How to Use unchallenged in a Sentence

unchallenged

adjective
  • The 2022 group looked to be on that pace, spending most of the last year in the nation’s top spot unchallenged.
    Stephen Means, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Thank you to the NYPD for your quick work and sending the message that this hate will not go unchallenged.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The intruder walked to the back of the plane and left unchallenged after a few minutes.
    Robert Burns, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2021
  • The app has existed unchallenged on the App Store for more than three years.
    Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 22 May 2021
  • The silence of the sperm whales went unchallenged until 1957.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The Tar Heels have been unchallenged for the most part through their first four games and received 23 of the 31 first-place votes submitted this week.
    Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2022
  • After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia took its spot on the council — a move that went unchallenged.
    Peter Hasson, Fox News, 28 Feb. 2022
  • More than half of the 18 races for board seats went unchallenged in an election night that resulted in four new faces joining the board.
    Vanessa Swales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The Bronco is Ford's answer to the longtime unchallenged success of the Jeep Wrangler.
    Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 11 Aug. 2023
  • It’s not like her mother to leave things alone, to let such blatant lies go unchallenged, but there is more good news to reveal.
    Han Ong, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • Rushing four a lot was a mistake vs. a QB who loves unchallenged turkey shoots.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Klassen had 2 just by going to the front of the net unchallenged; his goals bookended Marcus Nguyen’s rebound goal.
    Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 26 Feb. 2022
  • In the past, full-time in-office work was the unchallenged norm, the default modus operandi for businesses worldwide.
    Gleb Tsipursky, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Before Sunday the record had stood unchallenged since 1962.
    Leigh Morgan, al, 1 Mar. 2023
  • No one is a greater believer in artistic freedom than I, but this cannot go unchallenged.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 9 Nov. 2022
  • But there’s at least one aspect of what Chan does that will likely continue to go unchallenged.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 11 Oct. 2022
  • For decades, Zanuck was unchallenged on the Century City lot in his ability to sign young actors.
    Variety Staff, Variety, 20 Dec. 2023
  • In the past, Israel had allowed such arson attacks to go unchallenged.
    Dov Lieber, WSJ, 16 June 2021
  • Chiefs score again, with Skyy Moore easily catching the ball unchallenged.
    Rob Wile, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Food and Drink The legend of how the Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contest began went largely unchallenged for decades.
    Marisa Iati, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2023
  • For one group, the crisis is about the unchallenged misuse of public and private property.
    Frank Shyong Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2021
  • In using that phrase Palmer made a choice, and in the days since that hearing, parents, teachers and students who have spent time in D.C. schools have also made one: to not let his words go unchallenged.
    Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
  • But McGuire's place in Labor Day history has not gone unchallenged.
    Craig Harris, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2022
  • One day, Baylor was the No. 2 team in the country, unbeaten and really unchallenged.
    Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2021
  • Those posts too went unchallenged by the social media companies, the review found.
    Hayden Godfrey, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Lee’s over-the-top comparison went unchallenged by the friendly Fox News anchors.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 May 2021
  • The Ducks were too good, too deep, too focused and went unchallenged in the team competition before a crowd of 5,182 on a warm, dry afternoon at Hayward Field.
    Ken Goe For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 15 May 2022
  • Lukashenko has ruled Belarus almost unchallenged for more than a quarter of a century.
    James Rodgers, Forbes, 24 May 2021
  • Russell, on the other hand, lets everyone tell their version of the story, unchallenged.
    Noel Murray, Chron, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Roin received the endorsement of the Glencoe Caucus, leading to an unchallenged run in April’s election.
    Daniel I. Dorfman, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2021

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