unhonored

Example Sentences

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Becoming “unwept, unhonored and unsung” really is the best way to deal with people who only care about themselves.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2023

No. 42 has been retired from baseball, but No. 14 goes unhonored.

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2019

The Middle East, of course, is strewn with the ruins of old hopes for peace—colonial commissions, the corpses of assassinated mediators, United Nations resolutions signed but unhonored.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jackie pursues his insipid goal of a ride in the district garbage truck with good old crotchety Mr. Jones while the deathless ride of Paul Revere goes unwept, unhonored and unsung.

From Time Magazine Archive

The bond committee, the friends and relatives, the simple unhonored spectators didn’t think of leaving the field.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck