How to Use unmet in a Sentence

unmet

adjective
  • Youth Crews grew out of this unmet need and his love for her.
    — Parents Editors, Parents, 22 July 2025
  • Months and years have been wasted while the needs of many remain unmet.
    — Thomas Snitch, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2015
  • Their son’s autism brought home the unmet needs of those with the disorder.
    — Lynn Elber, chicagotribune.com, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Winnicott argued that our ego is shaped in a web of met and unmet needs.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Rare disease is arguably the largest disease area of unmet need around the world.
    — Craig Martin, STAT, 23 July 2022
  • But there’s also likely to be some unmet promises in those claims.
    — Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2022
  • Left unmet, their demands could evolve into pressure for regime change.
    — William A. Galston, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018
  • And yet even in the state with the most expansive programs, there is still unmet demand.
    — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 16 May 2018
  • People of color are nearly twice as likely to have an unmet need for leave than white workers.
    — Clio Chang, New Republic, 9 Aug. 2017
  • With basic needs already unmet, many will not be able to afford to celebrate this year.
    — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2021
  • But, in medicine, that’s an unmet need, says Christoph Nabzdyk, a surgeon on the Mayo team.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Meet Tyler Buchanan, the man who knows too much about the unmet needs of his community.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 18 Mar. 2018
  • In other words, there’s billions of dollars’ worth of football demand that goes unmet each year.
    — Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Three-quarters of the homes with unmet needs are in the Houston-Galveston area.
    — Mike Snyder, Houston Chronicle, 22 Jan. 2018
  • So yes, this pattern of anger, disrespect, unmet needs, and ending your walks alone is your normal.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Halibut fishing at all depths has been opened to seven days a week, as is nearshore fishing, with quotas still unmet.
    — oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2022
  • Nurx founder Hans Gangeskar said statistics show that his app is filling an unmet need there.
    — Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2017
  • And 56 percent of them said that waste management had the greatest unmet need.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Zhang, who was not involved in the study, says that the work is worthwhile and that such technology might serve an unmet need.
    — Maddie Bender, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The hallway is a space uneasy with expectation and tense with the force of unmet desire.
    — Longreads, 20 July 2019
  • Over the years, some of these city-specific demands have evolved, some have been successful, and many have gone unmet.
    — NBC News, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Often, Blue says, the cause of a jealousy attack is a specific fear or unmet need.
    — Bahar Gholipour, CNN, 6 Apr. 2018
  • In 2020, over half of small businesses had unmet funding needs.
    — Randy Garrett, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Hers about loneliness and sadness and unmet expectations and the fear that this was what adulthood would be like.
    — Hazlitt, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Yes, unmet demand for technical workers is a problem, but these roles are a small fraction of the talent banks need.
    — Alan McIntyre, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The state faces $9 billion in unfunded highway projects over the next decade, on top of unmet needs at the local level.
    — Brian Eason, The Denver Post, 21 May 2017
  • In these types of exceptional situations, this should be the norm, not — as is now the case — a goal that often goes unmet.
    — Satsuki Ina, Time, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Another 25% of adults in that same age group reported having an unmet health care needs because of cost in the past year.
    — Sara Chernikoff, USA TODAY, 26 July 2024
  • Any treatment for Alzheimer’s, one of the biggest unmet medical needs, could be worth tens of billions of dollars.
    — Charley Grant, WSJ, 13 July 2018
  • The company folded within a year, leaving behind a trail of unmet promises to nearly 50 dancers from around the world.
    — Brooke Stangeland, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2024

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