How to Use unfinished business in a Sentence

unfinished business

noun

• There’s just one last bit of unfinished business to take care of first.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2023
• Stick close to home and take care of unfinished business.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2024
• The 60-year-old Harbaugh has unfinished business in the NFL.
  — Rob Maaddi, Baltimore Sun, 10 Feb. 2024
• There was always unfinished business: the next record, the next set design, the next tour.
  — Spin Staff, Spin, 2 Oct. 2023
• Walk and watch The site had a big crew of workers during the walk-through, and there’s plenty of unfinished business still to do.
  — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2023
• In this sense, the Iraq war remains unfinished business for the United States.
  — Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs, 17 Mar. 2023
• Hudson said that while the win was great, there’s still some unfinished business left.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 1 Mar. 2024
• But also brewing in the back of Mother’s Milk’s mind is unfinished business with the Boys.
  — Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• In a sense, the pro-Ouattara troops who swept southward this month from what had been their rebel strongholds in the north have completed the unfinished business of 2002.
  — Mike McGovern, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2011
• The stop is a bit of a victory lap, but could also be a reminder of unfinished business.
  — Chris Megerian and Seung Min Kim, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
• The lunar eclipse in Libra puts an end to unfinished business.
  — USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
• In this episode, Rebecca tries to solve some unfinished business with her mom.
  — Marianne Eloise, Vulture, 11 May 2024
• And that leaves Naeher with some unfinished business to attend to this summer.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2024
• Also, as much as anything, there was a sense Kershaw returned to the Dodgers because of unfinished business.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
• A lot of what’s going on now is viewed by Writers Guild leadership as taking care of unfinished business from three years ago.
  — Vulture, 2 May 2023
• There was likely a lot of murky, unfinished business between the mercenary leader and the Kremlin.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Aug. 2023
• The moon opposing Mercury retrograde can put a lot of unfinished business on your plate.
  — USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
• While their offers or commitments show their futures are bright, there is still unfinished business before their time in the program is up.
  — Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas News, 7 Aug. 2023
• People are focusing on some of the unfinished business.
  — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 10 Nov. 2023
• By 2018, a nagging sense of unfinished business prompted her to start competing again.
  — Talia Barrington, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2024
• On unfinished business: There’s been unfinished business for a while, man.
  — Michael Nowels, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2024
• So what does the unfinished business look like for the seemingly untouchable Belgian?
  — Aleks Klosok, CNN, 12 Aug. 2024
• And depending on how the Mercury fare in this 2024 playoff run, there could be some unfinished business for a team that had title aspirations.
  — Shane Young, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
• Runyon: As a mentor once told me, there will always be unfinished business.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2023
• Still, like Danny and Roberta’s bond, the production is unfinished business.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• Paul McCartney may be the only person on Earth who believes the Beatles have any unfinished business in 2023.
  — Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• Most of those nominees have not yet been confirmed, leaving unfinished business for the state Senate and governor.
  — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
• Which is another way of saying he's got unfinished business.
  — Erik Adams, Chron, 10 Mar. 2023
• Matthew Boyd returns to Tigers with 'unfinished business' in more ways than one Boyd underwent left flexor tendon surgery in September 2021, so this marks his second arm surgery within the last two years.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2023
• The will dispute, however, has been unfinished business.
  — CBS News, 12 July 2023

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024