How to Use unfinished in a Sentence

unfinished

adjective

• Toriyama worked for 45 years and still had unfinished work at the time of his death.
  — Arata Yamamoto, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2024
• The large basement, which can be reached from the home or garage, is unfinished.
  — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 6 Nov. 2022
• Yet the team still has a bit of unfinished business to take care of with two games left.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2022
• Some made it, but some didn’t and had to leave the unfinished work crying.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 June 2024
• But each has some unfinished business to tidy up first, which is the focus of most of the movie.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2022
• The toilet is on an outside wall on the main floor, above the unfinished part of my basement.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
• In fact, they could be sold at any time while the game remained unfinished.
  — Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2023
• This movie seems to me, on some level, to be about the unfinished work of the civil-rights movement.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2023
• The roof is chevron-shaped, similar to the entrance below, and the walls are unfinished.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
• Beers convinced Smith to pay him upfront, then left most of the work unfinished.
  — Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica, 25 Feb. 2023
• As the deadline loomed, the lyrics remained unfinished.
  — David Peisner, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• One of the primary goals of this trip to Niger is to gather what had been left unfinished.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2022
• Sometimes the best way to manifest the nature of stone is to leave it unfinished.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
• The building lacked walls on two sides, but a single light bulb hung from the unfinished ceiling.
  — WSJ, 23 Nov. 2023
• The purpose of the software is unclear and as of 2020 appeared unfinished.
  — Ryan W. Briggs, Max Marin and William Bender, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2023
• Birch has said the script was unfinished when shooting started, which may explain some of the abrupt shifts in tone and plot.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 11 June 2022
• Chimino already has one of the themes for the new regime — unfinished business.
  — Tony Baranek, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2022
• Keep in mind that this wax needs to sit on the wood floor for at least 20 minutes (sometimes more, if your floor is unfinished).
  — Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Nov. 2023
• In one classroom there is an unfinished chess game one of the slain students had been playing.
  — CBS News, 4 Aug. 2023
• Still, civil rights leaders said the fight for equal rights is unfinished.
  — Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2023
• The still house was unfinished, lacking windows and doors.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2023
• Braves head coach James Williams said his team had unfinished business from last year.
  — Lynn Ramsey, Orlando Sentinel, 8 May 2022
• There were a bunch, but the sequence that was probably the most unfinished was the Nurburgring crash.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Aug. 2023
• In one classroom, there is an unfinished chess game one of the slain students had been playing, the pieces unmoved.
  — Terry Spencer and Freida Frisaro, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
• Built in 1920, the home also includes an unfinished basement and a new deck.
  — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 12 July 2024
• Smoke alarms aren't required in unfinished attics, a storage area or in the kitchen.
  — Gina Lee Castro, Journal Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2024
• The unfinished book became a running joke in the Sherwin household.
  — Andy Kifer, New York Times, 11 July 2023
• At the time of the interview, Taylor-Joy hadn’t yet seen anything beyond an unfinished cut of the film.
  — Zoe G Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
• For the first time in 20 years, the once lively halls are silent at the school in Little Village, with unfinished murals standing as poignant reminders of the after-school program’s closure.
  — Ikram Mohamed, Chicago Tribune, 18 Nov. 2024
• This week, his scones were also unfinished, and his Colours of Murano hanging cake was far smaller and rougher around the edges than either Georgie’s or Christiaan’s.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 29 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024