How to Use unfinished in a Sentence

unfinished

adjective
  • There are a lot of unfinished dreams still there.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 11 June 2026
  • Don’t leave us with an unfinished job.
    — Cole Sullivan, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The power is back on, but the house is still unfinished.
    — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
  • At both ends, line up the unfinished layers and stitch across.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Feb. 2022
  • In fact, they could be sold at any time while the game remained unfinished.
    — Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2023
  • What’s unfinished in your eyes?
    — Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Some made it, but some didn’t and had to leave the unfinished work crying.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 June 2024
  • The large basement, which can be reached from the home or garage, is unfinished.
    — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Yet the team still has a bit of unfinished business to take care of with two games left.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Looking to spruce up that unfinished room with a pop of color?
    — Kiana Murden, CNN Underscored, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The building’s unfinished cedar siding will age with time, like the rest of us.
    — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Not a bad way to mature an unfinished young person.
    — Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Still, civil rights leaders said the fight for equal rights is unfinished.
    — Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Sharing an unfinished thought is a subtle act of courage.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • But each has some unfinished business to tidy up first, which is the focus of most of the movie.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2022
  • The hotel had an unfinished feel.
    — Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Toriyama worked for 45 years and still had unfinished work at the time of his death.
    — Arata Yamamoto, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The sides are unfinished as the unit is not meant to stand on its own or at the end of a countertop.
    — Anthony Marcusa, chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Nerves weren't keeping her up — the unfinished wedding cake in the kitchen was.
    — Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Grab a set of unfinished wood plaques ($26 for eight, Michaels).
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 May 2021
  • But that album struck me as fussy, unfinished, soft somehow.
    — Dan Kois, Pitchfork, 17 May 2026
  • There are many reasons for things ending up unfinished.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Some are unfinished, their massive pedestals hinting at what would’ve been.
    — Barry Neild, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Jiang and the rest of the crew reunite and resume work on their unfinished feature.
    — Yangyang Cheng, NPR, 4 Oct. 2025
  • In one classroom there is an unfinished chess game one of the slain students had been playing.
    — CBS News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The toilet is on an outside wall on the main floor, above the unfinished part of my basement.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Everyone loved the song, but Gill felt it was unfinished in some way.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The building lacked walls on two sides, but a single light bulb hung from the unfinished ceiling.
    — WSJ, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Beers convinced Smith to pay him upfront, then left most of the work unfinished.
    — Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Arbery had, in fact, stopped at the unfinished home the afternoon of his death.
    — Christian Boone, ajc, 23 Feb. 2021

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