How to Use unprepared in a Sentence

unprepared

adjective

• Fans flocked to the chain restaurant to try the hack but the stores were unprepared for the orders and could not fulfill all the requests.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2023
• The three men were unprepared to bring Johnson’s body down.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• The result will be a track meet that the kids from Houston are wholly unprepared for.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 30 Oct. 2022
• This may be true, but the day after has a habit of sneaking up while the parties are unprepared.
  — Dahlia Scheindlin, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2023
• The current system is old and unprepared for the future.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2023
• Because people were unprepared for the rainstorm, some tourists were trapped in the city.
  — Larissa Gao, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2023
• The school and the school district were woefully unprepared, the report found.
  — Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 18 Jan. 2024
• Each time, the platform was unprepared to respond to what its users were doing.
  — Shane Harris, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
• People waited for hours in queues to see the canyon and many were unprepared for the hike, resulting in injuries.
  — CBS News, 8 Feb. 2023
• Most people were unprepared when the 2004 tsunami hit South Asia.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2023
• Maybe that’s why so many people were caught unprepared.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2022
• The quake sent tremors across the two countries while residents were likely asleep and unprepared for the impact.
  — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 6 Feb. 2023
• And the show was mainly filmed in the summer, so tourists can be unprepared for the state’s freezing-cold temperatures in the winter.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 5 Oct. 2023
• So how could Welker be so unprepared to address them head-on?
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• The project could meet a growing demand for aircraft that can land on unprepared surfaces.
  — Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2023
• The Heat won’t catch the Nuggets sleeping or staggering into the series unprepared.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
• Road conditions can be more dangerous in the snow, and unprepared drivers run the risk of getting tripped up by icy streets and chilly air.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2023
• Few places in the world were as unprepared for a natural disaster.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
• That was how unprepared all of us, including Netflix, were for the franchise that this would become.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2023
• Let down by the system that exploits unprepared college kids, and a victim of the cocaine epidemic of that era.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Nov. 2022
• Overall, local authorities were unprepared for the crisis and swamped by the demands of the day.
  — Mark Berman, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024
• Lessing’s women have dreams of thatched homesteads and are unprepared for the reality of a mud hut.
  — Darryl Pinckney, The New York Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2023
• But the current design of drills can be traumatic and leave students feeling unprepared, the group said.
  — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 24 Jan. 2023
• Then, in 1990, Martinet showed up late and unprepared to an audition.
  — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
• Zink said a big concern for her is the possibility of a polio outbreak, which the state is unprepared for.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2022
• Even my under-slept, unprepared first-year law students can do better than that.
  — Edward J. McCaffery, CNN, 22 Dec. 2022
• New York City was wholly unprepared for wildfire smoke that blanketed the region for days in June.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2023
• The author rises and steps back to evade him, but his black suit and polished shoes are unprepared for the youth in trainers, head wrapped like a ninja, a cyclone of anonymous fury.
  — Lydia Strohl, CNN, 13 Aug. 2022
• His answers were very ‘corp speech’ but also unprepared.
  — Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 18 Dec. 2023
• The West has cultivated illusions that have allowed these threats to rise and have left it unprepared.
  — Jakub Grygiel, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024