How to Use uncelebrated in a Sentence

uncelebrated

adjective
  • Sick and tired of working in kitchens, unseen and uncelebrated, stalling out while the people around him came up.
    Tejal Rao, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Grand champion: Almost nobody bothers with the uncelebrated country-style pork rib, a slab cut from the rib plate with a ridge of bone right down the middle.
    Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Don’t let all that Prime Day deal scoring go uncelebrated.
    Janelle Randazza, USA TODAY, 22 June 2021
  • Christmas and birthdays passed uncelebrated, and Mr. Descalzi said he often wasn’t allowed to play.
    Eric Sylvers, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2020
  • First, Grahm intends to plant and test a series of uncelebrated grapes that have languished in the shadows of European viticulture.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
  • Sometimes Mr. Lindsay catered to hometown tastes, as in the fine blood sausage mini-sandwich, modeled on the ubiquitous if mostly uncelebrated Australian snack of a sausage link on a slice of white bread.
    Pete Wells, New York Times, 13 June 2017
  • Holidays missed, birthdays uncelebrated, grandchildren never kissed — a lifetime of memories robbed from a man whose fate hung on the words of a 9-year-old boy’s false court testimony.
    Lauren Hernández, SFChronicle.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Largely uncelebrated in its native land, Cinco de Mayo is mostly a rickety pretext for tequila-fueled parties north of the border.
    Jeremy Bagott, WSJ, 2 May 2019
  • Next to a busy road in an uncelebrated part of northern Anatolia, Aykut Erdogdu, a Turkish lawmaker, nursed his bandaged, blistered foot.
    Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 2 July 2017
  • The priests and other ministers who kept serving are the uncelebrated heroes — essential workers — of the coronavirus shutdowns.
    Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 10 May 2021
  • These story shards lay for a century in the Twain archives, unnoticed and uncelebrated, until their rediscovery in 2011.
    Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Her process is to immerse herself in communities and create large-scale portraits of ordinary, uncelebrated people and install them as huge banners on the sides of buildings in downtown areas.
    Washington Post, 1 May 2021
  • Patented 100 years ago, Hoge’s invention was the forerunner of a ubiquitous and uncelebrated device that has shaped American cities and daily life ever since-—the stoplight.
    Megan Kate Nelson, Smithsonian, 18 Apr. 2018
  • What inspires Acevedo more than anything else are uncelebrated heroes.
    Monique-Marie Cummings, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2020
  • Then join the millions taking advantage of a somewhat uncelebrated loyalty plan called Audience Rewards, a sort of frequent flyer program for theater fans.
    Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2019
  • His book is an attempt to illuminate the uncelebrated dividends—both individual and communal—of pouring yourself into a cause, place, craft, or group, whether that means looking out for local cats, or something else.
    Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 1 June 2021
  • OktoberWest, the Sequel Somewhere in this galaxy, Oktoberfest is unknown and uncelebrated.
    Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2019

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