How to Use unready in a Sentence

unready

adjective

• If the offense is getting worse — and Fields looks unready to play — that’s a big problem for them.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 29 Sep. 2021
• The host Fire, in their first playoff game in five years, appeared unready and overwhelmed.
  — Brian Straus, SI.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• Unwrapped and unready, the pile appeared daunting, The work still to do should have made their dreams haunting.
  — Sally Higginson, chicagotribune.com, 11 Dec. 2017
• They got trounced both times, wholly unready for the Warriors’ brand of humbling.
  — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 27 Sep. 2019
• Biggest surprise: The Saints being unready for Hundley to run the ball.
  — Josh Katzenstein, NOLA.com, 22 Oct. 2017
• In some aircraft fleets, including the B-1B bomber, there are more mission-ready planes than unready ones.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2022
• Stan may have met someone, have other commitments or felt unready to make one with you.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 21 Sep. 2022
• Stop falling for the line that we Russians are unsuited to, or unready for, freedom.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Sep. 2017
• He's seen players deemed unready one season improve enough to make a team the following year.
  — Eliza McGraw, chicagotribune.com, 19 May 2018
• The devil is the state of being unready for revelation.
  — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2021
• Even those who voted against the Democratic amendments said Alaska is unready to vote by mail.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Mar. 2020
• Still, the effort shows the administration is unready to give up on the policy.
  — Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff and Corinne Dorsey, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2023
• On the other hand, if Warren had been obtuse, ignorant, and unready, that wouldn’t have worked, either.
  — Katha Pollitt, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2020
• Just as excellence can, in certain moods, strike us as a reproach, Shirley Hazzard has a way of unnerving the unready.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2020
• Why were most countries—and especially the U.S.—so unready?
  — David Quammen, The New Yorker, 4 May 2020
• This source blames Navarro for the confusion, which meant the Capitol Hill delegation came to the meeting ready to fight and unready to compromise.
  — Nihal Krishan, Washington Examiner, 12 July 2020
• Babis said after a meeting on Thursday the president remained unready to act.
  — Washington Post, 12 July 2019
• If a tropical town like Lahaina can burn, which other cities are also at risk—and totally unready for it?
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 15 Aug. 2023
• No one wants unready tech on public roads, but for anyone who has bought into the technology’s promise to save lives, the delay is a bummer.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 11 May 2018
• And yet the show is purpose-built not to elevate or to celebrate Winbush but to somewhat ruthlessly pull apart the ways in which she might be made to look unready for the job and unsteady on her feet.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 10 July 2023
• Congress is likely unready for a debate about the limitations of the legal system.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 23 June 2021
• The unready garrison at Mariupol was encircled by Russian forces on March 2, and the siege has now continued for 11 weeks.
  — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 16 May 2022
• Mike Grier spent the first game of his freshman season at Boston University not on the ice but in the stands, unready for the lineup, minding a high school recruit checking out the program.
  — New York Times, 7 July 2022
• There are usually four batches released per year, each with a name referencing some piece of Beam history, but sometimes there will be less if the whiskey is deemed unready.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 15 July 2022
• Unfortunately, this is not a pleasant nose as it’s dominated by raw, varnish notes and feels unready.
  — Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes, 29 June 2022
• One that did not, really, was handing the series to an unready producer with a history of speaking freely and loosely in a manner lacking a certain dignity.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 20 Aug. 2021
• But with four of the USS Ford’s seven critical lower-stage weapons elevators still unready for service, naval credibility is at stake.
  — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 13 May 2021
• But her primary performance failed to generate much enthusiasm among Democrats, and her indecisiveness made her seem unready to step up in a crisis.
  — John McCormack, National Review, 17 Apr. 2020
• And government was clearly unready, scrambling to hire Cobol programmers to update 50-year-old unemployment-claims systems.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2020
• But one year after transformative protests and a widespread corporate embrace of Juneteenth, much of this country is showing itself to be unready or unwilling to have those conversations.
  — Peniel E. Joseph, CNN, 16 June 2021

Last Updated: 22 Sep 2024