How to Use unrewarded in a Sentence

unrewarded

adjective
  • Your journey may not look the same as someone else’s, but hard work does not go unrewarded.
    David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 6 June 2020
  • Much of his work, of course, has gone unrewarded, mostly because of poor offense.
    David Waldstein, New York Times, 24 June 2018
  • Kempf’s good deed did not go unrewarded; as a token of gratitude, the man who lost his phone bought him the video of the memorable roller coaster ride.
    Cady Lang, Time, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Macron, who has bent over backwards to flatter and placate Trump, has found his efforts unrewarded.
    Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 8 June 2018
  • In practice, overtime frequently goes unrewarded, according to workers in their 20s and 30s who spoke to The Post.
    Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
  • But the Frenchman’s efforts on open stretches of road exposed to wind were left unrewarded and he was ultimately swallowed up as the final sprint took shape.
    John Leicester, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2019
  • Congress approved a measure to ensure that their labors didn’t go unrewarded.
    Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Aug. 2017
  • If women are bogged down with many extra hours of unrewarded work, their advancement and salaries stall, and they are left disillusioned—and at risk for leaving.
    Linda Babcock, WSJ, 19 May 2022
  • Could this be because cast points were awarded to actors whose names resonated in 2018, while stars of Januaries past went unrewarded?
    Vulture, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The Bills’ faith in a pair of rookies goes unrewarded, Josh Allen falls back to earth, and aging acquisitions fail to make a difference for an ineffective pass rush.
    Brett Knight, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • John Legend is definitely a man of many talents, and his skills haven't gone unnoticed—or unrewarded.
    Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 18 Mar. 2019
  • Seattle baseball fans possess two traits in abundance: dogged, unrewarded loyalty for the Mariners and the sports version of post-traumatic stress syndrome.
    Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 25 July 2022
  • Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
    John Jennings, Forbes, 1 July 2022
  • Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
    Steve Jagler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2018
  • As long as your work furthers the mission, no failure in behavior, no error in reporting or editing, no corruption of the truth or the evidence will go unrewarded.
    Gerard Baker, WSJ, 14 June 2021
  • His influence on Sunday’s matchup didn’t go unrewarded though.
    Andy Yamashita, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Nov. 2021
  • There is nothing more demoralizing to a team working on a difficult project than to see good work go unnoticed or unrewarded.
    Dave Hart, Forbes, 29 June 2022
  • In this capacity his age would become a boon, a testament to his long and often unrewarded dedication to a broader cause.
    Sarah Jones, New Republic, 19 June 2017
  • South American fans traveled to Russia in great numbers but their journeys largely went unrewarded.
    Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 7 July 2018
  • In the long years of Nazi assault and occupation, resistance was often a lonely and certainly unrewarded vocation.
    Sonia Purnell, Twin Cities, 6 June 2019
  • His moment was by now virtually forgotten—and unlike Ms. Harris’s, fated to go unrewarded.
    Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 10 July 2019
  • McNally respected Hernandez’s modesty, but felt his heroism shouldn’t go unrewarded and thus submitted his name for the distinguished service award, Fitzgerald said.
    Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 8 July 2019
  • Surveys suggest that the problem of getting promotable work assignments rather than unrewarded ones is particularly severe for women of color.
    Linda Babcock, WSJ, 19 May 2022
  • Hedgehogs showed a different pattern of interactions with unrewarded nesting bird odors.
    Grrlscientist, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • And one’s looking, despite those inventive prototypes, is too often unrewarded.
    Laura Jacobs, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Moreover, the governor’s unabashed enthusiasm for Uber’s self-driving program didn’t go unrewarded.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 28 Mar. 2018
  • His boundless energy and industrious playing style went largely unrewarded on the international stage, however, with competition for places in Italy's midfield during the mid to late 1990s.
    SI.com, 18 June 2019
  • Peru manager Ricardo Gareca paid tribute to their fans and their opponents after a positive performance went unrewarded in defeat to Denmark.
    SI.com, 17 June 2018
  • But Felder is a savvy politician, and effectively delivering the Republicans the majority probably won’t go unrewarded.
    Jen Kirby, Vox, 24 Apr. 2018
  • But admirers of the director’s high-intensity, muscular filmmaking will not go unrewarded.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2023

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