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
• 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
• But the sun is setting on the age of unchecked male mediocrity, and thank goodness.
  — Ross McCammon, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2023
• 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
• 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
• But in an amendment to that report filed on Tuesday, that box was left unchecked.
  — Soo Rin Kim, ABC News, 25 Jan. 2023
• 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
• 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
• The attacks went unchecked by authorities for more than a year.
  — Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2024
• If left unchecked, roughly 29 million tonnes of that plastic will flow into the ocean as waste.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2022
• If left unchecked, this pattern can persist for a lifetime.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2023
• The head of the administrators union, Nery Paiz, spoke of too many unchecked assaults against staff and students.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023
• Ecosystems throughout the world are reeling from the effects of unchecked habitat loss and climate change.
  — Sutirtha Lahiri, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2023
• If left unchecked, wines grown in high heat can end up tasting overcooked, more like cloying jam than like fresh fruit.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2023
• Ullmark’s shutout bid was snapped 7:24 into the third period when Brock Boeser, left unchecked at the top of the crease, knocked home Conor Garland’s feed from the rear wall.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
• For all this posturing, Hawley would leave unchecked the flood of dark money.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2023
• Melissa Fumero knows the dire health consequences that can arise when stress and anxiety go unchecked.
  — Bruna Nessif, Variety, 15 Aug. 2023
• For an island as small as Formentera, this could be disastrous if gone unchecked.
  — Michaela Trimble, Travel + Leisure, 5 Jan. 2024
• As violence goes unchecked in Port-au-Prince, displacement within the country is on the rise.
  — Lesly Succés, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2023
• Those boxes might get checked, but there are other boxes that go unchecked or ignored.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Dec. 2022
• This lack of assistance and unchecked ageism hits women in the U.S. especially hard.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 20 July 2023
• That movement pushed back, in part, against the unchecked use of A.I., which, the strikers argued, threatens to dehumanize the creative work force.
  — Beatrice Loayza, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
• Chinese officials have good reason to fear the unchecked spread of Covid, which could overwhelm the fragile health care system.
  — Hannah Lee, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2022
• Early on, Party officials in Wuhan covered up reports of the virus, which spread unchecked in the city, killing thousands.
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• Some of the contestants also display unchecked sexism, Joo said.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2023
• King and Lerman, who are both Jewish, noted the show — which launches March 28 — explores what happens when hate goes unchecked.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2024
• Others see it as a way to weaken the Supreme Court and attorney general – and hand the government unchecked power.
  — Danna Harman, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024