How to Use unchallenged in a Sentence

unchallenged

adjective
  • The gunman took an Uber to the school and walked in the open gate, unchallenged.
    Megan O'Matz, Sun-Sentinel.com, 22 June 2018
  • The claim went unchallenged by the show's host, Charles Payne.
    Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, azcentral, 11 May 2018
  • The 2022 group looked to be on that pace, spending most of the last year in the nation’s top spot unchallenged.
    Stephen Means, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The machine has held this seat unchallenged since 1962 and Li will break that grasp.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 25 June 2024
  • Thank you to the NYPD for your quick work and sending the message that this hate will not go unchallenged.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2022
  • In many points in the city, the cartel gunmen went unchallenged.
    Ioan Grillo, Time, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The intruder walked to the back of the plane and left unchallenged after a few minutes.
    Robert Burns, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2021
  • The shooter went unchallenged in the school for 77 minutes.
    Shimon Prokupecz, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The app has existed unchallenged on the App Store for more than three years.
    Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 22 May 2021
  • The silence of the sperm whales went unchallenged until 1957.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • But in the end, this group has remained stable and unchallenged.
    Scott Patsko, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Which is not to say that the audience is left unchallenged.
    BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Byron led the final 58 laps and went unchallenged to the checkered flag.
    Kelly Crandall, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2021
  • The Tar Heels have been unchallenged for the most part through their first four games and received 23 of the 31 first-place votes submitted this week.
    Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Brown ran unchallenged, winning his second term on the board with 100 percent of the vote.
    Jeff Forward, Houston Chronicle, 19 Aug. 2020
  • After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia took its spot on the council — a move that went unchallenged.
    Peter Hasson, Fox News, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Which is great, of course: No longer may bros in backward baseball caps roam the heartland unchallenged.
    Mikael Wood, latimes.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • More than half of the 18 races for board seats went unchallenged in an election night that resulted in four new faces joining the board.
    Vanessa Swales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The police and fire contracts, long unchallenged, would bankrupt the city within a few decades.
    New York Times, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The Bronco is Ford's answer to the longtime unchallenged success of the Jeep Wrangler.
    Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Bradbury, last year's first-round pick, is unchallenged but still needs to improve.
    Mark Craig, Star Tribune, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Despite the high stakes, each side let a few errors go unchallenged when the voter’s intent was clear.
    Arit John, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2020
  • It’s not like her mother to leave things alone, to let such blatant lies go unchallenged, but there is more good news to reveal.
    Han Ong, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • Rushing four a lot was a mistake vs. a QB who loves unchallenged turkey shoots.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Klassen had 2 just by going to the front of the net unchallenged; his goals bookended Marcus Nguyen’s rebound goal.
    Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 26 Feb. 2022
  • The election itself was designed not to establish the true will of the people, but to allow Mr Lukashenko to rule unchallenged.
    The Economist, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Kevin McDermott was unchallenged as the Vikings’ long snapper over the past three seasons.
    Chris Tomasson, Twin Cities, 10 June 2019
  • In the past, full-time in-office work was the unchallenged norm, the default modus operandi for businesses worldwide.
    Gleb Tsipursky, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023
  • One-Punch Man is a manga-turned-anime about existential dread, and the stilted, life-sucking agony of being unchallenged.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The vice president has Biden’s endorsement, and is unchallenged as yet for the Democratic nomination, which will be formally decided at the Aug. 19 convention in Chicago.
    Anna Tingley, Variety, 23 July 2024

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