ungratified

Example Sentences

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I only saw him bend low over her hand; could not catch a word he said, and was calmly surged out into the hall with ungratified and baffled spirit.

From Kitty's Conquest by King, Charles

Doubtless the secret fire of a consuming, but as yet ungratified, literary ambition also troubled his repose.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" by Various

They had no want ungratified; to them the desert and what it contained were all-sufficing.

From A Vendetta of the Desert by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

Dock's legs, Mr. Doggett's public reproof, and the ungratified longing in his stomach for melons, were still giving the boy trouble late Saturday afternoon, after the flight of Friday evening.

From The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields by Hackley, Sarah Bell

Years fled on—years of burning disappointment and ungratified passion.

From The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) by Moodie, Susanna