How to Use unfinished business in a Sentence

unfinished business

noun

• There’s just one last bit of unfinished business to take care of first.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2023
• Stick close to home and take care of unfinished business.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2024
• The 60-year-old Harbaugh has unfinished business in the NFL.
  — Rob Maaddi, Baltimore Sun, 10 Feb. 2024
• There was always unfinished business: the next record, the next set design, the next tour.
  — Spin Staff, Spin, 2 Oct. 2023
• Walk and watch The site had a big crew of workers during the walk-through, and there’s plenty of unfinished business still to do.
  — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2023
• In this sense, the Iraq war remains unfinished business for the United States.
  — Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs, 17 Mar. 2023
• Hudson said that while the win was great, there’s still some unfinished business left.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 1 Mar. 2024
• Like those in the crowd of tens of thousands that chose to return, there was a sense of unfinished business on this fairground.
  — Olivia Rinaldi, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2024
• But also brewing in the back of Mother’s Milk’s mind is unfinished business with the Boys.
  — Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• In a sense, the pro-Ouattara troops who swept southward this month from what had been their rebel strongholds in the north have completed the unfinished business of 2002.
  — Mike McGovern, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2011
• The stop is a bit of a victory lap, but could also be a reminder of unfinished business.
  — Chris Megerian and Seung Min Kim, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
• The lunar eclipse in Libra puts an end to unfinished business.
  — USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
• In this episode, Rebecca tries to solve some unfinished business with her mom.
  — Marianne Eloise, Vulture, 11 May 2024
• And that leaves Naeher with some unfinished business to attend to this summer.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2024
• With so much unfinished business and time running short, turning the defense bill into a grab bag can be a slippery slope.
  — Peter Sullivan, Axios, 23 Sep. 2024
• Also, as much as anything, there was a sense Kershaw returned to the Dodgers because of unfinished business.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
• A lot of what’s going on now is viewed by Writers Guild leadership as taking care of unfinished business from three years ago.
  — Vulture, 2 May 2023
• There was likely a lot of murky, unfinished business between the mercenary leader and the Kremlin.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Aug. 2023
• The moon opposing Mercury retrograde can put a lot of unfinished business on your plate.
  — USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
• While their offers or commitments show their futures are bright, there is still unfinished business before their time in the program is up.
  — Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas News, 7 Aug. 2023
• People are focusing on some of the unfinished business.
  — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 10 Nov. 2023
• By 2018, a nagging sense of unfinished business prompted her to start competing again.
  — Talia Barrington, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2024
• On unfinished business: There’s been unfinished business for a while, man.
  — Michael Nowels, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2024
• So what does the unfinished business look like for the seemingly untouchable Belgian?
  — Aleks Klosok, CNN, 12 Aug. 2024
• It was put on the agenda as unfinished business for next week’s meeting where aldermen, then meeting as the regular City Council, will have to vote again to enact the change.
  — Steve Lord, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2024
• And depending on how the Mercury fare in this 2024 playoff run, there could be some unfinished business for a team that had title aspirations.
  — Shane Young, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
• Runyon: As a mentor once told me, there will always be unfinished business.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2023
• Still, like Danny and Roberta’s bond, the production is unfinished business.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• Paul McCartney may be the only person on Earth who believes the Beatles have any unfinished business in 2023.
  — Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• Release your anxiety by taking care of unfinished business.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 28 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024