How to Use unforced in a Sentence

unforced

adjective
  • But unforced errors would come back to haunt her.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Even so, the bank has made a few unforced errors along the way.
    John Detrixhe, Quartz, 31 May 2019
  • Like, less unforced errors and try to make my serve more of a weapon.
    Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2026
  • From open decks and tender boats, the viewing is close and unforced.
    Condé Nast Traveler, 25 June 2026
  • The game would not have been that close if not for the laughable unforced errors.
    Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2022
  • What the Ducks cannot afford at this point are unforced errors.
    oregonlive, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Still, the unforced error brought a lot of laughs on social media.
    Dustin Nelson, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The Knicks coughed up the ball 13 times, sometimes unforced.
    Fred Katz, New York Times, 10 June 2026
  • Their unforced errors, and the turnovers that resulted from them, had to stop.
    Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2020
  • But the Braves have made a lot of unforced errors this year that have made matters worse.
    Tony Blengino, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • And while brands are not perfect, these unforced errors are all avoidable.
    Sonia Thompson, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The unforced errors saw two more touchdowns called back for penalties (four in the past two weeks).
    Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 16 Sep. 2023
  • In game two, the teenagers settled down a bit, cut down on their unforced errors and got ahead early.
    Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
  • Bad offense, unforced turnovers, the ball sticking, trying to play one-on-one.
    Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Throughout the match, the crowd buoyed Williams along, through a shaky start and unforced errors.
    Diane Herbst, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2022
  • That unforced error can be corrected, and should be.
    Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The way Margot plays that moment is so gentle and so unforced.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2023
  • For Keys, the loss could be explained by a rare plethora of unforced errors.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • By the third set, Williams was piling up unforced errors and running out of gas.
    Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2022
  • To get the job done against Louisville, IU must rid its unforced errors.
    Zion Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Nadal hit 13 winners in the second set and made just one unforced error.
    Tom Perrotta, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2017
  • If this was an unforced error, it should have been caught well before the department put out the video.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2021
  • But five unforced errors in the set’s final 10 plays proved costly for the hosts.
    Tim Meehan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2025
  • Djokovic had just nine unforced errors in the match, compared to 28 by Nadal.
    Tom Perrotta, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2019
  • Hawai’i scored in bunches, while unforced errors hurt Long Beach.
    Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 10 May 2026
  • The process has a natural, unforced ease and a quiet sense of the miraculous.
    Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 4 Nov. 2017
  • Wimberly, Yachty rolls in like a Black cowboy in a way that feels unforced.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Alcaraz only made nine unforced errors in his first-round win over Opelka.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The match was a shaky one for Anisimova, who made 28 unforced errors.
    Grace Jordan-Weinstein, People.com, 12 July 2025
  • The Swiss star made 31 unforced errors; Hurkacz made just 12.
    John Sinnott, CNN, 7 July 2021

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