How to Use unfilled in a Sentence

unfilled

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• By then, the post had gone unfilled for more than a year.
  — Michael Crowley, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2019
• Instead, leave at least a half inch at the top unfilled.
  — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Sep. 2022
• Hancock is one of the great unfilled-promise movies of the last decade or so.
  — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2019
• As of last week, the new memo says, there were about 1,100 unfilled requests for footage.
  — Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 3 July 2020
• Five of the seven seats remain unfilled and will go to runoffs.
  — Clancy Dubos, NOLA.com, 9 Nov. 2020
• In the days leading up to the pilot’s production, the role was still unfilled.
  — Hazlitt, 4 Jan. 2023
• The group has struggled to get a quorum because of six unfilled seats.
  — oregonlive, 29 Apr. 2022
• But there’s so much blank space that’s unfilled and so many things left unsaid.
  — August Brown, latimes.com, 7 June 2019
• The number of unfilled openings fell sharply in June and July.
  — Christopher Rugaber The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2023
• If there isn’t a fifth candidate, the spot goes unfilled.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Oct. 2020
• That means the league has 10 Black coaches right now out of 27; three jobs remain unfilled.
  — Tim Reynolds, ajc, 7 July 2021
• Pen dealer Hirsch Davis of Rockville, Md., also had a lot of unfilled pens.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• Last year, the fill rates for substitute slots in the state hovered around 87%, meaning they were unfilled 13% of the time.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Nov. 2021
• And when crime spikes or potholes go unfilled, Chicagoans tend to blame their mayor.
  — Mitch Smith, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• One at a time, place edges of the 6 unfilled shells on plate to slightly melt the rim (reheating plate if needed).
  — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 30 July 2022
• Some tangyuan are served as smaller, unfilled rice balls in a soup made from cane sugar.
  — CNN, 1 Dec. 2021
• More than 40% of the jobs at the health department are currently unfilled.
  — Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 16 Dec. 2023
• Toward the end, Liechty turned to Wikipedia for unfilled dates to find events that happened that someone, at some time sang about.
  — Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 22 Jan. 2021
• Now Barry has more than a dozen books to her name, all done in her inimitable raw, crazed, leave-no-space-unfilled style.
  — Sarah Boxer, The New York Review of Books, 8 Sep. 2020
• Even as the city lacks universal access, dozens of new slots go unfilled.
  — Naomi Martin, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Feb. 2021
• Here’s a look inside: An unfilled indoor pool One of the most unusual parts of the house is the indoor pool, tucked under the front porch.
  — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 10 Feb. 2024
• As of the end of last week, only eight teacher positions were still unfilled.
  — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 5 Sep. 2022
• Now, over three years since the pandemic hit the US, some restaurant jobs remain unfilled.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 13 Aug. 2023
• There are more than 11 million unfilled jobs across a range of industries.
  — Mark C. Perna, Forbes, 5 July 2022
• An internal report that month showed one in four jobs at the prison were unfilled, the worst shortage among the state's prisons.
  — Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 June 2020
• But up to 2 million of those jobs will go unfilled due to a lack of skilled workers — a problem of national scale.
  — Dallas News, 28 Dec. 2022
• That survey showed 1,500 unfilled teaching positions at the start of the current school year.
  — Trisha Powell Crain | [e-mail], al, 20 Jan. 2023
• Even as cargo piles up on the docks, almost a third of the port’s night-shift appointments for truckers go unfilled.
  — David J. Lynch, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2021
• The service that was meant to be looking after Sara, at Surrey County Council, had 30% of posts unfilled.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 21 Dec. 2024
• Around 8 million jobs nationally are sitting unfilled right now — untapped capacity that companies could unleash more of with more workers from abroad, who are younger on average.
  — Eli Hager, ProPublica, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Feb 2025