How to Use unasked in a Sentence

unasked

adjective

• He felt that there were many unasked questions after his demonstration.
• But where and when and by whom were questions that were left unasked and unanswered.
  — Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2022
• Then strangely all the other guys showed up with beards, too, unasked for.
  — Margy Rochlin, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2017
• The wrong color or, even worse, an unasked-for hug can throw him wildly off-course.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 4 Aug. 2017
• Merril Hoge, survivor of cancer of the lymph nodes, flew to Houston to be with Mortensen—unasked.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 24 Oct. 2017
• Instead, the big questions went unasked and unanswered.
  — Shira Ovide, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2020
• In that moment my brain quickly scrambles to come up with a retort to the unasked question.
  — Jeremy Harriot, The Root, 1 Sep. 2017
• The unasked question is how much value lies in crewed exploration of the moon beyond PR.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2021
• The urgent, unasked questions are about climate change.
  — Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2020
• For each of these missing victims, the unasked question is the same: How much of a role did lead poisoning play in their fates?
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 21 May 2017
• Here’s some unasked-for advice from your local columnist: Slow down.
  — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• And Toni Cade Bambara, or someone else, might show up at her house with groceries, unasked, and cook dinner.
  — Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2020
• Their first claim to fame came in 1974 when the group issued an unasked-for report on unruly behavior in local schools.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Sep. 2022
• It’s too hard to face the stares, the questions asked or unasked by old friends in southeast Michigan’s large Muslim community.
  — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2017
• For his part, Duchovny’s Arnold launches into an unasked-for rendition of a John Legend song, his way of relating to his son’s girlfriend.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2023
• His reverence for text induced Tennessee Williams, among others, to send him their plays unasked.
  — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
• Visitors can't even approach the truck without crossing the base perimeter, so your questions will remain unasked.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2018
• These basic questions have too frequently gone unasked.
  — Eric Reinhart, STAT, 5 Oct. 2021
• Left unasked and unanswered is another fundamental query: Who should get to answer this question, and on what basis?
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2020
• Winfrey’s interview was far from tough journalism — some key questions went unasked.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2021
• The media in New England has been beaten down for so long, blown up by a single sneer from Belichick, that news conferences often come and go with important questions unasked.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 9 Jan. 2018
• Employees had created up to 3.5 million unasked-for accounts in consumers’ names to hit aggressive sales goals.
  — Thomas Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2017
• The question went unanswered, or more precisely, unasked, during the recent homestand.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 24 Aug. 2017
• The fatal flaw lurking in all these inspiring entrepreneurial stories is the unasked question: What happens to the person who puts all of his chips behind an idea worse than Mr. Dean’s?
  — Gregory Crouch, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2017
• Troy is a darkly comedic tale about the unexpected consequences of unasked-for intimacy.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 19 Apr. 2022
• Those experiences include everything from weird looks and double takes on the trail to unasked-for advice and contempt from shop attendants and even other hikers.
  — Outside Online, 23 Aug. 2022
• All but unasked was the obvious question: Was Covid really so different and more containable than the flu, or was China simply trying to do something few others in their right mind would try?
  — WSJ, 29 Nov. 2022
• People are reluctant to offer unasked help because people can get offended.
  — Angela Chen, The Verge, 22 June 2018
• The new Star Wars films feel desperate to explain away those mysteries, providing answers to unasked questions and connecting characters who don’t need to be connected.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2019
• The question that remains unasked is how toys can invite children into the political discussion instead of merely targeting them.
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 6 Aug 2024