How to Use unrequited in a Sentence

unrequited

adjective
  • This film is for all the pre-teens and young adults who go through unrequited love.
    — Melanie Curry, ELLE, 7 May 2022
  • What’s a 5’1 girl with an unrequited love for jeans to do?
    — Talia Abbas, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2025
  • In the film, set in the port town of Nantes, most loves sadly go unrequited.
    — Carmel Dagan, Variety, 18 June 2024
  • His book is an unrequited love story, told in fragments, through the lens of death.
    — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2021
  • The catalog of unrequited hopes and hearts is a long one.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2026
  • If the sailors didn’t respond, the nymphs would dash themselves on the rocks for unrequited love.
    — Nina Burleigh, New York Times, 21 May 2024
  • But the novella is not merely about one man’s unrequited love.
    — Merve Emre, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • There's first love, unrequited love, crazy love and that very special, yet novel, rom-com kind of love.
    — Usa Today Staff, USA TODAY, 7 May 2022
  • Our motomami is treating a bad case of unrequited love with un delirio de grandeza.
    — Vulture, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Mayya is at her Singer sewing machine, dreaming of a love unrequited.
    — James Wood, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
  • But the yearning in many of his best lyrics is for an unrequited ardor that is equally beyond reach.
    — Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The ballerina’s life in the film takes a twist when an unrequited love turns fatal.
    — Jessica Gelt, latimes.com, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The truth, though, is that an unrequited crush is not always unhealthy or unfair to its object.
    — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The audience would sigh over that universal pain of a first unrequited love.
    — Lisa Bonos, Washington Post, 2 July 2019
  • Maysa has grown resigned, but Farouk remains in a poignant unrequited love affair with the dream.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Oldies music about unrequited love and hot-and-heavy, back-seat romance warms the cool, early-morning air.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Poor George takes this as an encouragement, the woes of unrequited love.
    — Kristin Vartan, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Some have no jokes at all, but plenty of romance, filled with the yearning of unrequited or forbidden love.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 23 Oct. 2022
  • And just like first love, the pain of unrequited love can be particularly acute for first-time buyers.
    — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2017
  • The Cougars’ overtures to the Big 12 have gone unrequited for some time.
    — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 22 July 2021
  • And for Cub fans, 108 years of patience and unrequited love down to one moment.
    — Time Staff, Time, 22 May 2017
  • Songwriter Eunsoo asks her best friend to stay with her for two weeks to help her write lyrics for a song about unrequited love.
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Echo was also known for her unrequited love for Narcissus.
    — Fiona Tapp, Parents, 1 Apr. 2026
  • This totally debunks the myth that women are the ones who *~fall so fast~* and spend all their time quoting songs about unrequited love.
    — Mallory Schlossberg, Redbook, 20 Feb. 2017
  • And still the thirst for the man in the half-mask and his unrequited love for his muse, Christine Daaé, continues.
    — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Attendees can drop their name into a hat to tell a 5-minute story of love gone bad, from the anguish of unrequited love to the sting of a breakup.
    — al, 7 Feb. 2020
  • On paper, Agatha Christie staged some of the world’s grimmest homicides, springing from greed, rage and unrequited love.
    — Anna Russell, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2017
  • Despite the rugged exterior of the song, there is a tender charm in the lyrics that describes an unrequited romance.
    — Grace Ann Natanawan, SPIN, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The song’s top-tapping, finger-snapping melody plays in perfect counterpoint to the tale of unrequited love.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 30 Apr. 2022
  • On her first single of the year, Deb Fan ruminates over unrequited love, baring it all for the one who runs her mind.
    — Cydney Lee, Billboard, 14 Mar. 2023

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