How to Use unrequited in a Sentence

unrequited

adjective

• In the film, set in the port town of Nantes, most loves sadly go unrequited.
  — Carmel Dagan, Variety, 18 June 2024
• The Cougars’ overtures to the Big 12 have gone unrequited for some time.
  — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 22 July 2021
• This film is for all the pre-teens and young adults who go through unrequited love.
  — Melanie Curry, ELLE, 7 May 2022
• If the sailors didn’t respond, the nymphs would dash themselves on the rocks for unrequited love.
  — Nina Burleigh, New York Times, 21 May 2024
• For the 51-year-old Jones, this is almost a story of unrequited love, a date -- at last -- with the fighter that got away.
  — Don Riddell, CNN, 27 Nov. 2020
• And for Cub fans, 108 years of patience and unrequited love down to one moment.
  — Time Staff, Time, 22 May 2017
• Only two things stand in their way: The team's Judas, and the Eternal with an unrequited crush on him.
  — Jeva Lange, The Week, 6 Nov. 2021
• His book is an unrequited love story, told in fragments, through the lens of death.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2021
• Colbert went on for a while about Trump's unrequited love for the Emmys.
  — Danielle McNally, Marie Claire, 17 Sep. 2017
• Here are just a few: Is unrequited love worth dying for?
  — Benjamin Oreskes, latimes.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• And unlike love, there is no such thing as unrequited jeong.
  — Charlotte Cho, Marie Claire, 29 June 2021
• There's first love, unrequited love, crazy love and that very special, yet novel, rom-com kind of love.
  — Usa Today Staff, USA TODAY, 7 May 2022
• Attendees can drop their name into a hat to tell a 5-minute story of love gone bad, from the anguish of unrequited love to the sting of a breakup.
  — al, 7 Feb. 2020
• A chorus that sings of unrequited love, and ends up lingering in your head for days.
  — Lisa Brown, Billboard, 26 June 2017
• On paper, Agatha Christie staged some of the world’s grimmest homicides, springing from greed, rage and unrequited love.
  — Anna Russell, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2017
• Maysa has grown resigned, but Farouk remains in a poignant unrequited love affair with the dream.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2022
• Gone were the shiny, sparkly sequined gowns, the perfectly-coiffed hair and the syrupy, refined lyrics of unrequited love.
  — Karu F. Daniels, NBC News, 5 Sep. 2017
• On her first single of the year, Deb Fan ruminates over unrequited love, baring it all for the one who runs her mind.
  — Cydney Lee, Billboard, 14 Mar. 2023
• Kiyoko sings about the pain of unrequited love and how desperate the feeling of wanting someone who doesn’t want you back can be.
  — Billboard, 30 June 2021
• The ballerina’s life in the film takes a twist when an unrequited love turns fatal.
  — Jessica Gelt, latimes.com, 19 Sep. 2017
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower captures the earnestness (and angstiness) of young, unrequited love.
  — Ineye Komonibo, Marie Claire, 12 Oct. 2020
• Mayya is at her Singer sewing machine, dreaming of a love unrequited.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
• Jenna is struggling with the angst of being 13, dealing with mean girls called the Six Chicks, and unrequited crushes.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 7 Aug. 2023
• This totally debunks the myth that women are the ones who *~fall so fast~* and spend all their time quoting songs about unrequited love.
  — Mallory Schlossberg, Redbook, 20 Feb. 2017
• The truth, though, is that an unrequited crush is not always unhealthy or unfair to its object.
  — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2023
• Oldies music about unrequited love and hot-and-heavy, back-seat romance warms the cool, early-morning air.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2021
• Songwriter Eunsoo asks her best friend to stay with her for two weeks to help her write lyrics for a song about unrequited love.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2022
• Poor George takes this as an encouragement, the woes of unrequited love.
  — Kristin Vartan, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2019
• This album was written about a period of unrequited love in my life.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2024
• Last staged in Louisville in 2018, the three-hour musical is a captivating story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice, and redemption.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 2 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024