How to Use unquestioning in a Sentence

unquestioning

adjective
  • I am truly disturbed by her unquestioning acceptance of authority.
  • Her dog panting, unquestioning, always thrilled to see her.
    — Allegra Goodman, New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2026
  • But this portrait is too clean, too unquestioning, too accepting, to get to the marrow.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021
  • This is a woman raised free, with an unquestioning confidence in herself.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2017
  • But more and more this paper-thin spectacle is praised with an unquestioning fanaticism.
    — John Maus, WSJ, 21 May 2018
  • Myers is content to wait out the pandemic with the same unquestioning patience.
    — Olivia Goldhill, STAT, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Dogs also provide an unquestioning source of comfort and support, says James.
    — Phil Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 9 May 2022
  • And Miller has cast himself as an unquestioning backer of the former president.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Politicians, media and other influencers appeal to emotions and fear to weaponize these unquestioning minds and build armies.
    — Ahmad Kareh, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2022
  • The killings of Black people, when they were covered in the white press, were often sensational and unquestioning.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Generations of families will keep unquestioning faith with a bank or airline.
    — Leanne Kemp, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
  • What nettled him was the news media’s unquestioning reiteration of that claim.
    — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018
  • No wonder the police and some of their unquestioning lackeys in the political arena are trying to shut this avenue down.
    — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 28 June 2017
  • Which is not to say that there aren’t reflective Republicans or unquestioning Democrats; of course there are.
    — Laura Akers, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2020
  • Every resident's needs are met by the company, as long as its residents provide unquestioning commitment to their cause.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Was there ever a time when Americans had unquestioning faith in federal law-enforcement agencies?
    — Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review, 17 June 2019
  • Also, keep in mind that using any tool, without going to extremes, will result in not an unquestioning development plan for years to come, but rather, hypotheses.
    — Sergej Derzap, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Kemp is one of hundreds of thousands of Americans who offered their unquestioning loyalty to a travel company for years.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 1 Jan. 2021
  • Margaret, accustomed to unquestioning deference, had never met anyone like him.
    — Julie Miller, Vanities, 13 Jan. 2017
  • To the AmeriCorps member, and to many others, patriotism has meant not so much love of country as unquestioning devotion to it.
    — Leslie Lenkowsky, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The Democratic Party is no longer a redoubt of unquestioning support for Israel.
    — Ron Kampeas, sun-sentinel.com, 8 June 2021
  • In order to be a success, there must be unquestioning clarity around the extent to which these new credits actually result in emissions reductions.
    — Felicia Jackson, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Dumb as a rock, or just an unquestioning Tom Clancy hero for whom the answer to a military conspiracy is more military, and more secrecy.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Unabashed, unquestioning loyalty is not.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The era of unquestioning admiration and imitation of Soviet writers was over.
    — Sophie Pinkham, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Greg Hildreth smolders and explodes as the righteous but smug Mark, whose rigidity is driven by his unquestioning optimism in God’s long-term plan for the Jews.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2022
  • To write one’s way out of the incapacitating dependence of daughterhood into autonomy means shedding the unquestioning fidelity of a child.
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Yet an important stock market yardstick — the price-earnings ratio — suggests investors have an almost unquestioning faith in Netflix’s ability to notch fast-growing earnings.
    — Peter Eavis, The Seattle Times, 16 Oct. 2018
  • Given his own experience with these laws, Drakeo remains frustrated with the public’s unquestioning faith in the infallibility of police.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 1 Sep. 2020
  • By the end of the film, the world — from government powers to common citizens — comes together with unquestioning alacrity to help build teleportation devices in an effort to save the Earth by relocating it.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025

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