How to Use unrepentant in a Sentence

unrepentant

adjective
  • Best for unrepentant heel strikers who want to jog, not slog.
    — Justin Nyberg, Outside Online, 21 Mar. 2018
  • All came adorned and unrepentant in their right to adornment.
    — Zoë Hopkins, New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Those with vast wealth and unrepentant guile are simply better at gaming the rules.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 11 July 2022
  • Then there’s the unrepentant super-wipers, a la miniature me.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2020
  • By his own account, Steve Jones was an unrepentant thief in his youth.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2022
  • In the video, she is seen holding the shoes while talking to a young man with a bike, who appears unrepentant.
    — Jessica Roy, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The group has been unrepentant over the schism with Rome, ⁠saying Leo had failed to hear its concerns.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 5 July 2026
  • Biden has been unrepentant about his decision to leave Afghanistan.
    — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2022
  • These coyotes are roving the streets in packs, like unrepentant hoodlums looking for a mark.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2022
  • This woman was a weirdo … and completely unrepentant about it.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Iris took a seat on one of the wooden benches provided for the errant and unrepentant.
    — Jocelyn McClurg, USA TODAY, 4 May 2017
  • Such is the unrepentant militancy of the right’s voter fraud witch hunt.
    — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Welles plays Falstaff as an unrepentant rogue, but also as a good man in the ways that truly matter.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The main villain, meanwhile, is irascibly unrepentant for a very long time.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Six years ago, Rich Benoit was an unrepentant petrol head who had just taken delivery of his dream ride.
    — Andrew Lawrence, Car and Driver, 23 Aug. 2020
  • For her part, Truss struck a largely unrepentant tone in her farewell address Tuesday.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Some of it was the sheer allure of mischief-making, the unrepentant reprobate being more compelling than the nice guy.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021
  • All riotous color and ebullient brushwork, the piece is the artist at his most robust, an unrepentant claiming of space.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2021
  • In terms of policies, Flake is an unrepentant free trader and globalist.
    — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 1 Aug. 2017
  • Trash cans made the story easy to understand, and defiant players and an unrepentant owner made the team easy to hate.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021
  • Her first guest was Matt Gaetz (Sarah Sherman), who was unrepentant.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Instead, Rose came across as unrepentant and wholly incapable of getting out of his own way.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 18 Jan. 2026
  • My own cubby shelves were an unrepentant mess, prone to rejecting the tank tops and shorts that my mother had written my name in with Sharpie.
    — Jamie Lauren Keiles, Vox, 5 Dec. 2018
  • If Push was the unrepentant flexer of rewind-worthy drug boasts, Malice was the conscience.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2024
  • But the unrepentant prime minister told a febrile Parliament that the court had been wrong to intervene.
    — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The former is profiting from the worst kind of fearmongering; the latter is an unrepentant racist.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 20 Nov. 2018
  • The courts may find themselves in the same position my mother did all those years ago, facing an unrepentant rule-breaker who dares them to do something about it.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025
  • The tweets were instantly condemned as racist, but the President, unrepentant, seemed to want to keep the fight going.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 18 July 2019
  • Roof, who is unrepentant, has since been sentenced to death and many of Collier’s fellow parishioners are still trying to forgive him.
    — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 17 June 2019
  • Congratulations, your moment has come to be an unrepentant know-it-all on social media.
    — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 30 Jan. 2026

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