unfulfilled

Example Sentences

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Unfulfilled hope for justice can leave wounds that rarely heal, causing persistent psychological and physical symptoms or illness.

From Slate • Jun. 4, 2023

Unfulfilled, he started looking for not-for-profit organizations to connect with and stumbled into a board position at Boys to Men.

From The Guardian • Mar. 12, 2018

Kate Winslet wasted in a role you expect to see listed in the credits as “Emotionally Unfulfilled Career Woman.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2016

Unfulfilled expectation plays out against an evolving post-imperial, post-industrial national identity, said David Goldblatt, author of “The Ball Is Round.”

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2010

Unfulfilled desires and ambitions unrealised had combined with distaste for the daily drudgery that had fallen to my lot to embitter my poverty and cause me to look with gloomy distrust upon the unpromising future.

From The Red Thumb Mark by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)