How to Use unjust in a Sentence

unjust

adjective

• The convict received an unjust sentence.
• There are a lot of things that are going on that are unjust.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 28 Aug. 2023
• The world appears to be both unjust and to owe us something.
  — Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2022
• In the 60s, some psychedelics users hoped to change an unjust world in a radical way.
  — Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• Ian Fishback saw the world as cleaved between the just and unjust, the exemplary and the erring.
  — New York Times, 24 Nov. 2021
• But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just’s umbrella.
  — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2021
• And then some unjust God leaned, laughing, over the ramparts of heaven and dropped a black man in the midst.
  — Federico Finchelstein, The New Republic, 20 Aug. 2020
• Oregon State peaking right as it gets kicked to the curb feels unjust.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2023
• Our public lands have many kinds of unjust place names.
  — Bonnie McGill, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2022
• Much of the rest of Europe has slowly come around — at least to the idea that an unjust peace deal is no deal at all.
  — Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
• The student groups call the suspensions and bans unjust.
  — Gabriella Borter, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Nov. 2023
• Like Winston and John, Antigone has opposed an unjust state and will pay a price for it.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2022
• Where the accused is placed above the law, there is an unjust system of justice.
  — Lewis R. Gordon, The Conversation, 12 Apr. 2021
• The just man is happier than the unjust man, even when he is being tortured on the rack.
  — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
• To be Trump is to be accustomed to an unjust world unimpressed with your majesty.
  — Frank Bruni New York Times, Star Tribune, 30 Sep. 2020
• Sometimes, that chasm feels unfair, an unjust result of one or two plays gone the wrong way.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 4 Mar. 2023
• Women will become ungovernable as these unjust laws begin to be the law of the land in states across the country.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2022
• The students' actions and persistence led the school to agree that the selection was unjust.
  — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 11 June 2021
• The movie is a classic story about the little guy standing up against an unjust system.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Mar. 2023
• Alma Lopez, one of the eight women that form Mujeres Con Poder, said that the current process to install a speed bump is unjust.
  — Christian Robles, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2021
• The situation is unjust to sailors both on board and onshore.
  — The Economist, 20 June 2020
• Marks called the move an unjust and unfair double standard.
  — Richard Fowler, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• God didn't call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war as the war in Vietnam.
  — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 25 Aug. 2021
• Stranger still, the state Supreme Judicial Court ruled five years ago that the way these men were convicted was unjust, and abolished it.
  — Mark Arsenault, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2022
• This is an unjust and unstable structure, which will fall over.
  — Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 20 Nov. 2021
• When laws are unjust, when custom constricts, when institutions squeeze and shrink you, here, at last, is space to breathe and to be.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
• And what the arbiter says goes—there is no appeal if the decision is unjust or the proceedings unfair.
  — Cheri Bustos, ELLE, 12 Aug. 2022
• As the victim in this case, Mr. Henley has once again been victimized by this unjust outcome.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2024
• Despite staggering landscapes, the world is squalid and unjust.
  — Daniel Eagan, IndieWire, 20 Nov. 2024
• One source of efficacy—and hope—among activists is the knowledge that even when systems are unjust and harmful, most people are not.
  — Jamil Zaki, TIME, 23 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024