dynamic
toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

unrequited
in a sentence

Show 3 more sentences
  • Unrequited love they can relate to.  (source)
  • Hassan slumps to the asphalt, his life of unrequited loyalty drifting from him like the windblown kites he used to chase.  (source)
    unrequited = unrewarded (not returned)
  • Of course, it is also possible that her unrequited love and the attendant despair sapped her of her powers; that can happen.  (source)
    unrequited = unreturned
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 8 word variations
  • If he did not think the struggle just, nothing on earth could "compensate [for] the loss of all my domestic happiness and requite me for the load of business which constantly presses upon and deprives me of every enjoyment."†  (source)
    requite = repay or return
    editor's notes: Today, unrequited is used much more commonly than forms of requite. You'll probably learn unrequited first. The prefix "un-" means not, so when it's not there, the meaning of unrequited is reversed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Was groundless, hopeless, unrequited obsession any way to waste the rest of my life?  (source)
    unrequited = unreturned
  • He gave her in requital of all things else which ye had taken from me.  (source)
    requital = return
  • Requited love, I should say, for I've loved my father fiercely my whole life, and it changed nothing.†  (source)
    Requited = repaid or returned
    editor's notes: Today, unrequited is used much more commonly than requited, so you'll probably learn unrequited first. The prefix "un-" means not, so when it's not there, the meaning of unrequited is reversed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Then is it not probable that this Englishman may be some one who, grateful for a kindness your father had shown him, and which he himself had forgotten, has taken this method of requiting the obligation?†  (source)
    requiting = repaying or returning
  • 460 Yet thus the God requites thee, cutting off All hope of thy return—oh ancient sir!†  (source)
    requites = repays or returns
  • The coney was like honey And squealed our requitals.†  (source)
  • 20 So the carle that is young, by kindnesses rendered The friends of his father, with fees in abundance Must be able to earn that when age approacheth Eager companions aid him requitingly, When war assaults him serve him as liegemen: 25 By praise-worthy actions must honor be got 'Mong all of the races.†  (source)
  • May God requite me if I came here frying to meddle, to stir up rancor.†  (source)
    requite = repay or return
  • The entries were all about the books Andrew liked to read, dorky boy philosophizing, a couple of melancholy passages about an unrequited crush on some girl he never named.  (source)
    unrequited = not returned
▲ show less (of above)