How to Use incomplete in a Sentence

incomplete

adjective
  • She handed in an incomplete assignment.
  • Tonges caught the ball but it was ruled incomplete.
    Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2025
  • No flag was thrown on the play as the pass fell incomplete.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The call was changed to an incomplete pass.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Both are ad hoc and incomplete.
    Evan Johnson, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Some of the recipes were incomplete?
    Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Reed’s next two throws were incomplete.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 20 Dec. 2025
  • But it was called incomplete after his hand hit out of bounds.
    Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Fields was incomplete on a fourth-down pass with less than two minutes to play.
    Joe Schad, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2022
  • As a result, speech may sound slurred, slow or incomplete.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 Feb. 2026
  • An incomplete pass set up 4th-and-goal from the 2.
    Cody Thorn, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The next play was an incomplete pass on third-and-17, then a punt.
    Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • But this picture of health may be incomplete.
    Matt Fuchs, Time, 4 May 2026
  • The cold didn’t stay cold, and the result felt incomplete.
    Marisa McMillan, Outside, 29 Dec. 2025
  • If it’s cracked or incomplete, your dashboards will be, too.
    David Kelley, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Much seems to remain incomplete about that scene.
    Kansas City Star, 20 June 2026
  • The next drive featured an incomplete pass and an 8-yard sack.
    Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Both outcomes are wins, but both are incomplete.
    Sam Saideman, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • There’s something right, if still incomplete, about what’s at work here.
    Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2026
  • There is this idea that a woman who is alone is somehow incomplete.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 3 July 2022
  • That story is incomplete in a way that changes how the rally should be read.
    Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • But what happens when one half of a couple comes to feel incomplete?
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Late or incomplete entries will be void.
    AJC.com, 7 May 2026
  • Late or incomplete entries will be void.
    AJC.com, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Late or incomplete entries will be void.
    AJC.com, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Late or incomplete entries will be void.
    AJC.com, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Late or incomplete entries will be void.
    AJC.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Late or incomplete entries will be void.
    AJC.com, 12 Jan. 2026
  • This was a true statement, but incomplete.
    Michael Luo, New Yorker, 14 June 2026
  • The ball has been on the ground too often with incomplete passes.
    Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025

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