closed to the public, though a recent $10 million donation from West means it’s now supposed to open in a few years.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Up to that point, Amtrak had been negotiating with two freight operators that use the same coastal rail line; those talks involved an ongoing, uncompleted study of the passenger plan’s impact on freight service.
    — al, 6 Apr. 2021
  • In Arizona, ranchers are complaining that rough roads carved by work crews into hillsides near uncompleted segments of wall now serve as easy access points for smugglers and others seeking to enter the once-remote areas along the border.
    — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Leaders also agreed to raise their spending to meet an earlier, uncompleted goal of pledging $100 billion a year to help less wealthy countries stem their own carbon emissions and deal with the damage already wrought by climate change.
    — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 15 June 2021

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