How to Use unfulfilling in a Sentence

unfulfilling

adjective

• In turn, the work and the DEIB leader’s potential get shrunk to an unfulfilling small size.
  — Ebony Flake, Essence, 22 Dec. 2022
• The Irish offense didn’t offer much of a threat to try to break the tie in the final minute which led to the unfulfilling finish in a game mired by mistakes.
  — Tyler James, Indianapolis Star, 2 May 2020
• The fact is your body can only take being in an unfulfilling career for so long.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 20 Jan. 2022
• Asked his feeling about missing all but one meet of the 2020 track season, Hara called it unfulfilling.
  — Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Dec. 2020
• That’s a quick summation of why the last 25 years have been so unfulfilling for the organization and its fans.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 23 Jan. 2021
• Running away from a dreadful unfulfilling job is a quick way to end up in another one.
  — Adunola Adeshola, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
• For her part, Grace bristles at the presumption that her life is in any way unhappy or unfulfilling.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 18 Nov. 2021
• How could a celebration of the game’s best and most popular players turn out so bland and unfulfilling?
  — Ben Golliver, SI.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• For many, the past two years have prompted a shift in mindset and compelled people to leave unfulfilling jobs that don't align with their values or expectations.
  — Albert Galarza, Forbes, 24 June 2022
• Hassan Whiteside has kept himself busy since the Miami Heat’s season came an abrupt and unfulfilling end on April 12.
  — Manny Navarro, miamiherald, 4 June 2017
• Of course, working fewer hours at an unfulfilling job doesn’t change its basic nature.
  — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 17 June 2021
• In 2019, my boyfriend Jamie and I were both healing from long, unfulfilling marriages, with pending divorces that would leave us both, respectively, without a house.
  — T Kira Madden, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2021
• Others found the idea of returning to a toxic workplace or an unfulfilling job too awful to contemplate.
  — Renee Tarun, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
• Much of America may be quitting unfulfilling jobs as part of The Great Resignation.
  — Jeff Antaya, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2021
• The passion and relentlessness that pushes someone to succeed at the highest levels can make the real world feel so unfulfilling.
  — Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2022
• Nurses feel overworked, underpaid, and find their jobs unfulfilling and risky.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 5 Dec. 2021
• But trading Cole and McCutchen signals a determined emphasis on the future, and the end of an exciting but unfulfilling era.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2018
• Putting a household project on hold, dropping an unfulfilling obligation or simply cutting back on screen time leaves more room to soak up all that is summer in Wisconsin.
  — Ashleigh Spitza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 June 2018
• This creates a disconnect which for someone such as myself can feel unfulfilling.
  — Fred Minnick, Forbes, 5 July 2022
• So often, trying to eat healthier foods translates to eating boring or unfulfilling meals, which then further translates to a slippery slide back to bad habits.
  — Justin Ward, ExpressNews.com, 1 Jan. 2020
• Can a bland and unfulfilling life be redeemed and given meaning and an opportunity to find love in the midst of a violent and hopeless struggle against oppression?
  — courant.com, 7 Aug. 2020
• How many students have opted for safe, lucrative but unfulfilling careers merely to pay off a backbreaking debt load?
  — Aaron Rasmussen, WSJ, 15 July 2021
• Yet the narrator’s unfulfilling day job serves largely as context for a drifting parable on the gradations of privilege.
  — Washington Post, 9 July 2020
• At the same time, Michigan State’s undressing of Michigan feels like it’s only preparing us for another unfulfilling striptease like back in 2016.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 3 Nov. 2021
• Many jobs are very difficult, very boring, very unfulfilling.
  — Francesco Marconi, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018
• In the video trend crowding social media feeds since August, many are sharing their dull and unfulfilling view of the 9-to-5, a term many social media posts use more to describe a traditional career than the actual hours worked.
  — Katie Mogg, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2022
• Today, the company is just a shadow of its former self and a wholly unfulfilling experience.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2020
• After connecting with viewers over their unfulfilling white-collar jobs, Adkins offers them a way out.
  — Carly Olson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2021
• Here, Hepburn plays against her usual hyper, chipper manner, inviting us to commune with a soul torn between delight at her journey and regret at her unfulfilling life.
  — Peter Tonguette, WSJ, 13 July 2022
• But the rate — 2.7% in October — can mask the difficulty of a transition that sometimes takes years of working unfulfilling jobs, while forging a new identity and a new purpose beyond serving one’s country.
  — Ben Finley, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 14 Sep 2024