How to Use unlearn in a Sentence

unlearn

verb

• It is hard to unlearn bad habits.
• And as a child of two worlds, there was so much to learn, and unlearn.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 16 Apr. 2023
• There’s a lot of technique to kind of unlearn and switch to the other side.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 13 June 2023
• And if it was taught one way, it can be unlearned and taught another way.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 19 Mar. 2018
• These were meant to be habits, not traits — something a person could unlearn.
  — Caity Weaver, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
• Be ready to learn, unlearn and move forward with the right attitude.
  — Asokan Ashok, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• The people who will flourish in this new world are those who can a) learn to learn, b) learn to unlearn, and c) learn to relearn.
  — Ravi Kumar, Quartz at Work, 20 Jan. 2020
• The only advice is to unlearn that there are poultry blends, steak blends, etc.
  — Danielle Pointdujour, Travel + Leisure, 10 July 2020
• At four months, the twins unlearned how to sleep through the night and began waking every 20 minutes.
  — Anndee Hochman, Philly.com, 4 July 2018
• It’s not a huge problem, but adapting to the control scheme can feel like trying to unlearn a habit.
  — Washington Post, 14 July 2021
• Six weeks without touch wasn’t enough to unlearn this language.
  — Ella Dawson, Longreads, 18 May 2020
• The pandemic gave people time to step back, reassess their lives, and unlearn the old ways of working.
  — Rhett Power, Forbes, 8 May 2022
• To combat this lack of dynamism, Emborg and his team opted for a system in which the AI learns and unlearns from you.
  — John Robertson, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2017
• Whereas Jack, one guesses, was able to unlearn this ability as the world changed around him.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 17 Jan. 2018
• But the anxious brain sometimes learns the wrong things and has an awfully hard time unlearning them.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Dec. 2017
• She's probably used to hunching while playing and will have to unlearn that.
  — Amy Watts, baltimoresun.com, 2 May 2018
• Wii Sports tennis fans will need to unlearn how that old game worked to not constantly fail in NSS tennis.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 3 May 2022
• Ahead, see the 15 most common contenders, and join me in my journey to actively unlearn a handful of them.
  — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 12 Sep. 2023
• Once acquired, the park said, such conditioning is not easy to unlearn.
  — Washington Post, 3 May 2022
• More than just a beauty trend, men are unlearning the stigma to invest in a long-term commitment to their self-care.
  — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 19 July 2023
• And what has been learned, Mandela suggested, can be unlearned.
  — Steve Haycox, Alaska Dispatch News, 25 Aug. 2017
• Health experts are pleading with people to learn more about the science, unlearn the myths and overcome the fears concerning the vaccine.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2021
• There are also the causes that call us to unlearn deeply ingrained habits — Black Lives Matter, the #metoo movement, undoing all of the isms.
  — Dede Henley, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2021
• Granted, many people have temporarily unlearned the connection between the urge to pay bills and the need to work.
  — Peter Georgescu, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• Give yourself permission to unlearn what doesn't serve you.
  — Jacqueline Delgadillo, refinery29.com, 6 Mar. 2022
• This change sometimes requires us to unlearn old habits, which results in not only student growth but our growth as well.
  — Michelle Aslam, Dallas News, 9 Mar. 2020
• One of the things Polyak said administrators and teachers must unlearn is something as simple as the set up of a classroom.
  — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 8 May 2017
• Stories about lack of self-worth or wanting too much are often learned in childhood and many people never unlearn them.
  — Svetlana Whitener, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
• And for veterans who have spent years trying to unlearn fear of public places, the virus has challenged a key premise of recovery: their safety.
  — NBC news, 6 Mar. 2021
• Job One for Daniel and his housemates is unlearning the lessons of incarceration.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2016

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024