How to Use unchecked in a Sentence

unchecked

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• Abuses of power by the Israelis that go unchecked by the rest of the world.
  — ABC News, 8 Dec. 2023
• Feelings that left unchecked, could lead me back to a drink.
  — Laura Cathcart Robbins, Good Housekeeping, 17 Feb. 2023
• If left unchecked, the stems can girdle a small tree or shrub.
  — Janet Carson, Arkansas Online, 28 Aug. 2022
• Share Tweet Pin Email When left unchecked, kids' toys tend to turn up all over the house.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Mar. 2023
• The vines will climb trees and, if left unchecked, will kill the tree, thus harming our forests.
  — oregonlive, 30 Jan. 2022
• But the sun is setting on the age of unchecked male mediocrity, and thank goodness.
  — Ross McCammon, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2023
• That’s an unchecked box on coach Jim Harbaugh’s to-do list.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
• If left unchecked, this sticky residue can lead to black fungus and mildew.
  — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
• Left unchecked for the first time in years, my hormones were now free to run rampant.
  — Sarah Levy, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2022
• Green groups warn climate change will go largely unchecked in the state.
  — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 June 2022
• If left unchecked, the metaverse may only make things worse.
  — Darren Shou, Wired, 2 Sep. 2021
• This will help keep it free from residue buildup, which can cause clogs in pipes and filters if left unchecked.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2023
• Crews will search from floor-to-floor and room-to-room, leaving no door unopened and no space unchecked.
  — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2022
• He is consumed with grievance, and the man is out for unchecked power.
  — ABC News, 3 Nov. 2024
• Left unchecked, America could see a new form of traffic in the skies: drone swarms.
  — Tara Sonenshine, Baltimore Sun, 16 Dec. 2024
• That fire grew unchecked for days after the area was hit with extreme heat and then lightning sparked the blaze.
  — oregonlive, 24 Oct. 2021
• But with time and the Zoom boom of the pandemic, the rooms have restarted and largely appear to go unchecked.
  — NBC news, 11 Mar. 2022
• Carney isn’t afraid of leaving some items unchecked on her own list.
  — Sydney Page, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Jan. 2023
• Many of the attacks happened in the nearby city of Gilbert and ran unchecked by police for more than a year, the report said.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2024
• Left unchecked, the rapid filling of the landfill will be expensive.
  — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 8 Apr. 2024
• But in an amendment to that report filed on Tuesday, that box was left unchecked.
  — Soo Rin Kim, ABC News, 25 Jan. 2023
• At the same time, graft among the country’s elites appeared to continue unchecked.
  — Michelle Gavin, Foreign Affairs, 23 July 2024
• For far too many Georgians, the safety of their families and homes is put at risk by the unchecked crimes of street gangs.
  — Georgia News, ajc, 25 Jan. 2023
• Not one position was missed, not one box went unchecked.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Mar. 2022
• Once entrenched, the DEI offices began to grow unchecked.
  — Lawrence Krauss, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2021
• Advertisement Many have left such bills unchecked through the pause.
  — Valeria Olivares, Dallas News, 30 June 2023
• Poor oversight has, in some instances, allowed for the misuse of leave to go unchecked, the people said.
  — William K. Rashbaum, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2023
• But the disease is life-threatening when left unchecked.
  — Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 7 May 2024
• Sanderson said there were a lot of claims going unchecked online because Meta has not had enough fact-checkers to check every post.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2025
• Perhaps disruption, then, is the real point, as DOGE measures drag out in courts, competent public servants exit and presidential powers further rise unchecked.
  — Thomas J. Greitens, Scientific American, 7 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 27 Jan 2025