How to Use unready in a Sentence

unready

adjective
  • Successors are unready when the call comes.
    — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Using an unhealthy or unready starter can lead to a weak rise, a dense crumb, a flat loaf, or off flavors.
    — Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Stan may have met someone, have other commitments or felt unready to make one with you.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 21 Sep. 2022
  • They got trounced both times, wholly unready for the Warriors’ brand of humbling.
    — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 27 Sep. 2019
  • The host Fire, in their first playoff game in five years, appeared unready and overwhelmed.
    — Brian Straus, SI.com, 25 Oct. 2017
  • If the offense is getting worse — and Fields looks unready to play — that’s a big problem for them.
    — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 29 Sep. 2021
  • An unready owner sees it as a personal attack.
    — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • He's seen players deemed unready one season improve enough to make a team the following year.
    — Eliza McGraw, chicagotribune.com, 19 May 2018
  • Unwrapped and unready, the pile appeared daunting, The work still to do should have made their dreams haunting.
    — Sally Higginson, chicagotribune.com, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Stop falling for the line that we Russians are unsuited to, or unready for, freedom.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Still, the effort shows the administration is unready to give up on the policy.
    — Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff and Corinne Dorsey, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2023
  • Even those who voted against the Democratic amendments said Alaska is unready to vote by mail.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Babis said after a meeting on Thursday the president remained unready to act.
    — Washington Post, 12 July 2019
  • If a tropical town like Lahaina can burn, which other cities are also at risk—and totally unready for it?
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 15 Aug. 2023
  • On the other hand, if Warren had been obtuse, ignorant, and unready, that wouldn’t have worked, either.
    — Katha Pollitt, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2020
  • In some aircraft fleets, including the B-1B bomber, there are more mission-ready planes than unready ones.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2022
  • Congress is likely unready for a debate about the limitations of the legal system.
    — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 23 June 2021
  • No one wants unready tech on public roads, but for anyone who has bought into the technology’s promise to save lives, the delay is a bummer.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 11 May 2018
  • Unfortunately, this is not a pleasant nose as it’s dominated by raw, varnish notes and feels unready.
    — Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes, 29 June 2022
  • Just as excellence can, in certain moods, strike us as a reproach, Shirley Hazzard has a way of unnerving the unready.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2020
  • If Orion is deemed unready for the TLI burn, Artemis 2 will get no farther than Earth orbit.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 2 Apr. 2026
  • There are usually four batches released per year, each with a name referencing some piece of Beam history, but sometimes there will be less if the whiskey is deemed unready.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 15 July 2022
  • America’s Navy is unready for this kind of grinding logistical endeavor.
    — Craig Hooper, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Andrews has gone viral multiple times for demystifying how ballroom dancers get ready, and, more specifically, unready.
    — Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 12 Apr. 2026
  • One that did not, really, was handing the series to an unready producer with a history of speaking freely and loosely in a manner lacking a certain dignity.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 20 Aug. 2021
  • And yet the show is purpose-built not to elevate or to celebrate Winbush but to somewhat ruthlessly pull apart the ways in which she might be made to look unready for the job and unsteady on her feet.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 10 July 2023
  • This source blames Navarro for the confusion, which meant the Capitol Hill delegation came to the meeting ready to fight and unready to compromise.
    — Nihal Krishan, Washington Examiner, 12 July 2020
  • Again, the study found that people of color and low-income individuals accounted for a disproportionate share of people who were considered unready.
    — Juliet Isselbacher, STAT, 5 Aug. 2020
  • And government was clearly unready, scrambling to hire Cobol programmers to update 50-year-old unemployment-claims systems.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2020
  • But raising kids to follow rules and memorize answers prepares them for jobs that may no longer exist, leaving them unready for a world that rewards creativity, curiosity and problem-solving.
    — Vivienne Ming, CNBC, 24 Mar. 2026

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