How to Use unfulfilled in a Sentence

unfulfilled

adjective
  • This idea struck us as too good to leave unfulfilled, and a plan was hatched.
    — New York Times, 17 July 2022
  • But any promise of a wet end to a dry streak seemed unfulfilled.
    — Washington Post, 17 May 2021
  • Watch out for unfulfilled claims.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Hers was not a quest to satiate a life unfulfilled.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 3 Feb. 2026
  • This gives us hope, but most of these promises remain unfulfilled.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Sanctions could fade or the pledges of stronger defense go unfulfilled.
    — Richard Fontaine, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Her plans went unfulfilled, though, due to a lack of donations.
    — Jillian Keenan, Wired, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Have staffing changes led to longer wait times or unfulfilled appointments?
    — Patricia Ortiz, Charlotte Observer, 12 Mar. 2026
  • And so much of the promise of that memorable draft night has been left unfulfilled.
    — Mark Maske, courant.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Every unfulfilled item could cost Gillette a bit of tip money.
    — Ellen McCarthy, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2020
  • But the promises have gone unfulfilled or have been undermined by cuts.
    — Jeffery C. Mays, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • No one needs to school Black and Gold fans in the pain of unfulfilled playoff runs.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2021
  • Yet for months, the most obvious union in the game remained unfulfilled.
    — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • But the Ravens have been left unfulfilled, stuck with more questions than answers.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 26 Apr. 2021
  • His promise to lower prices and housing costs has gone unfulfilled.
    — Gregg Carlstrom, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2018
  • But those asks remain unfulfilled.
    — David Miliband, Time, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The movie’s potential remains unfulfilled, as if it weren’t filmed in the first place but were still a script.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2022
  • That plea seems to have gone unfulfilled with Wednesday's news that the revival is no longer in the works.
    — Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2020
  • The low patient volume—just six to eight a day—also left him feeling unfulfilled.
    — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
  • There’s also the risk that the promise of a tearful catharsis will go unfulfilled.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Oh, boy, the metaverse, the unfulfilled promises of the metaverse.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2022
  • She will be determined not to become a tale of promise unfulfilled.
    — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2025
  • But what many saw as an unimaginable feat of endurance still carried, for him, the sting of an unfulfilled dream.
    — New York Times, 18 Jan. 2021
  • More often than not, their dreams of wealth, power, influence and fame went unfulfilled.
    — Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Beneath her sense of duty is a crushing loneliness and the prospect of a life unfulfilled.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The military government is on the back foot because its three main coup aims are unfulfilled.
    — George Styllis, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2018
  • Those rocky years of unfulfilled love bonded Philadelphians in a way that little else could.
    — Solomon Jones, Philly.com, 5 June 2018
  • The unfinished film is partly the result of unfulfilled hopes.
    — Armond White, National Review, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Nine years and two Cup runs later, the repeat has become the promise unfulfilled.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Musk, of course, has a bad habit of making ambitious promises that go unfulfilled, but this is not one of those instances.
    — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 1 Nov. 2021

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