How to Use unhealed in a Sentence

unhealed

adjective
  • Who wants to see a play that yanks the scab from unhealed wounds?
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 12 May 2017
  • For the women who were raped, the arrest opened an unhealed wound.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive.com, 23 June 2019
  • In truth, some unhealed part of me is probably even relieved by it.
    — Allison Lax, Glamour, 15 Sep. 2025
  • His failure to close with the title, though, caused a rupture that went unhealed for months.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 10 July 2017
  • For those who fought on the side of the South and were displaced, the wounds from the war remain unhealed.
    — Quyen Do, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2024
  • This love fills unhealed spaces, mends broken hearts, comforts us in grief, and reminds us of our self-worth.
    — Charity Lashai, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Sully’s old friends are still stumbling around in a reverie of fond memories and unhealed grief.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
  • How many of us are walking around with unhealed emotional wounds inflicted in junior high?
    — Shannon Hale, New York Times, 5 May 2020
  • Three front teeth were missing, and the unhealed sockets suggested they were lost at the time of death or afterward.
    — Michael E. Ruane, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2021
  • In the end we are left with a web of unhealed inferences, the lava of guilt and grief slowly covering both women.
    — Cynthia Ozick, New York Times, 14 May 2018
  • Triggers often direct your attention to unhealed wounds that need tending to.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 19 Oct. 2022
  • If people with moral injury simply try to retrain their thoughts, they may be left unsatisfied and unhealed.
    — Elizabeth Svoboda, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The parasite used to kill a large proportion of newborn fawns, whose unhealed belly buttons were open wounds.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 26 May 2020
  • Those patients should bandage or cover any unhealed lesions, wear a well-fitting mask and avoid crowded settings.
    — Grace Tooheystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2022
  • It’s been a little more than two months since Alabama’s last football game and a few injuries remain unhealed.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 19 Mar. 2021
  • But trillions of dollars have been spent, while the African–American wound remains unhealed.
    — Joshua Mitchell, National Review, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Will's effervescent, charming girlfriend with an unhealed trauma in her not-so-distant past has been sucked into a cult.
    — refinery29.com, 6 July 2018
  • But when it was built, Americans were still dying in Vietnam, the war was a raw, unhealed wound, and some saw the stark chapel as a protest.
    — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2017
  • In the middle of this bid for connection is a beautifully raw account of the physical toll of unhealed trauma.
    — Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 24 Apr. 2018
  • In the meantime, the wounds to the nation's psyche — and to the flesh and souls of Black Americans — remain unhealed.
    — Editorial Board Los Angeles Times (tns), Star Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Prosecutors said the 10-year-old suffered a broken neck, a bone protruding from an unhealed sore and bruises across her body.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
  • Those wounds are still unhealed, and, more seriously, the mechanisms for addressing them have been neglected.
    — Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2014
  • In the last two weeks, those unhealed scars have erupted into a modern-day conflagration of trench warfare, drone strikes and artillery bombardments.
    — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Priscilla Presley is no stranger to tragedy, but the death of daughter Lisa Marie Presley is a wound that remains unhealed.
    — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
  • In a more literal sense, a karmic relationship ensues when a person triggers the parts of you that remain unhealed, bringing up unhealed habits, fears, and wounds.
    — Roya Backlund, StyleCaster, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The film, a social drama, follows a headstrong and ambitious girl who is raging against an internal battle that is rooted in unhealed trauma.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 Mar. 2022
  • For many, the question of how and whether to honor their faith was never fully settled, a wound left unhealed years after the Allies liberated the camps.
    — Washington Post, 9 June 2021
  • Some 40% of the individuals had both healed and unhealed injuries, suggesting that violence was part of the fabric of life at that time.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 27 May 2021
  • There are other, more subtle obstacles to return as well, such as unhealed emotional wounds suffered during the war and years of separation.
    — Theodore Ross, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2020
  • The unhealed fissures within the south were not the driving force behind the political conflict in South Sudan over the last two years.
    — Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2014

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