How to Use unspent in a Sentence

unspent

adjective
  • Most states still have unspent funds that will last several months.
    — Robert Pear, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2017
  • If unspent, it will be used as one-time funding for the next fiscal year.
    — oregonlive, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Despite the fanfare most of the funds went unspent.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Eric had to absorb a lot of her craziness and unspent love.
    — Benjamin Markovits, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Baró did not respond when asked what happened to the rest of the unspent money.
    — Daniel Rivero, Miami Herald, 30 May 2026
  • But while many have been helped, millions of dollars in aid remain unspent.
    — Kate Santich, orlandosentinel.com, 6 July 2021
  • Others are burned out from too many long shifts, late nights and unspent vacation days.
    — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Any unspent amount carries over to the next season on top of the minimum.
    — New York Times, 24 July 2022
  • Most of the unspent money was set aside or planned for a specific program or project.
    — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Kidd said these transfers are often done as a means to keep the unspent travel money.
    — Anna Beahm, al.com, 21 June 2019
  • The aide said about $700 billion remains in unspent virus aid.
    — Lisa Mascaro and Jonathan Lemire, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2021
  • All the unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hallow of your chest.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The same is true of the clawback of $30 billion in unspent Covid funds.
    — The Editors, National Review, 30 May 2023
  • All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat and in that hollow part of your chest.
    — Giovana Gelhoren, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Most of the state’s unspent child care funds last year — more than $204 million — came from state preschool alone.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2023
  • All of that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest.
    — Samantha Brodsky, Good Housekeeping, 14 June 2017
  • The unspent dollars make up a small fraction of the total amount that was distributed to schools.
    — Hurubie Meko, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The report said there is as much as $21 billion of unspent money tied up in unused and lost gift cards.
    — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 23 Feb. 2023
  • In the past, the fund has been well-stocked, regularly carrying over unspent money from year to year.
    — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 14 June 2019
  • About $3 million set aside in the city's budget at the beginning of this year for drainage repairs has still gone unspent.
    — Beau Evans, NOLA.com, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Trump promised during the campaign to rescind all unspent funds from the IRA.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Advocates have called on the state in recent months to use unspent welfare money to fund the voucher program.
    — Sophia Paffenroth Mississippi Today, Arkansas Online, 23 Nov. 2025
  • The state has about $2 billion in rainy-day funds, and this year’s state budget left $560 million unspent.
    — Emery P. Dalesio, The Seattle Times, 15 Oct. 2018
  • But the legislators designed the program to receive a portion of the unspent funds left over at the end of each fiscal year.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The foundation used the leftover unspent funds to purchase food from Hungry Jack and then gave out that food.
    — Elliott Lapin, Houston Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2020
  • After that, states will be forced to tap unspent WIC money to keep the program going.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The next day, the young girls were found dead near the edge of a creek, with their throats slit and an unspent 40 caliber bullet lying between them.
    — Jordana Comiter, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • What about Softbank’s planned $200-billion vision fund, which is twice as large as the first, yet-unspent one?
    — Polina Marinova, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The corkscrew design was a copy of gun worms used in the 1600s to remove unspent charges jammed in a musket’s barrel.
    — Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • The city is allowed to re-budget unspent funding from previous years for eligible projects.
    — Luke Harold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2026

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