How to Use unspent in a Sentence

unspent

adjective
  • The same is true of the clawback of $30 billion in unspent Covid funds.
    The Editors, National Review, 30 May 2023
  • All the unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hallow of your chest.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2024
  • In fact, some of these dollars remain unspent by the state.
    Cole Lauterbach, Washington Examiner, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Most of the state’s unspent child care funds last year — more than $204 million — came from state preschool alone.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2023
  • All of that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest.
    Samantha Brodsky, Good Housekeeping, 14 June 2017
  • All of that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest.
    Samantha Brodsky, Good Housekeeping, 14 June 2017
  • If unspent, it will be used as one-time funding for the next fiscal year.
    oregonlive, 15 Dec. 2022
  • All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat and in that hollow part of your chest.
    Giovana Gelhoren, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2022
  • But the program never launched and the money sat unspent.
    oregonlive, 17 June 2020
  • The corkscrew design was a copy of gun worms used in the 1600s to remove unspent charges jammed in a musket’s barrel.
    Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • The aide said about $700 billion remains in unspent virus aid.
    Lisa Mascaro and Jonathan Lemire, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2021
  • Any unspent amount carries over to the next season on top of the minimum.
    New York Times, 24 July 2022
  • The next great unspent cash pile is at the Department of Health and Human Services.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 July 2021
  • The state has about $2 billion in rainy-day funds, and this year’s state budget left $560 million unspent.
    Emery P. Dalesio, The Seattle Times, 15 Oct. 2018
  • What about Softbank’s planned $200-billion vision fund, which is twice as large as the first, yet-unspent one?
    Polina Marinova, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The report said there is as much as $21 billion of unspent money tied up in unused and lost gift cards.
    Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 23 Feb. 2023
  • After that, states will be forced to tap unspent WIC money to keep the program going.
    Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Most of the unspent money was set aside or planned for a specific program or project.
    Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Most states still have unspent funds that will last several months.
    Robert Pear, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Kidd said these transfers are often done as a means to keep the unspent travel money.
    Anna Beahm, al.com, 21 June 2019
  • The foundation used the leftover unspent funds to purchase food from Hungry Jack and then gave out that food.
    Elliott Lapin, Houston Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2020
  • But while many have been helped, millions of dollars in aid remain unspent.
    Kate Santich, orlandosentinel.com, 6 July 2021
  • About $3 million set aside in the city's budget at the beginning of this year for drainage repairs has still gone unspent.
    Beau Evans, NOLA.com, 22 Aug. 2017
  • This debate concerned money from the unspent portion of the $4 billion that Congress sent to the state under the Cares Act.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2020
  • Others are burned out from too many long shifts, late nights and unspent vacation days.
    Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021
  • But Patrizia is not going to let that fortune go unspent.
    Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 25 Nov. 2021
  • The money was the unspent surplus for state government for the budget year that ended June 30.
    USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2019
  • After that, any unspent money must be returned to the U.S. Treasury.
    Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2021
  • Stellantis, the state, city and Invest Detroit reallocated unspent funds from the Mack development project to home repairs in response to feedback from the community, according to a news release.
    Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 13 Dec. 2024
  • In addition, legislative budget writers are going line by line through agency budgets to uncover unspent dollars and contemplating fiscal maneuvers to find additional revenue.
    John Frank, Axios, 2 Dec. 2024

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