How to Use unforgiving in a Sentence

unforgiving

adjective

• They are unforgiving of the smallest mistake.
• The fairway is uphill and unforgiving, with a bunker to the left and trees to the right.
  — Chris Chase, For The Win, 5 Apr. 2018
• For those of you whose hearts are unforgiving, sit down and shut up.
  — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2018
• The dry, dusty surface of Mars is a cold and unforgiving place.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2020
• Set to the same art style from that era, Cuphead is a run-and-gun game that’s unforgiving.
  — Tom Warren, The Verge, 26 Dec. 2018
• The strange thing is that, as the film unfolds, the beauty of the place grows ever more unforgiving.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2023
• The moral law is as blind and unforgiving as any law of nature.
  — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
• The terrain in this part of the park was steep and unforgiving, the ground knotted with tree roots and studded with rocks.
  — Washington Post, 30 June 2022
• The Moc Toe boot is a great counter to those unforgiving surfaces with its wedge style sole.
  — Tony Carrick, Field & Stream, 25 Oct. 2023
• In the unforgiving light of the dressing room, the weight of deciding among 15 pieces of black clothing crashed down on me.
  — Veronica Walsingham, Vox, 23 July 2019
• The dress is made from silk sateen, this fabric that’s very unforgiving.
  — Todd Plummer, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Jan. 2023
• And the ride is so unforgiving that even the softest mode is the very definition of head toss.
  — Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 28 Feb. 2023
• The consumer landscape is more unforgiving in a lot of ways.
  — Frederick Daso, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
• The 100-meter hurdles event is the most unforgiving race in women's track and field.
  — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 26 May 2022
• The deep ocean is one of the world’s most unforgiving environments with much of it still a mystery.
  — Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 24 June 2023
• The weather was cold and unforgiving my first day on the Kenai River flats.
  — Author: Christine Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2018
• For a 17-year-old far from home, baseball was now a full-time job in an unforgiving business, and there would be tough times ahead.
  — Dom Amore, courant.com, 4 June 2018
• That was there to set the stakes of how brutal and dangerous it’s going to be for these girls, how unforgiving.
  — Siobhan Burke, New York Times, 22 May 2018
• Humble swim coach Christopher Frey called the 50-yard freestyle race the most unforgiving of any stroke or distance.
  — Elliott Lapin, Houston Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2018
• And Resident Evil fans are the most unforgiving of all.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 16 July 2022
• Some people would be unforgiving of this weird bag of poo on my stomach.
  — Jasmine Haakerson As Told To Roni Jacobson, The Cut, 25 Jan. 2018
• But the biggest waves in the world are unforgiving, and do not always allow a surfer to paddle into them on a board.
  — Paul Theroux, Smithsonian, 27 June 2018
• But beneath all that bubbly surface, the rules of the game are ruthless and unforgiving.
  — Justin Chang Film Critic, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2020
• An unforgiving desert surrounds the camp and keeps them from leaving.
  — Alan Gratz, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2020
• Kids at that age, after all, can be an unforgiving lot.
  — Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• The balky plumbing, the leaky roofs and the unforgiving loan payments are invisible to you.
  — Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• For much of northern Europe, that was rye, which could stand up to the cold, wet and sometimes unforgiving climate.
  — Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2020
• People posed for photographs with SMF1 in the background and, in the unforgiving sun, trickled back to their cars.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
• Any football fan knows that the fall weather can rapidly change and sometimes be unforgiving.
  — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 2 Oct. 2024
• So far, the streaming marketplace has been unforgiving to all but the largest companies with the deepest vaults and biggest checkbooks.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024