How to Use unforced in a Sentence

unforced

adjective

• Even so, the bank has made a few unforced errors along the way.
  — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 31 May 2019
• To get the job done against Louisville, IU must rid its unforced errors.
  — Zion Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Sep. 2023
• Throughout the match, the crowd buoyed Williams along, through a shaky start and unforced errors.
  — Diane Herbst, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2022
• The game would not have been that close if not for the laughable unforced errors.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2022
• By the end of the second set, Djokovic had racked up 30 unforced errors to Nadal’s six in the first two sets alone.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2020
• The Swiss star made 31 unforced errors; Hurkacz made just 12.
  — John Sinnott, CNN, 7 July 2021
• Djokovic had just nine unforced errors in the match, compared to 28 by Nadal.
  — Tom Perrotta, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2019
• In the second set, Gauff broke Swiatek in the first game, thanks to four unforced errors by Swiatek and held serve in the second.
  — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 4 June 2022
• Putting shame aside at the beach My decades-long exile from the sand now feels like an unforced error.
  — Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2024
• What the Ducks cannot afford at this point are unforced errors.
  — oregonlive, 9 Oct. 2021
• Thanks to Daniels, her lawyer and an unforced error by Sanders, the story Trump has tried so hard to squelch is out.
  — Eugene Robinson, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Mar. 2018
• That’s because Ostapenko kept missing, to the tune of 10 unforced errors in that span alone.
  — Howard Fendrich, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
• That's because Ostapenko kept missing, to the tune of 10 unforced errors in that span alone.
  — CBS News, 5 Sep. 2023
• Djokovic made just one unforced error in the entire set.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 18 Feb. 2021
• Their unforced errors, and the turnovers that resulted from them, had to stop.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2020
• One measure of how off both were at the start: Of the first 23 points, more than half, 14, ended with unforced errors.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2021
• The unforced errors saw two more touchdowns called back for penalties (four in the past two weeks).
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 16 Sep. 2023
• Unforced errors allowed Muguruza to break Halep twice in the first three games of the second set to take a 3-0 lead.
  — Dave Clark, Cincinnati.com, 20 Aug. 2017
• By the third set, Williams was piling up unforced errors and running out of gas.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2022
• Still, the unforced error brought a lot of laughs on social media.
  — Dustin Nelson, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2024
• The Cardinals put the game out of reach in the sixth, thanks to an unforced error from Miami.
  — Wells Dusenbury, sun-sentinel.com, 11 June 2019
• Thiem locked up the third set and was much the better player in the fourth, making just two unforced errors, against 12 for Zverev.
  — Wayne Coffey, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2020
• Nadal hit 13 winners in the second set and made just one unforced error.
  — Tom Perrotta, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2017
• The way Margot plays that moment is so gentle and so unforced.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2023
• The process has a natural, unforced ease and a quiet sense of the miraculous.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 4 Nov. 2017
• Wimberly, Yachty rolls in like a Black cowboy in a way that feels unforced.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2023
• That was her 27th unforced error on the backhand side, part of a total of 56 miscues.
  — NBC News, 24 Jan. 2020
• Eckhart’s good, in an unforced, un-showy way, as is Luke Evans, who enlivens his scenes as Lt.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• Navarro’s unforced error count climbed upward, while Badosa saw more of her first serves find the mark.
  — Sam Joseph, CNN, 3 Sep. 2024
• But, more likely, both Walz and Vance will simply need to avoid memorable unforced errors that can be endlessly replayed.
  — Will Weissert, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024