How to Use unfulfilled in a Sentence

unfulfilled

adjective

• This idea struck us as too good to leave unfulfilled, and a plan was hatched.
  — New York Times, 17 July 2022
• No one needs to school Black and Gold fans in the pain of unfulfilled playoff runs.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2021
• But any promise of a wet end to a dry streak seemed unfulfilled.
  — Washington Post, 17 May 2021
• That plea seems to have gone unfulfilled with Wednesday's news that the revival is no longer in the works.
  — Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2020
• Oh, boy, the metaverse, the unfulfilled promises of the metaverse.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2022
• His goal to win a Gold Glove has remained unfulfilled since.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2021
• The movie’s potential remains unfulfilled, as if it weren’t filmed in the first place but were still a script.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2022
• That both Kennedys met tragic ends came to represent the chaos of the 1960s as well as its unfulfilled hope.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 30 Apr. 2018
• And so much of the promise of that memorable draft night has been left unfulfilled.
  — Mark Maske, courant.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• But the Ravens have been left unfulfilled, stuck with more questions than answers.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 26 Apr. 2021
• Yet for months, the most obvious union in the game remained unfulfilled.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• Sanctions could fade or the pledges of stronger defense go unfulfilled.
  — Richard Fontaine, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
• For the Red Sox, the trade deadline represented the unfulfilled pursuit of a starter who can help for years to come.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
• Her plans went unfulfilled, though, due to a lack of donations.
  — Jillian Keenan, Wired, 19 Mar. 2020
• Now all fans can do is hope that unfulfilled wish isn’t the most exciting thing that happens in 2021.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2021
• But most of the chargers in these four states predate an unfulfilled promise to roll out 500 new charger ports by the end of last year.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 20 Mar. 2023
• There was one goal that always made my list (and inevitably remained there, unfulfilled when the ball dropped yet again the next year): Run a half marathon.
  — NBC News, 5 Nov. 2017
• As members of the Black Student Union, the group felt that their pushes to make the school more inclusive went unfulfilled.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 11 Aug. 2022
• The Jags had a chance, but a lot of New England’s opponents have chances that become dreams unfulfilled.
  — Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Jan. 2018
• Every unfulfilled item could cost Gillette a bit of tip money.
  — Ellen McCarthy, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2020
• But what many saw as an unimaginable feat of endurance still carried, for him, the sting of an unfulfilled dream.
  — New York Times, 18 Jan. 2021
• At the same time, Gilbert Martineau was feeling unfulfilled.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 5 May 2021
• Nine years and two Cup runs later, the repeat has become the promise unfulfilled.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Feb. 2020
• There’s certainly a version of the series where Guillermo remains unfulfilled all the way to the end.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2023
• One of the unfulfilled demands of the 2019 protests was direct election of the city's chief executive.
  — Zen Soo and Vincent Yu, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2022
• One of the unfulfilled demands of the 2019 protests was direct election of the city’s chief executive.
  — Zen Soo and Vincent Yu, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2022
• This gives us hope, but most of these promises remain unfulfilled.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2021
• The image captures a breakup and the unfulfilled dream of a domestic space with a family.
  — Eva Recinos, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
• The emails, some of them paragraphs long, proved their son had lived anything but an isolated and unfulfilled life in his basement bedroom.
  — Jake Kring-Schreifels, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
• This might leave those who crave structure and consistent goal-achievement feeling unfulfilled.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Jan 2025