How to Use unanswered in a Sentence
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In turn, the offense scored 24 unanswered points to put the game away by the start of the fourth quarter.
—Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 18 Aug. 2023
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The game got off to a fiery start, with FP scoring 13 unanswered goals in the first half.
—Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 19 May 2022
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The Broncos got the upper hand with 10 unanswered points in the third quarter.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2023
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Emails to the restaurant and the Red Cross Bay Area chapter went unanswered.
—Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2022
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Reed's questions to Zachry about where the box came from went unanswered.
—Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2022
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But where and when and by whom were questions that were left unasked and unanswered.
—Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2022
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There's still a lot of unanswered questions, like who survived the crash and who didn't?
—Milan Polk, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
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There’s one unanswered question here, though: why are geosmin and 2-MIB there in the first place?
—Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 12 June 2025
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There are still a lot of unanswered questions for the new E-class wagon.
—Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 20 June 2023
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The Avalanche scored two unanswered goals in the first period, then four more in the second.
—Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Nov. 2021
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Look, read the labels, mull over the prickly unanswered questions many of the pieces leave you with.
—New York Times, 10 Feb. 2022
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The couple made all the calls, knocked on doors and didn’t let a ringing phone go unanswered for that first year.
—Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 24 Mar. 2022
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But in the back of her mind, unanswered questions lingered.
—Annabel Gutterman, TIME, 24 May 2024
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As winds picked up again this week, key questions about the fires remain unanswered: What sparked the flames in the first place?
—Sachi Mulkey, WIRED, 25 Jan. 2025
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Calls to the office of the Little Boss pet shop on Friday went unanswered.
—Marie Brockling, NBC News, 6 Jan. 2023
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After the break, Guyer scored 13 unanswered points in the third quarter.
—Myah Taylor, Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2023
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Tigres’ two unanswered goals against the Thorns in the first 28 minutes of the game sealed their fate later that night.
—Tamerra Griffin, New York Times, 21 May 2025
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Too many of these messages went unanswered, we were told.
—Matt Ehling, Twin Cities, 22 May 2025
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Iran That leaves the biggest unanswered question of them all: Iran.
—Mick Krever, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2025
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With the vast search effort now over, the focus turns to the many unanswered questions that remain.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 23 June 2023
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This episode fills in a lot of gaps, but there are still plenty of unanswered questions.
—Scott Meslow, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2021
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The question of who pays for cleanup remains unanswered.
—Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 30 Dec. 2024
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Texts would go unanswered, calls missed, and after a while, my bond with Steve felt as lost as my youth.
—Kui Mwai, Vogue, 26 Aug. 2023
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But Jones scored eight unanswered points to put Marquette ahead, 10-6.
—Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 16 Nov. 2024
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The group still has some unanswered questions to address.
—BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2021
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Instead, a 2-0 lead quickly fell apart with five unanswered goals from the Preds.
—Jonas Siegel, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
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The unanswered questions continued to gnaw at Steve in the weeks that followed.
—Allie Weintraub, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2023
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The Wild went into the third period leading 2-1, but the Ducks scored two unanswered goals and won 3-2.
—John Shipley, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2024
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Given the reporting on the scale of youth involved in gang activities, there are unanswered questions about how children, who are the heart of the conflict in Haiti, are being treated once found with weapons.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 June 2025
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In prizing visceral impact over narrative clarity, the film sometimes leaves too many unanswered questions, but there isn’t much time to criticize while the film is racing forward.
—Stephen Farber, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2025
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