How to Use unrepentant in a Sentence

unrepentant

adjective
  • In the video, she is seen holding the shoes while talking to a young man with a bike, who appears unrepentant.
    Jessica Roy, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • By his own account, Steve Jones was an unrepentant thief in his youth.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2022
  • Despite their decades in South Korea, all of the men who spoke to the AP were unrepentant communists.
    Hyung-Jin Kim, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2018
  • Best for unrepentant heel strikers who want to jog, not slog.
    Justin Nyberg, Outside Online, 21 Mar. 2018
  • In an interview with The Times in 2004, Mr. Humphries was unrepentant.
    Margalit Fox, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Then there’s the unrepentant super-wipers, a la miniature me.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2020
  • Iris took a seat on one of the wooden benches provided for the errant and unrepentant.
    Jocelyn McClurg, USA TODAY, 4 May 2017
  • Those with vast wealth and unrepentant guile are simply better at gaming the rules.
    Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 11 July 2022
  • If Push was the unrepentant flexer of rewind-worthy drug boasts, Malice was the conscience.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Welles plays Falstaff as an unrepentant rogue, but also as a good man in the ways that truly matter.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 May 2024
  • Some of it was the sheer allure of mischief-making, the unrepentant reprobate being more compelling than the nice guy.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Laura Marsh: Dahl himself had a lot of fun with Mr. Fox, the unrespectable and unrepentant thief.
    The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The tweets were instantly condemned as racist, but the President, unrepentant, seemed to want to keep the fight going.
    Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 18 July 2019
  • Six years ago, Rich Benoit was an unrepentant petrol head who had just taken delivery of his dream ride.
    Andrew Lawrence, Car and Driver, 23 Aug. 2020
  • My own cubby shelves were an unrepentant mess, prone to rejecting the tank tops and shorts that my mother had written my name in with Sharpie.
    Jamie Lauren Keiles, Vox, 5 Dec. 2018
  • These coyotes are roving the streets in packs, like unrepentant hoodlums looking for a mark.
    Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Such is the unrepentant militancy of the right’s voter fraud witch hunt.
    Libby Watson, The New Republic, 4 Aug. 2020
  • This man was like all the others before him: unrepentant, cold, heartless.
    Jason Douglas Louie, The Root, 15 Apr. 2018
  • For her part, Truss struck a largely unrepentant tone in her farewell address Tuesday.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2022
  • And even now, the authors of our torment remain unrepentant.
    The Editors, National Review, 20 Mar. 2024
  • All riotous color and ebullient brushwork, the piece is the artist at his most robust, an unrepentant claiming of space.
    BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The infirm 66-year-old Hale died, unrepentant, in jail before serving out a 14-year sentence.
    Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The problem is that Democrats and Rand Paul of Kentucky are painting her as an unrepentant torturer.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 May 2018
  • Trash cans made the story easy to understand, and defiant players and an unrepentant owner made the team easy to hate.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021
  • And there were critics of Egregious Elon, the unrepentant troll who spent a substantial amount of his time goading online hordes.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Biden has been unrepentant about his decision to leave Afghanistan.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2022
  • But the unrepentant prime minister told a febrile Parliament that the court had been wrong to intervene.
    The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The judge said Arps had strong and unrepentant views about the Muslim community and had, in effect, committed a hate crime.
    NBC News, 18 June 2019
  • Last week a judge threw not just the book but multiple volumes at the unrepentant former county clerk, rejecting pleas for leniency and sentencing Peters to a whopping nine years in prison.
    Mark Z. Barabak, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024
  • An unrepentant maximalist whose genre movies are defined by the mad gluttony of someone born to leave it all on screen, Indonesian filmmaker Timo Tjahjanto is nothing if not easy to root for.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Sep. 2024

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