How to Use unrequited in a Sentence

unrequited

adjective
  • In the film, set in the port town of Nantes, most loves sadly go unrequited.
    Carmel Dagan, Variety, 18 June 2024
  • The Cougars’ overtures to the Big 12 have gone unrequited for some time.
    Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 22 July 2021
  • This film is for all the pre-teens and young adults who go through unrequited love.
    Melanie Curry, ELLE, 7 May 2022
  • If the sailors didn’t respond, the nymphs would dash themselves on the rocks for unrequited love.
    Nina Burleigh, New York Times, 21 May 2024
  • For the 51-year-old Jones, this is almost a story of unrequited love, a date -- at last -- with the fighter that got away.
    Don Riddell, CNN, 27 Nov. 2020
  • And for Cub fans, 108 years of patience and unrequited love down to one moment.
    Time Staff, Time, 22 May 2017
  • Only two things stand in their way: The team's Judas, and the Eternal with an unrequited crush on him.
    Jeva Lange, The Week, 6 Nov. 2021
  • His book is an unrequited love story, told in fragments, through the lens of death.
    David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Colbert went on for a while about Trump's unrequited love for the Emmys.
    Danielle McNally, Marie Claire, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Here are just a few: Is unrequited love worth dying for?
    Benjamin Oreskes, latimes.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • And unlike love, there is no such thing as unrequited jeong.
    Charlotte Cho, Marie Claire, 29 June 2021
  • There's first love, unrequited love, crazy love and that very special, yet novel, rom-com kind of love.
    Usa Today Staff, USA TODAY, 7 May 2022
  • Attendees can drop their name into a hat to tell a 5-minute story of love gone bad, from the anguish of unrequited love to the sting of a breakup.
    al, 7 Feb. 2020
  • A chorus that sings of unrequited love, and ends up lingering in your head for days.
    Lisa Brown, Billboard, 26 June 2017
  • On paper, Agatha Christie staged some of the world’s grimmest homicides, springing from greed, rage and unrequited love.
    Anna Russell, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2017
  • Maysa has grown resigned, but Farouk remains in a poignant unrequited love affair with the dream.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Gone were the shiny, sparkly sequined gowns, the perfectly-coiffed hair and the syrupy, refined lyrics of unrequited love.
    Karu F. Daniels, NBC News, 5 Sep. 2017
  • On her first single of the year, Deb Fan ruminates over unrequited love, baring it all for the one who runs her mind.
    Cydney Lee, Billboard, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Kiyoko sings about the pain of unrequited love and how desperate the feeling of wanting someone who doesn’t want you back can be.
    Billboard, 30 June 2021
  • The ballerina’s life in the film takes a twist when an unrequited love turns fatal.
    Jessica Gelt, latimes.com, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower captures the earnestness (and angstiness) of young, unrequited love.
    Ineye Komonibo, Marie Claire, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Mayya is at her Singer sewing machine, dreaming of a love unrequited.
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Jenna is struggling with the angst of being 13, dealing with mean girls called the Six Chicks, and unrequited crushes.
    Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 7 Aug. 2023
  • This totally debunks the myth that women are the ones who *~fall so fast~* and spend all their time quoting songs about unrequited love.
    Mallory Schlossberg, Redbook, 20 Feb. 2017
  • The truth, though, is that an unrequited crush is not always unhealthy or unfair to its object.
    Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Oldies music about unrequited love and hot-and-heavy, back-seat romance warms the cool, early-morning air.
    BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Songwriter Eunsoo asks her best friend to stay with her for two weeks to help her write lyrics for a song about unrequited love.
    Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Poor George takes this as an encouragement, the woes of unrequited love.
    Kristin Vartan, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2019
  • This album was written about a period of unrequited love in my life.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Molly’s expertise is unrequited love — she’s lived through it 26 times.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 9 July 2024

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